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June03

How the IPL Was Won

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A look at what made the cheap plonk team of the IPL into champagne winners.

May15

Andrew Flintoff: Underrated

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If all had gone well, we would have seen the return of Andrew Flintoff to England’s Test team today. We’ve read quite a lot about Flintoff lately, and indeed over the past year during the time he’s been out of Test match action. He’s copped a fair bit of criticism since the end of the 2006/07 Ashes, and we will now look at how fair, or not, this criticism is.

May14

What if…..?

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What if the IPL was held 10 years ago? Who would the top players be and who would they play for? Part I of this article does a bit of inverse crystal ball gazing.

April29

BCCI Sledging Hypocrisy

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The great game of cricket has been subject to many changes in its glorious history and none more so than in the past ten years.

Technology is now playing its part to put the home viewer in “the best seat in the house”. Playing schedules have become far more demanding on the players; some rule changes have been implemented in all forms of the game to help keep matches as appealing as possible, and to help keep the players on the park playing when there is rain or poor light delays.

April18

Growing Unrest

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Tension is growing between players and cricket administrators and without a creative, mutually-agreeable solution, players may take matters into their own hands.

April09

Selector Impatience Plagues Black Caps

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New Zealand are set to embark on what will be a fascinating return tour of England. While the tour itself doesn’t start for approximately three weeks, there has already been much discussion relating to it, particularly the makeup of NZ’s Test squad.