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I have always been fascinated by the polarising cricketers, those who spark polemics among the cognoscenti. I am thinking of Adam Voges, Dean Jones, Bill Ponsford and Matthew Hayden.
To me, the burly Queenslander is overrated and I am amazed how often his name appears in an Australian all-time XI. This is not to say that Hayden was not a very good player, he certainly was. Among his achievements, most compelling was his performances on the subcontinent, where he demonstrated a superb technique for dealing with the Indian spinners.
Ambrose: West Indies glory days will come not back; why iconic pacer bowled a googly
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Book Title: Myth-Busting Indian Cricket Behind the Headlines
Author: Gulu Ezekiel
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Viv Richards, probably the most fearsome destructor of bowlers, trusted God to protect his head from the hard red ball hurled at him by fast bowlers. In an interview in 2013, he talked about playing for his team, West Indies, in nearly spiritual tones: “I don’t think I would have done that cap any justice if I had anything else on the head… I felt God will protect me from whatever I was facing out in the middle.”
It seems that Richards didn’t trust God and his cap completely at least not when he was donning the cap of a team in Australia or England. Gulu Ezekiel writes that the great West Indian occasionally did come to the conclusion that, just in case God decided to forsake him, a helmet might be useful to protect his skull.
AusLaw lessons to be learnt from the European Super League debacle
By Tim Fuller|25 April 2021
It came, it saw and, most certainly, it did not conquer. The reference is arguably the biggest fiasco in football history that was known as the European Super League (ESL), writes Tim Fuller. In one of the most brazen sporting coups ever, the ESL attempted to set up a breakaway competition to the Union of European Football Association (UEFA) Champions League.
Reportedly backed by JP Morgan with £4 billion funding, 12 UK and European clubs set out to change the course of football history forever.
The swift and decisive intervention of UEFA, the Football Association (FA) of England, the British government and even the royal family, along with the ferocious reaction from loyal football fans, thwarted the rebel clubs in their audacious bid.
A Colombian lesson from history: the super league battle is not over Jonathan Wilson
9 April 1948, Bogotá, Colombia. Before the 2pm meeting he had scheduled with a young Cuban lawyer called Fidel Castro, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, leader of the Liberal Party, decided to go for lunch at the Hotel Continental, five minutes’ walk from his office on Carrera Séptima. He never got to the restaurant. An assassin walked up to him, shot him four times and, five minutes before he had been due to meet Castro, Gaitán was pronounced dead in a local hospital.
Violence was inevitable. The Colombian government knew what was coming and desperately sought a way to calm tensions. What could they do to distract the population, to head off civil war? The president, Mariano Ospina Pérez, gave his support to plans to create a professional football league. Four months later the first game was played. “Gaitán’s murder was what triggered professional football in Colombia,” said A
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