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Cricketers, Cricket and Mortality

November 21, 2010 by

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Is mortality a curse? Or, is it merely an acceptance that all good things must end? Successful sportspersons always spend the first three-fourths of their careers learning, improving and challenging themselves and eventually growing strength to strength, to be more capable. And, then suddenly for no fault of theirs, sometimes their body gives up on […]

Cricket as a mirror of life

November 9, 2010 by

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At the time of writing, two stories, about two very different men, are dominating the international cricket media: Herschelle Gibbs autobiography and Zulqarnain Haider’s application for asylum in the UK. They are nicely summarised in the ever-excellent Andy Bull’s The Spin column of November 9. The common element between these two stories are that they […]

MTN40 player substitution signals the death of the allrounder

November 8, 2010 by

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For the last two hundred and fifty odd years cricket has been played between two teams of eleven players, pretty standard stuff. Last year the MTN40 introduced the concept of 12 ‘roving’ players, where the 12th man could essentially be a full replacement. This was an innovative idea, and sound in principle. I agreed that […]

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