England-Jai Ho!!!

Finally that happened what most were praying
to save test cricket.ICC chief David Morgan
will might not think of any new cultivation
to save test cricket.

There are around 9 ways in which England would
have won the Ashes Series(If you analyse from
probability point of view).But finally the
truth is England have won the series with 2-1
lead.There were fans who anticipated the fate
of the series and told that England would win.
Before the series most fans would have thought
about the fate and and have declared their
obvious result of Australia winning the series.They
did not think toward the extreme cases.

After this series Andrew Flintoff will not
play Test matches anymore and try to concentrate
on big IPL contracts.

Many wanted to see England as winner of this Ashes
series because they wanted some variation that is the
need of current cricket.Cricket fans don't want to see
any repeated champions

Out of Team because of injury in which cricket was not involved(Interesting Cricket)

You must have seen or heard cricketer was out of
team due to injury during a match.But there are
several examples in which cricketers have to sit for
reasons in which cricket was not involved.Andre Nel
who had confidence to be selected in Series against
India was at his own home when he opened refrigerator
and then a water filled bottle fell on his toe;result
was he got injured so much that he could not play that
series.Mathew Hayden had injured his finger bone at
the start of 2006-07 season.He was knowing that he
is out of series so he was jogging in park to keep
himself fit,but don't know from where a dog came and
started pursuing him and finally bite his heel.

England's Cricketer Chris Lewis never shown what
he is capable of during his cricket life.In 1993-94
England team toured West-Indies and don't know why?
he cut down his hair after visiting England and became
bald.He did not took any precaution after becoming bald
and on next day he came for net practice without wearing
cap;It was day time and his head was shining.He got seek
and could not play cricket for 4 days.

England's former Test Captain Ted Dexter's story is
very much interesting.On June 1965 he was going in his
car in Brent Ford city and on Great West Road.He did not
noticed that he have less petrol in his car and finally
it was over before an acclivity on the road.He thought
to take his car to nearest garage and started pushing
it on that road.Hardly had he just travelled some distance
on the inclined road, when he lost his control and the
car rolled over him.Until people approached him he had
got sufficient injuries.

Ian Greg played in England for Sussex.On 1983 his team
was playing County Championship against Cant.When first
day was over he went his home,but interestingly when his
hand went into his pocket to search for keys it came bare.
He might have lost his keys somewhere.But he thought an
idea to enter in his home,the window at second floor was
opened.He was confident of reaching that 18 feet high
window.So he started climbing by taking supports of other
windows but...when he was about to reach that opened
window he lost his balance and fell down.He was badly
injured due to that accident he sat outside team for
about 4 month.The same man i.e. Ian greg again went
through another accident;this time he was Captain of
Surrey.When he got injured during a match he was taken
to hospital for X-Ray.After X-Ray when he was waking up
he did not notice machine kept above his head and collided
with that.Due to which he was out of Team for 15 days.

In 1986 New Zealand toured England.New Zealand Team
had just got down from the plane when NZ Cricketer Traver
Franklin don't know what he did to Luggage Trolley having
a motor;the whole Trolley fell on him and he got buried
inside that.He got quite injuries by his senselessness.
Again in 1992-93 against England,an England bowler threw
a ball which injured his Shoulder.

In 1998-99 West Indies Team left for South Africa but
they stopped in between and started a strike.At that time
Cricketers halted in a Hotel.Jimi Adams was also in Team.
One day Adams was cutting a slice from bread with knife.
he did not notice and cut his finger by mistake.It was so
deep cut that there was blood and blood everywhere.
Team management could not manage doctor instantly and
the doctor which they got,did first aid with very much
difficulty and the person who assist that doctor was
SA Board's Officer Dr.Ali bacher who have medical
Degree but don't practice it.That injury threw him out
of that series and he could not go to South Africa.

In Australia,South African Cricketer Mark Boucher
also went through the injury resembling Adams.Boucher
was rapidly moving the knife between meet to take his
part but by mistake knife took a part of his finger
and he got injured.Andrew Hall did wicketkeeping in
the place of Boucher.

In 1987-1988,England team which toured Pakistan,had
Wicketkeeper Bruce French.Team was doing net practice
and there were some spectators who were watching the
net practice.During practice due to a shot a batsman
a ball went far.During a practice more than a ball are
used so practice started with another ball but anyone
did not notice the ball which had gone toward spectators.
A spectator took that ball and threw it toward nets;this
ball took a direct route to french's head.When he was
being taken to hospital don't know from where a car came
and it collided with French.Lastly he was admitted
and his injuries were plastered.In hospital when he was
waking up from bed for plastering;his head collided with
a bulb hanging above his head

During Hedingley Test in 1982,England's Derec Pringle
was resting on chair and started leaning backward side
but the chair tilted more than what he had expected and
after a second he was on the floor along with his chair.
Due to this his head got injured.

