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Thanks one of good things about ENG ATM when picking this squad, you can very well and make cases for Plunkett, Woakes, Broad, Vince, Bairstow being picked. And yea I forgot Starc was ruled out, not sure If I can point out a certain replacement ATM - performances in Big Bash will decide that..

Was thinking how certain teams could line up and overall having a re-think it looks closer than i thought between SA/WI/AUS/NZ/ENG for IND although Ashwin/Jadeja/Misha might play & have wickets to suit I concur with previous point made that their batting is not deadly enough to maybe give the...

Hmm well I'm on the opposite regarding Ballance. Surprised he was picked because some serious technical flaws were exposed in Ashes & I'm not sure if he bats at # 5 if it will make a lot of difference vs what will be a better SA pace attack. I wouldn't have picked him & I see it another obvious...

Would be surprised if they don't cut it - have seen many pitches in AUS/NZ/SA/ENG look like that before a game and is cut before game one. Case in point was recent WI vs AUS test a few days before Hobart (although its not perfectly similar) - but come day 1 all that grass was gone. Adam...

Haroon Lorgat on developing more black players in South Africa | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo @stefan @Markkkkk @Rudolph

Growing poorer in the Big Three era | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo A lot the ICC's promises from the BIG 3 takeover are seemingly looking like hot air ATM.:facepalm

Yea that the thing, hawkeye founder Dr Paul Hawkins clearly has a good system here. These two articles are interesting Russell Jackson: Why ball-tracking still cannot be trusted | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo How Hawk-Eye won me over and why India should accept the use of DRS | Mike Selvey |...

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini expected to receive lengthy bans from football | Football | The Guardian

What do you Kiwis know of this bloke? Tim Wigmore profiles Hong Kong batsman Mark Chapman | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo @Chewie @Biggs @CG123 @BowringFC @riz7khan12 @Believe @IanG

As been argued before in original article or this thread Fixing DRS - World in Sport & Martin Crowe's articl from last year Martin Crowe: Why the BCCI won't be swayed by Richardson's DRS claims | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo when these decisions tend to happen ever so often, the predicted...

Marlon Samuels banned from bowling for 12 months | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo Like Hafeez, he should just stop trying to bowl and wasting the bio-mechanics experts time.

Well it doesn't necessary have to affect England schedule to be fair. I recall in 2010 when PAK came, ENG hosted BANG first, then AUS/PAK had their two tests afterwards, before the 4 tests series vs PAK. So I think there is a possibility that a IND/PAK 2 tests could be fit if ECB/BCCI/PAK can...

Just to clarify you said this: "BCCI signed an MoU to play Pakistan, but in the MoU, didn't commit to playing one in 2015 and no dates are laid down in the MoU itself." As i was showing you in FTP link, the first of the 6 series that BCCI told they will play against PAK between 2015-2023 is...

Another DRS/Umpires call fault from the just concluded WI vs AUS test - DRS ruling stumps players, pundits | cricket.com.au @PokerAce

Happy with England's group but not getting too worked up. Spain and Belgium the favourites for me @SpitfiresKent @Lee1981 @MasterBlaster76 @ste_mc_efc @StinkyBoHoon @ncfclee

Hard to put AUS in the favourites category since they don't have enough mystery spinners and their batting against spin is suspect. Hard to say anyone is really favourites however. For sure in home conditions IND will do well with Jadeja/Ashwin/Mishra likely to get surfaces that will suit. West...

Yea and given the laughable and ridiculous conflict of interests the Big 3 has created where the BCCI president is also ICC president - there is no independent ICC for PCB to even taken this case to. If they do this, BCCI was just not play them at all. Plus legally i think the BCCI would be...

I spoke to other posters in above posts above the non-bold part of these comment, so i'm a just address what in bold. No team in current MOU arrangement in FTP or in previous ICC mandated FTP every announces series dates/venues etc right way. So that point makes no sense. You just agree in...

@grkrama @talahayat Yes fellas, while I by no means profess to be an expert on the dynamics of tension of IND/PAK outside the world of cricket - when i said "Government drama's" I was indeed referencing that terrorism point you guys have mentioned here that like any person I would hear about...

So what would you call Mumbai 2004 then?