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ICC revamp : Big Three offer redraft to ICC as lobbying intensifies | Cricket News | Cricinfo ICC Site | ESPN Cricinfo This latest article says the proposal will be redrafted, but the gist of it will remain, and that there are LOTS of promises being thrown around ie. India will tour your...

Lots of guys have been missing the scoop and the ramp in the Big Bash. If you can't play it well, it just seems a great way to get yourself out...

I think Kumar will be decent, just the expectations are a bit too high for him at present. Give the lad a chance to settle into international cricket - he's only been playing for just over 1 year! Ishant on the other hand has had about 7 years to realise his talent...

Definitely agree. Australia got out of jail twice. Could be 3-2 England without much problem. If Ballance holds Finch at Melbourne and it could have been different as well. My XI for the series would be: Finch Warner Bell S.Marsh Morgan Buttler Faulkner Stokes Coulter-Nile Broad/McKay...

Yep I was thinking about the United Nations the other day, quite similar in many ways...but we'll leave that alone for the moment. Don't want to get too political about it. Will be interesting to see how other nations vote on this, whether it gets revised and redrafted etc. Unfortunately...

^Yep you're right, and lets be honest, even Zaheer has been very sporadic... How many Test series has he dominated in his 10+ years of Test cricket? You could count them on one hand. India's just a tough environment to breed fast bowlers, from the conditions of the grounds to the lack of...

I've liked NCNs death bowling for the most part. He's certainly been no worse than Faulkner. Morgan in particular seems to like Faulkner's bowling. And I'm a Paine man in the Paine/Wade battle. Paine's keeping is definitely ahead, and he pulled off a couple of really nice stumpings the...

The obsession with pace comes from knowing that IF the bowler can get it right, he will be very difficult to play. Mitchell Johnson has just been the latest example. REALLY good when he gets it right. Even when he was a bit more wayward, Johnson's Test record was still better than most...

^Was there a specific number of teams mentioned? I assumed it would be 8 so that none of the traditional powers would be booted out. And I'm guessing the 2nd tier matches certainly wouldn't be classed as Tests, they'd be called something else. I think you're right though, a smaller group in...

Well guess what, Ishant is out, Aaron is in! India must win now right??? :D I think India should just rotate the squad for the rest of the series, this is their chance to see new players in foreign conditions. But since the series is almost lost, I don't think India will. They'll play their...

Congrats England :clap Monkey off the back :D Australia at 3/160 at the 30 over mark should have had a better than 50% chance at winning in my view. But 3 important wickets in that 30-40 over period kinda sunk their chances. Glenn Maxwell give yourself an upper cut. Not too much of a one...

Well I'm the opposite to you :D Seems like Marsh is one of those guys where if he's: A) fit, and B) hitting the ball well, he's going to get picked. It's been that way for ODI squads since 2008, so it might as well happen for Tests too... While Marsh is obviously a gut feel by the...

I think this is the crux of the issue. The second tier would be heavy with teams filled with amateur cricketers. Amateurs need time off work just to play, let alone go on a tour. Therefore second tier teams would play less cricket, and would therefore find it hard to improve. If a top team...

Favourite unorthodox one at the moment is the off-side scoop. ie. instead of scooping over fine leg, you angle the bat the other way and it goes through the slips. Dan Christian played a beautiful one last week in the Big Bash. Just has that extra element of smugness to it :D

Want a new idea for rain interruptions? Instead of NZ resuming here, INDIA should start their innings... If this is one of those games where NZ bats 45 overs but India's innings can't get to 20 overs, its just been a waste of time. I reckon any team that has batted at least 20 overs, and has...

Heartily agree - preach it brother! :thumbs

Hard to beat a bouncer, my favourite delivery to see bowled. Although yes as Angry rightly points out, good length in the corridor of uncertainty is the 'best' ball to bowl.

It's one reason why I hate bowler limits...it neuters the captain tactically. He wants to save overs from his best bowlers for the end, or just in case he needs a partnership broken etc. T20 has also taught captains the habit of hiding their weakest bowlers. That's why Australia has been...

That's a nice schedule! Personally, I think a 4-5 year running points table is too long if you are going to market it as a championship, and bring the prize down to one month of play in that cycle. It's a lovely idea in theory, but teams fluctuate too much within that time frame ie. winning...

Just to kill some time during the boring middle overs of the ODI...:p Let's have a look at India's recent efforts with their pacemen Here's a list of Indian fast bowlers who have taken 10+ wickets in a series, at an average of less than 30 OUTSIDE Asia since 1990 ie. these are the amount of...