Tag Archives: ICC

There aren’t too many cricketing things that give my morning walk partner Bobby more pleasure than a West Indies victory. At the top of the list is an India defeat, especially since Jay Shah became the ICC board chairman. So, it’s easy to understand why he has emphatically not been …

We’re on the brink of losing many things that have shaped us. Makes me wonder what we would select to put into a time capsule for the future. Memories can be brittle. We would need physical reminders in the future to imagine the world left behind. As we enter the …

“[…] It is clear that this Administration, having outsourced its decision-making with respect to relations with Venezuela, has not learnt from or are not aware of Henry Kissinger’s warning—though uttered in a different context—that: ‘it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.’ “[…] …

Boasting the most feared and most formidable bowling foursome in contemporary world cricket, Australia need no assistance to best Roston Chase’s now-struggling-to-find-their-feet West Indies. In the first match of the three-Test series, they won by 159 runs in Barbados last week, and they seemed to get it anyway. From an …

(Part 31.) Manager’s view. To bounce or not to bounce? That seemed to be one of the questions occupying the minds of cricket’s administrators in the week leading up to the first Men’s Cricket World Cup in 1975. So, with 20 days to go to the 50th anniversary of the …

(Part 24.) Hoping for the best. One of the things you can never accuse self-proclaimed “cricket people” of is humility. In their haughty ignorance they go on endlessly about it being the gentleman’s game—blissfully unaware, or pretending to be unaware, that the Victorian phrase has nothing to do with conduct …

“If India don’t win the Champions Trophy,” Bobby greeted me early on Friday morning, “it won’t be the ICC’s fault.” “After all,” he added before I could respond, “they have certainly done all they can to hand the Indians the trophy.” And Rohit Sharma’s side, always favourites to walk away …

“[…] The issue with players from the West Indies and any non-Big 3 cricket nation (India, Australia and England) having to choose between international and T20 league duty is not a CWI/PCB/NZC/SLC/CSA/ACB/ problem. It is a failure of the ICC’s international calendar fixtures! “Fifa was able to find a system …

“…a divided world that don’t need islands no more…” Can it be that Sir Clive Lloyd does not know fellow OCC awardee David Rudder’s pithy line from his 1988 Rally? Or is it that he simply wishes to ignore it? Or is the problem that Rudder’s 1996 Legacy prediction has …

Both of the semi-final matches in this T20 World Cup were demolitions. The match between Afghanistan and South Africa was actually painful to watch. Even if you supported the SA team, from a sporting perspective, it is unpleasant to look at that kind of devastation—like schoolchildren being trounced by adults. …

We lost the first 2024 ICC T20 World Cup Super Eight match against England in a clinical encounter that brought a harsh dose of reality. A match report here is not rele­vant. Suffice it to say that while the batters are more willing to take singles, there are still far …

“[…] When the IPL started back in 2008, it was a six-week tournament. The BCCI has since increased the official time span to eight weeks, but the true time is closer to 10 to 12 weeks. “[…] Despite all of that, the compensation package for the player’s home board has …