Matt Prior
The day witnessed a typical Test upheaval and an intriguing opening day’s game at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff for the first Ashes Test between Australia and England.
After the rather somber lunch, England found their able crisis men doing...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
England continued to dislodge the experienced pair at the crease who have been relentless since the exit of Phillip Hughes after lunch on day two of the first Ashes...
made popular 11 hr. ago
Shoaib Akhtar is planning yet another comeback, riding on the back of another controversy.
The Pakistan fast bowler has been through a string of...
made popular 13 hr. ago
John Buchanan may have criticized all those associated with Indian cricket, but he appears to have saved his choicest comments for a man considered arguably one of the...
made popular 13 hr. ago
The ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa, the next big extravaganza after the ICC World Twenty20 in England, has been preponed.
The ICC Champions Trophy has be...
made popular 13 hr. ago
The West Indies team for the first Test sounds like names that people have either not heard of or of those who were considered not good enough before.
...
made popular 13 hr. ago
The post lunch session allowed Australia to feel more robust, especially after the manner in which the England bowlers got away a bit from the Australian bowlers, in...
made popular 14 hr. ago
The man who is writing on the future of the game has a grouse with a man trying to determine that future.
John Buchanan, in his latest dissection, “The...
made popular 14 hr. ago
John Buchanan does not only deride Yuvraj Singh in his book, “The Future of Cricket: The Rise of Twenty20”. He also digs into Bhajji’s demons.
The...
made popular 15 hr. ago
John Buchanan has a funny way of showing he cares, or doesn’t. Now he becomes the latest Australian to release a book and not surprisingly it has very little respect...
made popular 15 hr. ago
England climbed back riding on the likes of their lower order, or rather bowlers, to pose a challenge for the Australians. Will it be enough?
Australia would...
made popular 15 hr. ago
Australia were the team breathing easy at the lunch break on the first day of the first Test at Cardiff as England slumped into a problem.
England’s sedate...
made popular Jul 8 2009
The West Indies cricket plunged further and deeper into controversy, this time as players threaten to boycott the home series against Bangladesh altogether.
...
made popular Jul 8 2009
Sourav Ganguly may have retired from international cricket in the home series against Australia last year but it has not stopped him from being headline news. Now he is...
made popular Jul 8 2009
Andrew Flintoff, England’s charismatic all rounder, is an angry man. But he is not angry at the England team or captain Andrew Strauss. Rather he is mad at himself,...
made popular Jul 8 2009
The last two Ashes series have been dramatic contradictions of each other and Australia, while retaining the Ashes, have something to prove again in England.
...
made popular Jul 8 2009
The first Ashes Test of 2009 got underway at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff with England electing to bat first.
The decision from England’s captain Andrew Strauss...
made popular Jul 8 2009
It was fitting that Rangana Herath took the final wicket of Abdur Rauf. After all it was the same bowler who won Sri Lanka a victory that did not seem possible...
made popular Jul 7 2009
It was almost too easy for the Rajasthan Royals after the final burst from England’s Dimitri Mascarenhas to finish off the innings as they beat Middlesex Panthers by...
made popular Jul 7 2009
If one believed Dominic Cork’s version of the groundsman’s dooms theory, rain should have washed away the match altogether. As it turned out, sunshine returned...
made popular Jul 6 2009
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
The England team virtually picked themselves as they played the warm up match against Warwickshire. The only exception - another Ashes man bites the dust as Steve...
made popular Jul 5 2009
The ECB announced their sixteen man squad for the pre Ashes camp. Not surprisingly, former England captain Michael Vaughan and fast bowler Steve Harmison find no place....
made popular Jun 24 2009
There was no comeback for the West Indies after Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara’s early heroics. Things panned out predictably and it came as no surprise that England...
made popular May 19 2009
England skipper, Andrew Strauss, could not have been a happier man. Named England’s Player of the Year, his team won the first Test against the West Indies at...
made popular May 14 2009
Andrew Strauss must consider himself unfortunate. After leading his team in the Tests and the ODIs in the West Indies, the England captain has been overlooked in the 30...
made popular Apr 7 2009
Little has gone England’s way. When they have put up huge totals, they have been matched by flair and consistency as West Indies drew level. Be it the Antigua...
made popular Mar 10 2009
England could not have asked for more audacious batting from the team after trailing 1-0 in the series. If day one clearly belonged to the skipper and his opening...
made popular Feb 28 2009
It must have been highly frustrating for England to have missed out on a victory by a single wicket at the ARG (Antigua Recreation Ground). West Indies though worked...
made popular Feb 26 2009
One had to see it to believe it! The crumbled cookie was not a pretty sight. The dancing West Indian team led by their skipper Chris Gayle were though.
The...
made popular Feb 9 2009
Here’s how England decided to win the fifth one day match. The half way recap, read it how you will.
With the series in the bag, Mahendra Singh Dhoni felt...
made popular Nov 26 2008
by Kartik Kannan
2-0 in India’s favour and it feels good being an Indian to see this scoreline. Two victories achieved batting England out of the game. ...
made popular Nov 18 2008
by Shreyas Bhide
On Saturday, curtains were drawn on the Stanford Super series
initiated by West Indian billionaire Allen Stanford.
Playing in front of...
made popular Nov 5 2008
While South Africa are still lingering over their disastrous one day series against England, the hosts have been over the moon and their direction has only been upwards...
made popular Sep 10 2008
South Africa suffered a major blow with Graeme Smith finally deciding his elbow had all done all it could. But the team now had to do without the skipper’s resources...
made popular Aug 29 2008
The last time these two met, South Africa won by a 4-1 margin. It was also the season that Kevin Pietersen was unleashed and it wrecked three centuries upon his country...
made popular Aug 21 2008
India took the honours on the first day of the final test against England at the Oval on Thursday by finishing the day at 316 for 4.It was hot sunny day at the Oval and...
made popular Aug 10 2007
It was again evident that West Indies has failed to fill the void created by Brian Lara’s retirement as the side crashed to a 79-run defeat in the first one dayer...
made popular Jul 2 2007
Matt Prior had a dream debut as the England cricketer became the first wicketkeeper to hit a century on his Test debut against the West Indies at Lord’s.
The...
made popular May 19 2007
Related Tags
Alastair Cook Andrew Flintoff Andrew Strauss Caribbean Chris Gayle Cricket cricket blog England Ian Bell India James Anderson Kevin Pietersen Paul Collingwood Ravi Bopara Ryan Sidebottom sports Steve Harmison Stuart Broad UK West Indies
Home

RSS










































