The Lahore run-fest, and a flurry of sixes
Did the run-filled Lahore Test have the highest average for each wicket of any match?
View ArticleLogos, fish, bats ... and shower action
Martin Williamson looks back on the week ending March 19, 2006
View ArticleDean Jones sacked after 'terrorist' remark
Dean Jones, the former Australia Test batsman turned TV commentator, has been sacked by his employers, Ten Sports, after calling Hashim Amla a 'terrorist' on live television during the fourth day's...
View ArticleJones's comment was an off-air joke
Dean Jones made the remark in jest to fellow commentators unaware that the feed was live, Cricinfo has learned
View ArticleCommentators react to Jones's gaffe
The reactions to Dean Jones's 'terrorist' remark towards Hashim Amla have come thick and fast not only from South African fans, but from the commentators' box as well
View ArticleBorder stands by Jones
Allan Border believes Dean Jones has already been punished enough for his on-air description of South Africa's Hashim Amla as a "terrorist"
View Article'Is the microphone live?'
Dean Jones's recent on-air gaffe about Hashim Amla was not the first time a player or commentator has said something on-air they have instantly regretted, and nor will it be the last
View Article'It was such a mammoth innings'
Dean Jones' life-threatening, career-changing 210 was the greatest individual performance of the second Tied Test, which occurred in almost suffocating heat at Madras in 1986
View ArticleDean Jones returns to the microphone
Dean Jones, the former Australia batsman turned commentator, will return to the microphone after being sacked last month for an offensive remark he made while commentating on the 2nd Test between Sri...
View ArticleMartyn positive but struggling
Damien Martyn desperately needs a big score in the third Test to rescue his career, according to Mark Waugh
View ArticleJones slams players over pitch complaints
Dean Jones has warned the Australia team not to concern themselves with the state of the country's Test pitches
View ArticleSteve Waugh captains greatest XI
Steve Waugh has been named captain of Australia's greatest ODI team at the celebration of one-day cricket in Sydney
View ArticleCauses celebres
When selectors make mistakes or leave out heroes, the press and public love to make a song and dance about it. Steve Pittard selects his favourite ignored men
View ArticlePlayers happy Zimbabwe tour axed
Several senior Australia players have expressed their relief that the decision on whether to tour Zimbabwe was taken out of their hands
View ArticleDean Jones keen to sign stars to Indian Cricket League
Dean Jones, the Indian Cricket League's operations manager, said the organisers of the new Twenty20 competition had drawn up a "hit list" of current and former players they hoped to sign up
View ArticleFleming approached by Indian league
Stephen Fleming has been asked to captain a team in the breakaway Indian Cricket League and could give up his international career to do so, according to an Australian newspaper
View ArticleWarne and McGrath set to join ICL: Kapil
The breakaway Indian Cricket League (ICL) seems to be gaining momentum with marquee names like Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath most likely to join Brian Lara for the inaugural multi-million dollar...
View ArticlePonting: ICL may lure cricketers into early retirement
Ricky Ponting has hit out at the proposed Indian Cricket League (ICL), saying the million-dollar series threatens to tempt ageing cricketers into early retirement while luring youngsters away from...
View Article'Slim' chance of Warne joining ICL
Shane Warne's manager says the legspinner's chances of joining the Indian Cricket League are "reasonably slim"
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