Post from Not Cricket
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 9:44 am
Read more: Cricket, India, nagpur, South Africa, South Africa in India 2010, Test cricket, Wriddhiman Saha (add tags)

One has just started reading ' The Picador Book of Cricket ', edited by Ramchandra Guha and more on the book later. But it recounts an extremely funny incident/ anecdote that one has no choice but to narrate it. The little Pakistani's (Hanif…(read more)

Post from Wicket to Wicket
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 8:07 pm
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“We believe that the model of bi lateral ad hoc series that have been cricket’s structure for the past century (and again from 2012-2020) is fast becoming an outdated model, and will be unable to cater for the changing cricket landscape,

Post from Wicket to Wicket
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 9:26 am
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The idea of a Test championship appears to have become the topic de jour, with the respected writer Dileep Premachandran writing a piece in today’s Guardian that follows on from Michael Atherton’s recent piece in The Times.Whereas Atherton’s piece was …

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Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 11:45 pm
Read more: Mike Atherton, Test cricket (add tags)

The time is right for a World Test Championship. To that end, MCC’s World Cricket Committee (of which I am a member) has been meeting the ICC’s Cricket Committee this week in Dubai to persuade them of the merits of a championship to start immedi…