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I am eagerly waiting to see the match between chennai super kings and mumbai india..
i do support for chennai super king (dhoni's side) even though i lik sachin (MI)...

On cricinfo.com you can read a delighftul new interview with Frank Tyson. He would be something like 83 years old, but in the included pic on the story page he and his wife still look in good shape.

He roams over many topics, the old...

I cant understand why ireland cricket team is so behind in international level, the team is good and very enable to beat any team in any place at any time, but why ICC not giving value which the team deserve, why icc not giving more...

The IPL season is here, it goes on for 2 months. 2 months of non stop T20 action.I feel the IPL is over-rated and is actually ruining the whole game. Imagine test matches ending in 3 days!!T20 has changed the whole concept of cricket...

So when my pals asked me to hang out on a very special Pakistan match day, I denied. Ever since that my love for the Pakistan team has been exposed and on the other hand, I was being judged. “Thou should not love them after being a...

People have questioned me a lot but it’s true that Pakistan has been my favorite team all through last 4-5 years. It’s not exactly the team that someone chooses to support, especially when you’re not a Pakistani. I even don’t...

As all of you cricket fans will already know, the former England captain died a couple of weeks ago of a massive heart attack following surgery to remove a cancer in his lung.

His family name is taken by a family in my novel The...

1.hashim amla
2.virat kohli
3.michel clarke
4.alester cook
5.naser jamshad

The former South African test fast bowler Neil Adcock has died aged 81. He was suffering from cancer and as happens so often pneumonia got him in the end.
From the early 1950s through 1962, I think it was, he played 26 tests, taking 104...

Ron Archer is one of cricket's great losses.
After debuting for Australia at 20, playing 19 tests, he was finished at only 23. Done in by irrepairable cruciate ligament damage before sports medicine had ever heard of cruciate ligaments...

My novel The Theory of Relativity - the one with the cricket theme - has received its first reader's comments.

The book is "very good", says the reader. Some great incidental stuff too, he adds - "amongst the many gems, cricket and...

My novel The Theory of Relativity was published back in May of this year (2012) on amazon Kindle Direct Publishing as an ebook.

It is listed for sale there for 7 USD.

Though you would not know from the title, this book has cricket as...

I have now given you a week's worth of favourite cricketers. One list of 5 for each of 7 days.
I have tried to show how I was baffled by this issue of picking just 5. Gawd, I thought, I have so many favourites. Role models many of them...

This time one final indulgence: Queenslanders all.

1. Ken Mackay who played 37 tests for Australia in the Hassett - Benaud era. For Queensland the former test allrounder played over 200 games, averaging 45 with the bat (14 centuries...

Test captains who never were, but in my opinion had the potential to make great test captains. I name Australians only, as I am not as familiar with the politics and political personalities active in other countries.
1. Keith Miller
2...

My 5 favourite test captains:

1. Handsome Dave Gregory (Australia)

2. Ian Chappell (Australia)

3. sir Frank Worrell (West Indies)

4. Richie Benaud (Australia)

5. Anil Kumble (India)

Now, the turn of some wonderful batsmen.

1. Victor Trumper (Australia)

2. Denis Compton (England)

3. George Headley (West Indies)

4. Neil Harvey (Australia)

5. sir Vivian Richards (West Indies, Antigua)

Some great players among...

Back to the seam bowlers. Where my true heart lies. Here's a favourite 5:

1. Brian Statham (England)

2. Frank Tyson (England)

3. Andy Roberts (West Indies, Antigua)

4. Vincent van der Byl (South Africa, but sadly never played a test...

Here's another favourite 5, just to keep you guessing.

1. sir Frank Worrell (West Indies, Barbados)

2. sir Garry Sobers (West Indies, Barbados)

3. Eddie Barlow (South Africa)

4. Doug Walters (Australia)

5. Virender Sehwag (India...

I won't go into details, as this is a thread for cricket afficiandos so you no doubt know them all already. (if not just search their profiles on cricinfo.com or ask in a comment below)

1. Graham McKenzie (Australia)

2. Alan Davidson...