I'm not that n00b that I'll make statements before trying it out: *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=101758 Go through this thread. I've changed it myself.
I was also thinking that this can be done only by the admins/moderators, but then I just thought of trying to change the title of the 1st post, voila it worked.
Well, the posts which were replied to the previous title of the thread, "the CRICKET channel" have this as their reply title and after when I had changed the name of the thread to "the official CRICKET thread", have the posts have "the official CRICKET thread" as their reply title and not to forget, when we go through the Chit-chat section, the name of the thread we see is, "the official CRICKET thread".......
The title of the thread is actually determined by the title of the 1st post of the thread.
And not to forget, do have a look at "Offtopic" at the beginning of this post.
Some things are very simple but they are ignored.....