English Cricket Board

** ENGLISH CRICKET BOARD** Englsih cricket board, also known as ECB, is the oldest board among all cricket boards. ECB is in charge of running cricket in England and Wales together from the grass root level to the top level. ECB has taken many initiatives in the past and use to bring changes in the game from time to time. The emergence of T20 is just because of ECB initiative. ECB initially tries to bring changes in their county tournaments and then, they are brought internationally. many experiments they have done like 40-40 over game format, 4 day test matches, 20-20 over formats, etc. all these formats are played in county championships. The ...  Read the complete review

So, the ECB. The embodiment of cricket, not only in this country, but regarded throughout the world as a great sporting establishment. So why oh why can they not string together a starting XI for England?? With the final Ashes test on the horizon at the Oval and the series now tied at 1-1 after the debacle that was the Headingley test match, England must win in London to regain the Ashes from the Aussies grasp. A draw would have been enough if they didn't capitulate in Leeds, but now it win or bust for us. The talking point that the team of selectors must now come to is who the starting line-up will be. It's a nailed on certainty that there will be ...  Read the complete review

There is no doubt that sport plays a colossal role in the everyday lives of a high percentage of English people; whether they be a born and bred sportsperson - where their sport or sports is a matter of life and death and they simply cannot and will not live without it. Or, be it someone who has become totally obsessive about something they should think they should hate and for an absurd reason that they can't explain - it has become their life! The pressure, the controversy and the knife-edge tension that the English professional sportswomen, but particularly sportsmen experience; makes them heroes when they make the right decision or villains when they make ...  Read the complete review

The English Cricket Board, more commonly known as the ECB, are in charge of running the game of cricket in England and Wales from grass root to Test match level. The are responsible for arranging the international matches, county leagues and trophies and also the womens and childrens cricket. The ECB run a number if initatives to try and promote the game of cricket among young children, both male and female. There is a relatively low level of participation in the UK, compared with other sports such as football. If you have ever watched cricket on the televison, you may have spotted youngsters on the pitch during the lunch time interval. They participate ...  Read the complete review

I have previously written on these pages about the political situation in Zimbabwe. Subsequently, some may recall, I expressed my views on the Cricket World Cup and, specifically, the appalling situation the England Cricket team were put in by the decision of the ECB to commit to playing a fixture in Zimbabwe. To summarise these points as quickly as I can, Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe believes in the redistribution of land from white families who settled in the country in the late 19th / early 20th Centuries and developed successful farms on previously uncultivated land. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this policy (Zimbabwe's own ...  Read the complete review