Indian cricket provides a roller-coaster ride to its fans, who seem to be in a perpetual tizzy. Their passion shows not only when the team hits winning ways but also when it is down in the dumps like after the recent World Cup, where India crashed out at the preliminary stage.

The Indian cricket Board has realised that a lot needs to be done to ensure the standard of the game does not go down and that it continues to produce top-class cricketers, but probably is still figuring out what needs to be done.

That one loss to Bangladesh in the World Cup crashed the hopes of millions, rendering even the much-awaited event colourless, come as it did along with Pakistan’s defeat to Ireland and a similar ouster.

Followers of the game have been concerned with the Indian team’s dip in fortunes and surely have their points of view and ideas for the betterment of the game in the country. Cricketnext has taken the initiative to provide fans with a platform to vent their venom, views and more.

So, what are you waiting for? If you have a piece of advice for skipper Rahul Dravid, encouragement for players or some thoughts for cricket administrators to chew on, just blog with the most ‘happening’ cricket site.

Not only is it a chance to showcase your flair for writing and understanding of the game but also to be seen on our news channel CNN-IBN. The best blogger will be selected by our editorial board on the basis of the quality of the blogs as well as the comments on the blog and get to send out a message for Indian cricket on our prestigious English channel.

Griffith Park
Originally uploaded by patrick73.

I wrote a few words about Brad Hodge’s double century for Australia last week against South Africa, and got alot of Ex-Pat Aussies, Kiwis, and Non-NFL-NBL antipodeans that got into the very little mention. So stay tuned for The Melbourne Boxing Day Test micro coverage here; I might not even post about it, but come here first for the best signal:noise cricket ratio. Also check out the cool CricketBlog. Australia will be debuting a new opener, Phil Jacques (who is averaging over 100 in domestic cricket this year). With a billion people in India, plus Pakistan, and a bit less than that in Australia/England/Sth Africa, + high global television ratings, cricket is something I havent seen blogged much; From matchlead ups to real time coverage and post analysis. Anyone interested, maybe we set a page up – Im especially concerned someone will cut our lunch, esp Mike Arrington who has been bowling some good googlies recently, with the word on the street, that maybe he’s thinking about cricket + blogs = CASH. Ok, he’s probably not : “I’ll be launching a new blog next week under a completely separate domain name, which will be written by a really great, established blogger. The topic will be tech-related and highly specific (and an area I don’t really cover enough). Over time I will be adding more blogs and more authors on relevant topics.”