History of the oldest cricket series.

Let's have some background about the Ashes trophy.
Why it's called Ashes trophy?The series is named
after a thriller column published in a British newspaper,
The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval
in which Australia beat England on an English ground
for the first time.The obituary stated that English
cricket had died,and the body will be cremated and
the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed
the next English tour to Australia (1882–83) as the rescue
operation to take back Ashes Trophy.A few weeks later
an English team, captained by the Hon Ivo Bligh [later
Lord Darnley],counter claimed to tour Australia, with
Bligh promising to return with "the ashes";On the other hand
Australian captain WL Murdoch similarly promised to defend them.

Apart from playing three scheduled matches against the
Australian national team,England Captain Bligh and the
beginner players in his team took part in many social
matches.It was after one such match,at the Rupertswood
Estate outside Melbourne on Christmas Eve 1882,that
Bligh was given the small terracotta urn as a symbol
of the ashes that he had travelled to Australia to regain.

Bligh married Florence Morphy in Febryary 1884.Then they
returned to England, taking the urn - which Bligh always
regarded as a personal gift.It was kept on the mantelpiece
at the Bligh family home - Cobham Hall,near Rochester in
Kent - until Bligh died,43 years later.At his request,
Florence gave the urn to MCC.Today,over 75 years on,the
tiny,delicate and irreplaceable artefact resides in the
MCC Museum at Lord's.Each year,it is seen by about million
of visitors from all parts of the world.

In the 1990s,recognising the two teams desire to compete
for an actual trophy,MCC commissioned - after discussions
with the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket
Australia - an urn-shaped Waterford Crystal trophy.
This was first presented to Mark Taylor after his
Australian side emerged winner in the 1998-99 Test series
against England.Since then,the trophy has been presented
to the winning captain at the end of each Test series
between Australia and England.From October 2006 to
January 2007,the urn formed the centre of attraction
of the MCC Travelex Ashes Exhibition.

Let us trip to ground used for the Ashes series matches.
In Australia, the grounds currently used are "The Gabba"
in Brisbane (first staged an England-Australia Test in the
1932–33 season),Adelaide Oval (1884–85), The WACA, Perth
(1970–71) the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) (1876–77)
and the Sydney Cricket Ground(SCG) (1881–82). One Test
was held at the Brisbane Exhibition Ground in 1928–29.
Traditionally,Melbourne hosts the Boxing Day Testand
Sydney hosts the New Year Test, which is the first Test
of every year. Cricket Australia has proposed that the
2010–11 series consist of six Tests, with the additional
game to be played at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.
The England Cricket Board is yet to agree to this.
In England the grounds used are The Oval (since 1880),
Old Trafford (1884), Lord's (1884), Trent Bridge (1899),
Headingley (1899) andEdgbaston (1902). One Test was held
at Bramall Lane, Sheffield in 1902. SWALEC Stadium in
Cardiff,Wales held the first (and its first) Test in the
2009 Ashes series.In addition, the Riverside Ground in
County Durham will host an Ashes test in 2013.

According to tradition to play Ashes series it is being
played between Australia and England currently,Before
the start of the Ashes series everyone was concerned about
if this test series will attract the fans or not.But it is
seem to be successful in this attempt and current result is
1-1.In first test,England cricket team was accused of not
playing with right attitude.Some former cricketer
says there was nothing wrong and some says English
cricketers did not do right.Let us see what happens at oval.
Ricky pointing have already awarded this last match as
the biggest match of his carrier.(First image is Ashes
series result so far.)

Bad start means half lost

I was waiting for official declaration of the result
of fourth test match to write this post.Because if
rain would have abandoned the match then there were
no meaning of write this post.By the way The above
secret of loosing I derived from Ashes series's fourth
test match.

First take England side.They were looking confident
after the crucial win against England.The appreciation
which England cricketers had earned after a win;
they lost it on the first day of the fourth test match
by scoring 102 runs in 34 overs and no wicket to loose.
Later day after day England did not look to recover any
more.Australia completely humiliated England cricket.
Andrew Flintoff had declared himself fit for the fourth
test match but taking his knee injury as barrier selector
did not included him.

Australia really deserved for winning the fourth game
and they did it.Australians performed well in every
field.Credit goes to all 11 cricketers of Australian team.
There were rumour that Bret Lee is feet to play and he
might be included in the squad but he was not included
finally.Peter Siddle once again came out as important
bowler for Australian side after performing well in India.

