Sam Wells' inclusion in the New Zealand 13 for this week's test against Zimbabwe is further proof that the national side is no closed shop.Doug Bracewell and Dean Brownlie's selections late last year showed that coach/selector John…
Anshuman Gaekwad, the former India batsman, writes in DNA that Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir are not focusing enough on defence in Australia. Gaekwad writes about the extreme methods of preparation batsmen of his generation used to prepare for tours, and says that Sehwag, in particular, is not living up to his talent. Mohinder Amarnath, now a member of the national selection panel, told bowlers to bowl from halfway down the pitch. That’s how seriously he prepared for a foreign tour. And mind you, we trained with ‘real’ cricket balls….
After he was handed a ban in March 2010, Younis Khan’s Pakistan career seemed finished. He ditched the captaincy and walked out on Pakistan cricket, much like Shahid Afridi, and at one stage the PCB couldn’t locate him. Speaking to Osman Samiuddin in The National , Younis explains why he quit the captaincy in the first place, talks of his second coming as a batsman under Misbah-ul-Haq and his ambitions to revive Karachi’s club cricket scene. And so who knows who Younis Khan really is, other than those friends and…
Given the sport’s oldest format is being played in one of its newest and most high-spec venues, day 2 in Dubai was a strike back for the good old days, writes Paul Radley in the National. This England team live by the mantra that if you stand still you will be overtaken. Everything about their cricket is thoroughly modern, from their high-visibility, brilliant white kit, to their bleep test fielding drills with musical accompaniment. Their methods obviously do work. They are the world’s best side in an era in which…
Australia’s wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has admitted he is feeling drained by a summer in which his name has seldom been far away from debate about the composition of the national team
The Sri Lankan government has ordered a probe into the national cricket team's “crisis situation” after they fell to another defeat in their one-day series in South Africa, an official said Wednesday.
The Sri Lankan government has ordered a probe into the national cricket team's “crisis situation” after they fell to another defeat in their one-day series in South Africa, an official said Wednesday.
On deeper inspection, the more unsettling aspect of watching Pakistan over the past year – like the feeling, post-advertising, that what you’ve got is not what you were sold but will have to do – has not been their generally attritional, even dour approach. It has been that they have spun their way through it, writes Osman Samiuddin in the National. Only twice have spinners bowled more balls in a year than the last, once in 2000 and once in 1987, a year that belonged to the modest duo of…
On deeper inspection, the more unsettling aspect of watching Pakistan over the past year – like the feeling, post-advertising, that what you’ve got is not what you were sold but will have to do – has not been their generally attritional, even dour approach. It has been that they have spun their way through it, writes Osman Samiuddin in the National. Only twice have spinners bowled more balls in a year than the last, once in 2000 and once in 1987, a year that belonged to the modest duo of…
Nathan Lyon’s recall in place of a fast bowler will be the only change to Australia’s XI for the fourth Test against India at Adelaide Oval, the national selector John Inverarity has confirmed
