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AS Michael Holding retires from the commentary box we should remember the great player he...

gani999 Harsha may be a good commentator but he is often too full of himself. His IIM MBA fuelled hubris shows itself all too often and is rather annoying. The fact that he hasn't played anything besides street cricket also runs against him. For me one can't comment on a game unless one has played it at the highest level. I remember a television discussion featuring Harsha and MAK Pataudi some years ago (It was possibly just after India's exit from the 2007 WC after India lost to Bangladesh). Harsha was breathing fire on Rahul Dravid, going to the point of suggesting that he should stop play...

Pause, rewind, play: Michael Holding, Geoffrey Boycott and the 'greatest over ever bowled’ In the 1981 Bridgetown Test, Holding bowled six perfect balls before ending Boycott’s ordeal in such a striking manner that it ended up immortalising the over. File photo of Michael Holding | Screenshot / Cricket Australia For years [Andy] Roberts opened the bowling, followed by [Michael] Holding. Then, one day in 1981, in a Test against England at Bridgetown in Barbados, captain Clive Lloyd told Holding his time had come.  “Which end do you want to bowl from?” he asked.  �...

Robin Jackman, Surrey and England bowler held back by links with South Africa – obituary He played in four Tests but was served with a deportation order in Guyana during England’s 1980-81 tour of West Indies Robin Jackman Credit:  ITN/Shutterstock Robin Jackman, who has died aged 75, was an accurate and bustling fast-medium bowler who was unlucky not to play in more than four Test matches; he had a lengthy and consistent career with Surrey, helping them to win the County Championship in 1971. When, a decade later, he finally joined an England tour party, he became embroiled in a row with...

England skittle dismal Sri Lanka for 135 on day one of first Test as Dom Bess takes five wickets Sri Lanka gift England wickets as they slump to the lowest-ever first-innings total in a Galle Test; Dom Bess takes five wickets as hosts skittled in 46.1 overs; Joe Root's 50th Test fifty helps England to 127-2 by stumps, a deficit of only eight runs Last Updated: 14/01/21 6:42pm 6:56 The best of the action from day one of the first Test between Sri Lanka and England. The best of the action from day one o...