Chucking crackdown 20 years too late - Hair - Latest Cricket-News

Former international umpire Darrell Hair has said the ICC's crackdown on bowlers with suspect actions has come 20 years too late, and that the weakness of umpires over time to do anything about the issue has helped created a "generation of chuckers." Hair was the first umpire to call former Sri Lankan offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan for chucking during a Boxing Day

Miracle Moment In The Ashes

Edgbaston 1981 will always be the Salieri Test, an overshadowed masterpiece due to its proximity to the greatest of all time, a Magical Mystery Tour too often swamped by the wake of Headingley's Sgt Pepper. Yet in truth it is part of a double-header, two stunning Tests that serve to embellish the other, part of a pair of symbiotic matches central to the almost mythical aura of the 1981 Ashes.

With England having levelled the series at 1-1 in Leeds the nine days between Tests had not been quite as smooth as might be imagined. After arguably the greatest victory in Ashes history it seems almost perverse that England opted to drop a player and rejig the batting lineup but that they did.

10 Amazing Facts About Ashes That You Really Wanted To Know

IF you’re bleary-eyed reading this it probably means you’ve been up all night watching the Ashes, and as a diehard fan you’ll probably know everything about the England v Australia cricket series.

Our topic of the day is more for the casual observers or those people who just have to have some random bits of trivia at their disposal for when the right time comes to share.

For you we present 10 facts about The Ashes series you might not know

A Short History Of Ashes Between England v/s Australia

"In affectionate remembrance of English cricket which died at The Oval, 29th August, 1882. Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances, RIP. NB The body will be cremated and the Ashes taken to Australia."

Australia's first victory on English soil over the full strength of England, on August 29, 1882, inspired a young London journalist, Reginald Shirley Brooks, to write this mock "obituary''. It appeared in the Sporting Times.

Before England's defeat at The Oval, by seven runs, arrangements had already been made for the Hon. Ivo Bligh, afterwards Lord Darnley, to lead a team to Australia. Three weeks later they set out, now with the popular objective of recovering the Ashes. In the event, Australia won the first Test by nine wickets, but with England winning the next two it became generally accepted that they brought back the Ashes.

It was long believed that the real Ashes - a small urn thought to contain the ashes of a

shane warne caught in affair with liz hurley british model

Shane warne is one of the best leg spinners in the history of th e cricket world . so one stunning news came accros the world when

A witness told the paper: "They were so passionate they looked like honeymooners. It was electric."

In news it said would devastate Hurley's husband - Indian tycoon Arun Nayar, whom she

married in 2007 - the paper reported she and Warne were locked away together for up to 11

hours at a time.

Warne flew into London on Wednesday to shoot interviews for his new television chat show, which debuted on Channel Nine last month.

sachin tendulkar's 100th centuary

 Sachin tendulkar istreated like God by his fans, ended the long and tiring wait for his 100th international century on Friday at Dhaka's Shere Bangla National Stadium. 

Sachin hits 100th ton 

Tendulkar, the leading run scorer in the history of both Test and one-day cricket, achieved the most-coveted ton by taking a single off Shakib Al Hasan against Bangladesh in Asia Cup. Tendulkar's century came off 138 balls and was studded with 10 fours and a six

when hayden broke lara's record of 375

As we all know that mathew hayden was the fabolous player of all forms of the cricket game that is test cricket one day cricket and t20 cricket

 Australia batsman Matthew Hayden wiped Brian Lara's individual test scoring record from the history books with a spectacular innings of 380 in the first test against Zimbabwe yesterday.

Hayden's mammoth effort beat the previous mark of 375 set by West Indies batsman Lara against England in 1994.

The Queenslander pushed left-arm slow bowler Ray Price for a single to long on in the last over before the tea break to reach 376 before swinging his bat above his head in celebration and raising both hands to the cheers of the crowd

How lara made his 400 runs

Ever since Brian Lara stroked the single that broke the 400 runs Test barrier I have been searching for ways to put the feat into some kind of human perspective.

To be sure, it matches Roger Bannister's running of the sub-four-minute mile and probably surpasses it, given that to make that 400, Lara had to negotiate 582 deliveries: 267 dot balls, 139 singles, 24 twos, four threes, 43 boundaries, one five and four sixes.

That's one measure. Now here's another-when he stroked what was, perhaps, the most anticipated single in the whole 187-year history of cricket he became the only man EVER to have scored a century, 200, 300, 400 and 500 runs in first-class cricket and you'll note in passing that even here I am underplaying the enduring achievement in not detailing how many centuries, double centuries and triple centuries, the starkness of the initial statistic mind-boggling in itself.