I’m not a socialist. Nor am I a moralist. But, like most people, I can tell the basic difference between right and wrong. Unfortunately, it looks like the ECB, CA and the BCCI no longer can. I’m not going to pretend I know everything that goes on in the inner sanctums of the ICC. All I can do is form an opinion based on the little I know. Maybe my views are misplaced; maybe they’re not. But from what I’ve read and seen this week, the behaviour of the so-called ‘big three’ is nothing short of...
What does BCCI actually stand for?
Have you heard the news? According to the Daily Telegraph the BCCI has banned 30 English players from playing and practising in India following India’s humbling in the recent test series. At this point you probably think I’m joking. Surely a supposedly professional organisation, containing grown men, wouldn’t be so petty and, quite frankly, absurd? Well, I’m afraid not. The BCCI seems determined to make itself look ridiculous. At this point it’s a toss up whether the BCCI or the leadership of...
Tears on their Pilau – a post mortem of India’s test defeat to England
We received this very very serious submission via email earlier in the week. It discusses India’s test humiliation at the hand’s of Alastair Cook’s Barmy Army with intelligence, eloquence (and not a trace of sarcasm). It also prevents us from having to consider England’s abject showing in the T20 yesterday … something which will come as relief to Jade Dernbach, who seemed to be impersonating a blind muppet for most of the match. Anyway, over to you Mr James Hindle...
The countdown and the conundrum – day four at Nagpur
England 330. India 326-9 dec. England 161-3 Well you didn’t think we were going to breeze it, did you? Much as we’d have loved Kevin Pietersen to score a run a ball hundred and take the game away from India completely, it was never going to happen on this abysmal pitch. All things considered 161-3 was a pretty good effort – even if the cricket was duller than a dinner party involving Duncan Fletcher, Gordon Brown and Prince Charles. The fact of the matter is that we’re still edging – quite...