July 2006 News Archive

Commentary News Topic

Flat Tracks Hold Us Back

Despite the recent controversy surrounding the Sabina wicket, it is usually the sort of pitch that is good for cricket, offering bounce and movement early on, followed by a docile period, and finally crumbling into a good spinning wicket. A team with a balanced attack and batsmen with good technique who are willing to apply themselves should expect to win matches there, and that is what happened last weekend.

Vaneisa Baksh News Topic

Sweet Bowlers

Freddie Trueman died on Saturday at 75.

The English fast bowler of Yorkshire stock had stirred a great deal of emotion during the unpleasant tour of 1954. Trueman was known for his big mouth and hot temper: Fiery Fred, Tempestuous Trueman they called him. He carried such blame for the hostility on that tour, that Frank Worrell devoted an entire chapter in his book, Cricket Punch to his defence.