Cricket demands England to win the Ashes series because
it will grab the attention of the fan all over the world
and fans complains that there is nothing entertaining
in Ashes now.

It will be interesting to enjoy the last match when
both the team will try to earn respect from their respective
fans.Let us see who will get success in their attempts.
I hope that both the team will try to make the last
test no lesser than a climax of a film.And hoping it will
not be one sided.Both the team will not leave any stone
unturned to win this match.

Waiting to be noticed?

It is said that if two senior talks then
juniors should not interfere in between
that's the condition of Bangladesh-West Indies
and Sri Lanka-Pakistan series.

Bangladesh-West Indies series is over now
but the question still to be answered is that
what WCB gained by this series?.West Indies team
was of inferior quality,because of grievance between
WCB and WCA most of cricketers were on strike.
The Bangladesh side which have gained nothing except
some unexpected results,humiliated the prestige of West
Indies cricket.Last time West Indies cricketer
Shivnarayan Chanderpaul was not involved in 'Operation
Rebel' against WCB that time he was criticised by colleagues
but this time he was also involved in rebels so West Indies
cricket was more weaker than ever before.That's why
even Bangladesh also got a chance to face photographers
with trophy which they had not expected in their dreams
also.I think West Indies cricket Board is weakest cricket
board of all which do not have control over their
cricketers.ICC should interfere in this matter otherwise
there will not be any meaning of playing this type of
series.So no one is interested in this type of cricket in
which cricket's prestige is going down.

Later comes Pak vs SL series.Pakistan who recently
won ICC T20 world Cup 2009,could not grab attention
of cricket fans.Test series score was 2-0 and ODI
series score is 3-0(results are in order Sri lanka-Pakistan).
Nothing is here which is worth grabbing attention because
most of fans had already anticipated that final result
will be in favour of Sri Lanka.

Ashes series between Australia and England;which before
the start was said to be fighting for it's existence
is in big lime-light.Obvious reason is cricket fans
are fed up with Australia winning every series;they
want to see some matches in which someone challenges
empire of Australia in cricket.And this time they sees
some splendid performance from England side and might be
hoping that England should win the series in order to give
some jerk to Australia.

ICC should think over organising more than two or three
series at the same time because Ashes series has maximum
attention of cricket fans leading Bangladesh-WI and
Sri-Lanka series.ICC just should not think for increasing
it's dollars rather they should make sure that good cricket
is being played in good environment.

When Bad umpiring ruins cricket.

If you are fan of a particular team and
bad umpiring decision goes in favour of
your team then you might not be frustrated
but if you are big fan of cricket then
you will not bear any wrong decision to
hamper the cricket.

There have been many wrong decision in cricket
History but in earlier time when there was
no management for replays then fans had to trust
Umpire.Now we have all the armour to show that
whether umpire gave right decision or not rather
umpires undergoes more pressure while giving any
decisions.

It was a Border-Gavaskar Test series last year
in the month of January between Australia and India
in which Umpiring was at it's lowest level.
Mark Benson and Steave Buckner were umpire for this
series.There was total 9 wrong decision in the second
test.Unfortunately all 9 were against India i.e.in the
favour of Australia.Steave Bucknor was already famous
for giving wrong decision against Sachin Tendulkar.
After this match Indian cricketer asked to
change Umpire for the rest of matches.
Indian media made villain to Steave Bucknor and Mark
Benson.Indian Newspapers were quoting headlines like
'They were 14 and we were 11'.These both umpires did
not increased prestige of umpiring anymore.Indian
Cricketer were more frustrated when Mark Benson
was so tired of umpiring and could not even able
to speak on microphone to ask third umpire for
correct decision and thought it to be logical to
ask Ponting for a catch of Sourav Ganguly and
unfortunately Third Umpire i.e.Ponting declared him out:).

The bad umpiring has come in light again in the
current Ashes 2009 series.All Cricket lovers are
showing there frustration by some means.What can be
done to ensure that a decision is flawless.Should
an umpire be directly connected to third umpire for
all doubting catches and run outs etc.Then what Umpire
will do on ground,just declaring what Third Umpire
says rather decision can be displayed on Decision
Board.Otherwise they will be just for noting down
if anyone breaks code of conduct and submitting it
to match referee.Should ICC use umpires with more
experience?.This is silly question because we have
example of Steave Bucknor.Let us hope that ICC learns
lesson from this events and tries to make cricket
better by improving it's Umpiring Field.