The men’s T20 World Cup is back after a long hiatus – it has been five and a half years since Carlos Brathwaite smoked those four sixes off Ben Stokes to give the West Indies their second title. Widely considered as a hit-and-giggle jamboree when it arrived in 2007, the tournament has since completed five […]
Read More Specials – Ten T20 World Cup records from 2007 that still standThe Kinrara Academy Oval in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur is currently playing host to the ICC Women’s Championship ODI series between England and Pakistan. Equipped with floodlights and having a capacity of 4,500, the ground got its first taste of ODI cricket back in September 2006, when Australia, India and the West […]
Read More Specials – When Malaysia first hosted ODI cricketJames Faulkner became the sixth Australian bowler and the 40th overall to take an ODI hat-trick when he achieved the feat against Sri Lanka in Colombo last week. The hat-trick was completed across two overs and was the first in ODIs not to include a victim out for a duck. In this post, […]
Read More Record Book – Australia’s hat-trick heroes in ODIsThe first ever World T20 was held in South Africa back in 2007 – at that time it was taken as more of a hit-and-giggle fortnight of cricket, and indeed, it was unheralded India – just six months after their World Cup disaster – who took home the inaugural trophy, sparking off a T20 revolution. […]
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The Cricket Cauldron 