Column > Michael Roberts
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March 21, 2012 - 14:56 Exploring reader opinions, an addendum  An addendum to my previous column 'DRS - India's hegemonic idiocy'. Read more... |
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February 19, 2012 - 10:36 DRS - India's hegemonic idiocy  When a person admired for qualities of sense, sensibility and intelligence adopts a position on a critical issue that is the height of irrationality and imbecility, it is both alarming and disconcerting. Such becomes the case for Mahendra Singh Dhoni when he reiterated India’s opposition to the fuller use of the DRS technology in adjudication. Read more... |
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February 18, 2012 - 01:02 If only - the run or two that made the difference  The Commonwealth Bank Tri Series has produced a remarkable series of coruscating and nerve-tingling finishes in a row. Read more... |
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February 16, 2012 - 10:42 No baloney from praiseworthy Dhoni  Many cricket fans would continue to marvel at the coolness and authority displayed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni in crunch situations at the end of tense ODI matches. But let me highlight and praise Dhoni’s balanced commentary in reviewing India’s performances and unfortunate moments after a match is over. His equanimity and reasonableness is praiseworthy. Read more... |
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February 1, 2012 - 12:55 Incursions and Excursions in and around Sri Lankan Cricket  This presentation of my book 'Incursions and Excursions in and around Sri Lankan Cricket' occurred at the R. Premadasa Stadium last year, during the World Cup 2011 squad’s practice session. Read more... |
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December 5, 2011 - 12:57 Electoral Musical Chairs spell doom for Sri Lanka Cricket  Let me write against the grain and challenge all sports editors and writers in Sri Lanka’s cricket world, especially those who have clamoured for “elections” as if the word spells” democracy” and thus amounts to a GOOD, when it is anything but that. Read more... |
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July 17, 2011 - 11:48 Kumar Sangakkara steps forth like Young Ceylon  Kumar Sangakkara's Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture for the MCC this summer was the antithesis of that presented within the same portals in 2006 by Martin Crowe. Where Crowe returned to the medieval archaic within the field of cricket and displayed the sentiments of a caveman, Sangakkara was forward-looking and stepped boldly beyond the confines of cricket to the socio-political dispensation in Sri Lanka. Read more... |
Rhodes Scholar for Ceylon in 1962, Michael Roberts is a historian by training, and has taught at the Dept of History at Peradeniya University (1961-76) and the Dept of Anthropology at Adelaide University (1977-2003).