You continue to amaze me with your vituperative and puerile outbursts on public fora. You do not come across as a balanced person.

This website gave you the privilege of a balanced hearing a log time back. At the time, I thought that the website editors were mad. I wrote to them at the time. They explained to me that it was important to try and understand both sides. I left my arguments there.

Most Indians will have been insulted by your crass one-eyed articles last October. To then have you call yourself an Indophile because you have a Ganesha Idol on your mantelpiece was only insulting.

The subsequent Australia-India series in Australia showed you for who you were — an irresponsible writer who deserved his regular and frequent public mocking. Your article on Harbhajan Singh’s mother was not only in appallingly poor taste, it was the worst piece of journalism I have seen in a long time — and I am a journalist too. You are, to me, a redneck in a nice mans’ garb. Pauline Hanson would welcome you in her midst even without a “Please Explain”!

So please refrain from calling one of the contributors of this website an “ignorant goon”. He gave you a patient hearing and then you yourself proceeded to demonstrate that you had no ground to stand on.

As with everything else about you, you throw your hands up in the air and feign innocence like a rabbit caught in the headlights anytime there is something said against you. You deserve to be mocked in every way possible. You should be responsible for the headlines your articles create. If you thought that the headline was inappropriate, you can and ought to fix it. I am enough of a journalist to know that the writer can influence the copy editor. I do. If you do not, you are abrogating your social responsibility — you will be seen as nothing other than a man caught with his pants down… permanently.

Rajaram

Laws of cricket is very clear —above head bouncer is a no ball- after 3 such balls by that bowler in that innings , the bowler should not bowl again in that innings—–but in inernational matches—due to pressure from the teams, the umpires have been instructed to call a wide!!!! And another ball must be bowled.

I shall watch the games closely tonight and see if IPL have their own interpretations!!!!! We shouldn’t be surprised as goondas, bootleggers and striptease artists are owning the teams and runnin g the show

Re substitutes

existing rules are enough–provided umpires are allowed to impose it

Captains, coaches, managers, respective national bodies have successfully castrated the umpires in such a way that umpires do not and will not impose that 10 fielders field on occasions players go off to have a leak, shower, change shirts, REST etc

Fast bowlers, in the last session of a test can go off for more than 15 minutes and yet front up the next morning and bowl straight away

Simple rule will be like soccer, AFL footy etc

Have as many interchange players for the fielding team and have no restrictions

For the batting side–same rule–have interchange batters to come on if some one is too slow, can’t play Warnie or McGrath or Murali or has a hangover or has the proverbial ‘RUNS”

There will be more TAMASHA than what we see in IPL matches!!!!!

The batting PP in ODIs would be a good move, though I doubt it is a way to get rid of area between overs 15/20 – 40 where the game just seems to coast along.

I think the bowl out is hilarious – there players are meant to be professionals, yet they can’t hit the wicket without a batsman in the way.

A Test League would be nice for the true cricket fans to see. It probably won’t get off the ground because TV is now so focused on T20 and crowds won’t probably be keen on watching Test Matches between two touring teams.