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February Foolishness: My picks in the 2015 Cricket World Cup

Submitted by rickeyre on February 14, 2015 - 8:12am

In the US they have March Madness. The 64 team knockout contest in men's basketball where fans fill out their bracket and attempt to pick, before the tournament commences, all 63 winners right down to the Championship game. In that futile tradition I give you my February Foolishness, as I attempt to pick the winners of the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

48 Tweets To Make You Feel That All Is Good With West Indian Cricket

Submitted by rickeyre on January 16, 2015 - 10:58pm

Whycliffe "Dave" Cameron has not exactly had a stellar two years in the hot seat as President of the West Indies Cricket Board. But you'd never know it from his Twitter feed.

Big Show by The Big Show: A 2014 cricket highlight

Submitted by rickeyre on December 29, 2014 - 12:48am

Victoria Bitter? No, that's just the advertising.

New South Wales defeated Victoria by an innings and 48 runs in two and a half days at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 14 February 2014. This was despite the best efforts of Glenn "The Big Show" Maxwell who scored 94 for the Vics in their first innings of 218.

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Great Ashes predictions of our time.

Submitted by rickeyre on December 9, 2013 - 12:03pm

I have never been a great tipper of sporting results. I can go years without picking the complete weekend's round in the footy tips contest. With that in mind, and to make it easier for you to mock me in perpetuity, I present my prediction for the 2013-14 Ashes, as made on the day before the First Test:

Cricinfo at 20ish: CricInfo365 at 15

Submitted by rickeyre on July 17, 2013 - 12:12am

Today, July 16, is the 15th anniversary of the first edition of CricInfo365 - the daily news email service of CricInfo, then a joint venture with Direct Network Publishing (later 365Corp). I was its creator, editor, and in those early days, its full-time staff of one, and worked on about a thousand editions (through a name change to CricInfo Daily) until August 2001.

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