What is T20’s greatest effect? – Cricinfo Magazine
Cricket’s youngest format has ushered in profound change but how has it, we asked our jury, transformed the way the game is played?
MARCH 2016 Cricinfo Magazine
“I’m coming anyway” – By Jon Hotten
It was a throwaway remark from Brendon McCullum, made when he was giving a Sky Sports “Masterclass” to UK viewers, but as with Virender Sehwag’s irreducible and immortal “see ball, hit ball”, it is a line that has come to represent the root of a philosophy that has transformed batting, and the game.
McCullum was telling Nick Knight about his approach to playing spin in T20 cricket. He was standing in front of a set of yellow plastic stumps at the time, dressed in his New Zealand training kit and clutching a bat in his meaty paws. He scraped a crease line into the grass with his foot and then took block about 12 inches in front of it to demonstrate where he would stand as the spinner began his run-up. Continue reading →
The Politics of West Indies Cricket – by Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
Dr. Dhanpaul Narine
Kevin Pietersen’s book is a good place to start. His views are less about cricket and more about the politics of pettiness in English cricket.
After criticizing the state of English cricket Pietersen says, ‘you need stars if you want to grow your game.’ There is word that another star Shivnarine Chanderpaul is writing a book about his treatment by the cricket administration in the West Indies. When this book is published will we read about the politics of West Indies manipulative tactics?
Here is one for the purists: In November 2013 Dave Cameron, President of the West Indies Cricket Board, paid tribute to Shivnarine Chanderpaul for becoming the first West Indian to play in 150 Tests. Continue reading →
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Dire in Babylon- The sad decline of West Indies cricket
Dire in Babylon- The sad decline of West Indies cricket
PERHAPS no cricket team in history is as revered as the West Indies side of the 1980s. From 1980 to 1995, the team did not lose a single Test series. The Caribbean cocktail of ferocious fast bowling and aggressive batting resonated far beyond the field. “I have 5m West Indians depending on me to perform at my best so they can walk the streets and be proud,” Michael Holding (pictured), one of the greatest West Indian fast bowlers, recalled in “Fire in Babylon”, a new book on Caribbean cricket.
On September 30th, West Indies cricket hit a new low. For the first time ever, the side failed to qualify for the Champions Trophy, a one-day international (ODI) tournament played between the top eight ranked sides in the world. Two days earlier coach Phil Simmons had been suspended for expressing his disapproval with the team selected for the current ODI series in Sri Lanka. Continue reading →
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