Barry Jarman

Former Australian Test wicketkeeper and ex-International Cricket Council (ICC) match referee Barry Jarman has died. The South Australian Cricket Association said Jarman died on Saturday. They did not give further details.

The ICC attempt to stop players from literally bludgeoning each other to death has been successful to a great extent but lacunae still persist.

NEW DELHI: The controversy has taken a back seat for now. The cricket world is all praises for Murali.

HEADS & TALES/Saurav Ganguly"First there is God and then there is Saurav," gushed Rahul Dravid of his teammate a couple of years ago. Alas, as the Indian captain realised to his chagrin last week, the hierarchy of power in cricket can be slightly more complicated. There are pesky match referees, for instance, who can butt in with their authority every now and then.

The `Miracle of Kanpur’ on December 24, 1959, authored by a 35-year-old Jasu Patel’s magic, certainly cannot be masked by the subsequent triumphs at Port-of-Spain and The Oval, Lord's and Leeds, Melbourne and Sydney, and the World Cup ’83.