Kim Hughes has scored 88% of his career runs in tough batting conditions
Mervyn Westfield’s conviction is an important breakthrough in the fight against cricket corruption, writes Nick Hoult in the Telegraph. He also notes how easily the wrong-doings could have slipped through unnoticed. Westfield’s crimes would probably have remained undetected if it had not been for his inability to keep his secret quiet. There was no fake Sheikh or £150,000 tabloid sting in this case. Westfield confided in a team-mate, who followed anti-corruption guidelines issued to all cricketers in England and reported the matter to the management at Essex….
Glenn Turner, writing for Fairfax NZ News, says, given World Cups’ all-important status, if New Zealand decide they want to finally progress past the semi-finals in 2015, planning needs to begin with the imminent Zimbabwe series. My advice to players is, choose your counsel carefully, open your mind to learning, and be personally responsible for your own development and performance. There’s a need to choose emerging players to find out who has the required talent to be persevered with. This work should start immediately. At the same time it would…
MC High School has a remarkable record when it comes to Pakistan's most important Olympic sport, hockey. Over the last 40 years, it has produced no less than 57 international hockey players, …
The United States continues military dialogue with Pakistan despite recent serious setbacks, because the US-Pakistani relationship is very important, Pentagon spokesman George Little has said.
Shane Bond in the Hamilton Test match in 2002 when 36 wickets fell for just 507 runs
Graeme Smith reveals how the wicked witch was to blame for South Africa’s loss to Sri Lanka in Durban
Anyone who thinks a cricketer’s life is easy and slow-paced should ask Mushtaq Ahmed. The former Pakistan leggie, currently a part of the England support staff, is now busy organising his wedding banquet – 18 years after he got married! Mushy, as he’s known, married Uzma Jabeen in December 1993 but was soon involved in a whirlwind of cricket, beginning with a home series against Zimbabwe. Four children later, it seems, they’ve finally decided, on the advice of family elders, to have the walima, an important part of Islamic wedding…
WASHINGTON: Japan s foreign minister said Monday that his country would not stop imports of Iranian oil, striking
Experts world over are slamming national boards for scheduling Twenty20 bashes before important Test series. If the scheduling of the Big Bash League in Australia ahead of the India Tests isn’t questionable enough, the scene isn’t very different down in New Zealand, writes Dylan Cleaver in New Zealand Herald. The truncated format has always had its detractors, most things that are new and popular come with naysayers. The venom is more pointed this time, aimed at national boards who have succumbed to its commercial appeal at the cost of the…