* What Carl Hooper said: I have absolutely nothing to add to the toss controversy thrown in the air by my former team-mate Michael Holding. His comments are not even worth a reaction. The toss is a matter between the two captains and the match referee and they don’t have a confusion on the issue. […]

In his first person column for PTI, West Indies skipper Carl Hooper says it’s unfair to pin the blame for the sixth ODI loss on openers Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds. “(They have been such a force in this one-day series that it is easy to blame our batting debacle on their failure…But a […]

Here’s an update to the story I posted the other day about the French claiming they invented the game of cricket.
Well, an American profession has come out to bat for England, claiming his research had narrowed cricket’s origins down to the south-east of England, especially Kent and Sussex, where it was played in […]

* Aussies Cut Back on W.I Tours
The Australian Cricket Board has announced that England will be the only country to maintain a full five-Test series in Australia. The other side who had a full series, West Indies, will only play three Tests when they next tour. India, whose presence attracts considerable commercial interest, will play […]

Who invented cricket?

** Were bookies behind Rajkot fiasco?
“A regular gambler in Ahmedabad, who was impressed with the high stakes that the bookies were offering for an India win, said he wanted to put more money while Sourav and Sehwag were blazing away but was told that the bookie had shut shop.”
** More Than Meets The Eye?
“I […]

Aussie skipper Steve Waugh believes Matthew Hayden might leave Don Bradman in the shade, in the context of individual scores at least. Waugh makes a strong case that the Hayden is the only player capable of breaking not only Bradman’s top score of 334 but Brian Lara’s world record of 375.

This tabloid story makes the case that the Aussies should get the trophy for ruling the art of ’sledging’.
Some highlights:
* As Geoffrey Boycott, currently battling throat cancer, walked out for his England debut at Trent Bridge in 1964 wearing glasses before his conversion to contact lenses, Australia captain Bobby Simpson’s advice to opening bowler Graham […]

From fires to bottle-throwing, the first ODI between West Indies was worth losing sleep over, especially the last-over heroics from Sarwan. Here’s an BBC Sport audio interview (RealPlayer) with Harsha Bhogle. While Hooper argued that the crowd-induced interruption affected his team’s run chase, CricInfo’s detailed coverage focused on the coming of age […]

Despite positive signs in the last test against India, veteran columnist Tony Becca believes the West Indies have not yet turned the corner. Although their batsmen played well, at times brilliantly, against some good bowling in Kolkata, the real test was in Mumbai and Chennai and they failed. The other doyen, Tony Cozier, […]

Dorian Bryan’s latest column takes a hard look at the Marlon Samuels breaking-curfew-almost-getting-expelled mess but seems to suggest that our exclusive report might not be totally accurate. “If the report has merit, the implications for West Indies cricket are serious. If the report is accurate, then indiscipline has struck again, and this time […]