Tim's Isle

One our favourite non-cricket cricket writers writes on the hazards of making a prediction in cricket at cricinfo.com. We concur. It's so easy to fix matches, it's best that only insiders make predictions. What with the advent of fancy-fixing, micro-fixing, player management and other arcane terms for plain ole match-fixing, predicting the outcome of anything cricket is, as our favourite non-cricket cricket writer Tim would say, a mug's game. You can read Tim on his sporting and non-sporting pastimes at www.timdelisle.com. Recommended dosage: Often.