India’s World Cup final victory over Sri Lanka fitting reward for a superb team effort

Before the final everyone was talking about the big two, Muttiah Muralitharan and Sachin Tendulkar. Could Murali go out with a big bang? Or Tendulkar score his hundredth hundred and make a billion people happy? No. To both.

Muttiah Muralitharan and Lasith Malinga hold the key to success in the World Cup final

India are not a team that play well under pressure but I believe they are capable of handling the hype to become the first team to win the World Cup in their own country.

England selectors have lost the plot

Before the one-day series started, I had high hopes that England would do well in the World Cup — and might even win the thing. After the Sydney Test, we all thought they were in magnificent shape. They were confident, focused and well organised.

Magic Man Puts India On Top Of The World

What a fantastic cricket match India and Sri Lanka produced in the third Test.

More tests would prove India the best

What a great come back by India in Kolkata and it reinforced what I said a week ago that they needed the mature, experienced players to stand up and be counted under pressure.

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    Geoffrey Boycott was a leading light in English cricket for a quarter of a century making over 48,000 runs and scoring 151 hundreds in an often controversial career with Yorkshire and England. After his distinguished peformances on the field he faced the biggest battle of his life – against cancer. He recovered to become an outspoken commentator on the game, his trenchant views on all aspects of cricket at home and abroad highly respected.

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