I felt so disappointed after India lost to Sri Lanka in the Tri Nation Idea Cup. Not because India lost. But for the fact that I did not feel disappointed after India lost. For me, it was just another ODI, just another India-Sri Lanka match. Tharanga, Dilshan, Sehwag, Kohli, Sanga, Yuvraj blah blah blah.

No, I am not getting Americanized, I have not started losing interest in cricket. I watched the Aus-Pak test (Sydney Test) with utmost interest and also updating my “what you feel like” status on Facebook during the match! I followed the Eng-Sa tests with so much more interest. I want to talk about a few of issues here, all of them related to ODI cricket:
1) Too much ODI cricket and improper planning.
2) Empowering bowlers/ De-powering batsmen.
3) Changing the format of the game to remove the monotony from ODIs.

This week we look at those who played lots of one-day cricket outside the county scene, the high catchers among outfielders and ‘keepers, and the one who crossed over.

In our recent quest for the top 50 cricketers of all time 109 names were put forward. In this feature Martin explains his surprise and disappointment that Stan McCabe’s wasn’t one of them.

Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui may not be a former cornfield, but as the crowd drift through the gates for our next T20 fixture in this gorgeous beach town, I can just make out an eerie voice blowing in with the sea breeze, whispering, ‘Build it and they will come…’

This week we look at the worst and best debuts in terms of keeping runs down, the Youth Test bests and leasts, and a couple of miscellaneous West Indian trivia.

For more than three quarters of a century their has been near unanimity amongst cricketers and the lovers of the game about Cardus being the greatest of cricket writers. Yet a few have chosen to criticise him for living in the past, “fictionalise his accounts of the game and worse. Swaranjeet takes up issue with these claims.

It appears to the writer that there is an acute shortage of “interesting questions” in the cacophony of debate about cricket’s future. Here is a start. . .

As ATS approaches its own century, this week we look at the nervous nineties.

India’s recent crowning as number one Test-playing nation had some people discussing whether or not they’ve ever been number one before – CW’s Dave Wilson applies the ICC rating system retrospectively to provide an answer.

As 2009 draws to a close, the Cricket Web team look back on their favourite cricketing moments of the year.