Kudos to blind cricketers
Inspiration sometimes comes from areas we least expect. I learnt that lesson again recently at the YMPC ground on Beckles Road, St Michael.A couple Saturdays ago I went there to get some insight into blind…
Wellington girls' team on tour in South Africa
Fourteen 13-16-year-old Wellington girls are on a two-week tour of South Africa.All the players have been representative cricket players for either Wellington or Hutt Valley and are having a six-match tour, hosted by the Western…
Gough limps out of attack with hamstring problem
Darren Gough limped off with a leg injury early in Yorkshire's National League match against Essex at Headingley today. After only one ball of his fourth over Gough left the field, waving to the crowd.…
Shows no working, gives no right of reply
Transparency, accountability, relevance. The International Cricket Council claimed to stand for all this and more when Malcolm Speed came aboard as their new chief executive in July 2001. But today, in a dozy corner of…
Karachi 'safe' for South Africa, according to Pakistan Board
The port city of Karachi, which was hit last year by terror attacks, will stage a one-day international and a Test match when South Africa tour Pakistan in September, according to Rameez Raja, the chief…
ICC threatens to withdraw funding plans to Kenya
Taking a no-nonsense stand, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has threatened to cancel plans to fund cricket in Kenya if the Kenyan Cricket Association (KCA) does not begin league cricket in Nairobi by early July.…
SPCL Week13 – Rain wipes out complete programme
Heavy rain washed out Saturday's entire ECB Southern Electric Premier League programme.The top of the table clash between unbeaten Division 1 leaders BAT Sports and Bashley (Rydal) was among the three matches to be called…
Boost for National Cricket Museum at Basin Reserve
Wellington's National Cricket Museum now has a full-time curator in self-confessed cricket nut David Mealing. His appointment has an added bonus in that his vocation has always been as a museum curator.Mealing will give the…
New Zealand looking for advances from new analysis system
New Zealand Cricket video analyst Zach Hitchcock operates the systemFurther advances have been made in New Zealand Cricket's computer-oriented match monitoring database and some significant advantages in technical analysis seem assured.NZC's video analyst Zach Hitchcock,…
Klusener case goes to arbitration
Lance Klusener's complaint against the United Cricket Board will go for arbitration in November. Klusener claimed unfair dismissal after the UCB failed to grant him a contract earlier this year.According to Klusener, the UCB had…