World Cricket Watch

World Cricket Watch is a cricket site dedicated to cricket fans from around the world. Follow all the video highlights from cricket matches, get the best cricket comment, analysis and opinion and much much more.

Want to contribute to the site? Fancy becoming part of this band of social misfits and cricketing fiends? Get in touch with us at the email address below.

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EDITOR

David Siddall

The opening batsman that England never wanted. Despite rejection from the England camp, his passion for cricket has never waned. Now residing in Melbourne, he has tried and succeeded to plan the demise of the Aussies in the Ashes. He has a big fat smile on his face like a Cheshire Cat. Oh and the England Shirt is finally in his Melbourne wardrobe.

FAVOURITE CRICKETER – Graeme Smith

CRICKETER MOST LIKE – Nasser Hussain

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Blaise Murphet

Blaise Murphet was formally known as Mike Whitney. He played a handful of tests and one-dayer’s for Australia. He then went on to host the hit TV series ‘Who Dares Wins’. Since then he has moved on to greener pastures, including contributing to this site. He is still a cricket tragic, and reckons he could easily open the bowling for the Middle Park Under 14 B team in the domestic scene in Australia…no doubt about it.

Salva

Stuart Coull

Stuart grew up in Scotland and is testament that Scotland can play cricket, he opens the bowling right arm pretty f#$king quick and is a lower order batsman that gives it some serious tap. He plays for the greatest team in Scotland the Murrayfield Dafs in Edinburgh, if you wanna play cricket in Scotland check out their website.

FAVOURITE PLAYERS: Shane Warne, Ricky Ponting, Mike Atherton.

David Green

David’s playing career amounted to school and club level despite schoolboy dreams of captaining his country in an Ashes series Down Under. A useful opening bat, wicket keeper and occasional swing bowler, David is now trying to get the french to partake in the greatest sport in the World (with little success to date!).

Favourite current player: Paul Collingwood
Favourite ever players: David Gower, Douglas Jardine, Harold Larwood, Donald Bradman & Shane Warne

Jeremy Loadman

Like the rest of the World Cricket Watch team this chap has limited cricketing ability but bowls a straight-break to match anything Cameron White can dish up. While he grudgingly admits that the Aussies selectors, on occasion, do get the odd decision right, overall he thinks that their combined cricketing nous is the intellectual equivalent of Dougie Bollinger’s new hair do.

Rob Marrs

Rob is a 27 year old blogger based in Edinburgh. A football and cricket obsessive, he has the distinction of being possibly the only man to score a hat-trick for the Northen Hemisphere in a game of football*. He currently plays for Teuchters FC and Teuchters CC which means, in egotistical moments, he thinks of himself as a latter day Denis Compton.

He harbours ambitions of changing his nationality so as to get an international sporting cap. His own blog Left Back In The Changing Room veers between the geeky, the dorky and the nerdy and, on a good day, manages to be all three.

Away from sport, he enjoys reading, napping, and debating – in fact, he will never tire of hearing the sound of his own voice.

* At the World Universities Debating Championships, 2003, the Northern Hemisphere beat the Southern Hemisphere in a 6-2 thriller.

Tim Mathias

Graduating in 2009, Tim Mathias simply can’t get a job. Although having been a student for a past three years has enabled the close hand observation of world cricket, especially series in Australia/New Zealand. Conveniently scheduled to begin when he returns home from the pub university library.

Tim Mathias has failed to return to ‘normal’ life away from ‘studying at university’ and persists in pulling ridiculous faces to be tagged in Facebook photos.

With an English mother and Indian father, Tim Mathias’ allegiance is split between England, Great Britain AND Europe, whilst his all time sporting heroes are Nasser Hussain and Sally Gunnell.

Tim Mathias continues to pursue his dream of publishing his ongoing research on the evolution of Indian cricket, from ‘Cultural Supremacy to Cricketing Swadeshi’.

Suyash Srivastava

Aka “Syu”, 24, hails from Gorakhpur and has frequented New Delhi since 2006.

Syu eats cricket for breakfast. He’s been published alongside the likes of Wasim Akram and Zaheer Abbas in legendary Pakistani writer Asif Noorani’s latest book entitled “Boom Boom Shahid Afridi”.

When he’s not swinging in these illustrious circles, Syu is making waves in other fields – passions include music, writing and acting (he’s starred in a few short films).

Syu also waxes lyrical in these spots:

Front Foot – a blog for Cricket Freaks

Insight – a blog complete with comedy, life and poetry

FAVOURITE CURRENT CRICKETERS – Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Tillakratne Dilshan, Dale Steyn.