< 1 minute readGo on, do it… No, you ask… We don’t think he’s going to let us have it back.
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Twenty20 wicketkeeping
2 minute readDo you want the better batsman or the better wicketkeeper behind the stumps for your team? That argument’s been represented by any number of individual duels over the years. Recently though, we think you’ll all agree that the better batsman’s been winning out, in general. Blame Adam Gilchrist. He’s a
Continue readingRicky Ponting with a bat in his mouth
< 1 minute readPictures like this DESERVE captions: This is what we’ve come up with: (1) Ricky Ponting with a bat in his mouth. (2) Ricky Ponting eats a cricket bat. (3) Ricky Ponting and a cricket bat and the bat’s sort of in his mouth so it sort of looks like he
Continue readingMichael Clarke does some sort of deal with the devil
< 1 minute readHe must have sold something to Satan to take three wickets in the penultimate over to win this Test for Australia. It can’t have been his soul though, because he must have already sold that to Ricky Ponting to bring him on to bowl in the first place. Maybe it
Continue readingMatthew Hayden continues to personify all that’s wrong with modern cricket
< 1 minute readDo we hate Matthew Hayden because he personifies all that’s wrong with modern cricket or do we just ascribe those traits to him because we hate him? It doesn’t matter. The important part is that we hate him. The whys and wherefores all pale into insignificance next to the sheer
Continue readingAn unbeaten Tendulkar hundred – everything is as it should be
< 1 minute readUp here in the northern hemisphere we need a bit of comfort at this time of year; something warm and familiar to let us know that all’s right in the world and the status quo persists. That’s ‘status quo’ and not ‘Status Quo’, you understand. Francis Rossi et al. have
Continue readingVVS Laxman playing his favourite opponents at his favourite ground
< 1 minute readNot many cricketers actively prefer to play Australia, statistically at least. Most prefer Bangladesh. VVS Laxman just might prefer Australia. We always preferred playing the wall of the garage, which could function as batsman, bowler, fielders AND scorecard – with the aid of a bit of chalk. We think that
Continue readingAndrew Symonds: good enough if you give him a chance or two
< 1 minute readWe’re still not sure about Andrew Symonds as a Test player. We’re sure he is one. Don’t get us wrong. We don’t doubt our own eyes – that would be madness. Just who do you trust, if you don’t trust your eyes? Your ears? Unlikely. Ears are devious. Anyway: Symonds.
Continue readingBrett Lee’s actually good nowadays
2 minute readStuart Clark got the better figures, 4-28 and got the best batsmen out, but the story’s about Brett Lee today. He took his 250th Test wicket, but there’s more than that. This is Australia’s third Test since Warne and McGrath retired and every time Australia’s opponents have batted, Brett Lee’s
Continue readingRicky Ponting goes through some rather spectacular motions
< 1 minute readNo, he hasn’t risked eating cream cheese in Karnataka and isn’t enduring THOSE sorts of spectacular motions (just say no, kids). He’s just going through the cricketing motions, only ‘going through the motions’ for Ricky Ponting involves scoring unbeaten hundreds. He operates at a higher level, this batsman. Australia won
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