< 1 minute readOnly the gift is a poo in a box and it keeps jumping up and punching you in the face, leaving you bruised and faecal. Eventually the poo knocks you out, whereupon it steals all your money and forces you to dance naked in the car park at work in
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Stuart Clark’s bowling average enters the realms of the credible
< 1 minute readThere’s no problem picking five bowlers when one hits 87 and another hits 63. There were some pretty expensive bowling figures knocking about after India finished their innings. Perhaps the nicest was Stuart Clark’s 0-92. Now we’ve nothing against Clark, but he shouldn’t be averaging under 20 with the ball.
Continue readingBrad Hogg bowling to Sachin Tendulkar
< 1 minute read“He hit my best ball for six,” Hogg said. Yes – and you get the impression that Sachin Tendulkar could quite easily hit any delivery he chooses for a boundary. He’s only holding back so that Hogg doesn’t get taken off. He and VVS Laxman got a bit carried away
Continue readingMatthew Hayden back for Australia
< 1 minute readThis is good news, because when he’s not playing he can’t fail and humiliate himself. We don’t think it’s any coincidence that he skived the match where India’s bowlers remembered how to swing the ball. Surprisingly, this is the first time our twin obsessions have appeared on the same day.
Continue readingQuotes about India beating Australia
< 1 minute readUncle J Rod at Cricket With Balls congratulates India but keeps a sense of perspective: “India must look at this win for what it is, a small step in the right direction, but many an explorer has fallen off a mountain. Even Sober.” The Atheist at Are You A Left-Arm
Continue readingUmpiring decisions between Australia and India
< 1 minute readWrite something ourself about the ho-hum one-day cricket between South Africa and West Indies or just reproduce some quotes from elsewhere about India’s win last week? People who’ve encountered our legendary capacity for graft first-hand won’t be surprised with the outcome. A fair point from John at Cricket-blog.com: “Opponents complain
Continue readingHow often do Australia lose at home?
2 minute readAustralia win at home. That’s the way it is. They play to their strengths and they beat everyone. Well not today. India outplayed Australia and they did it via their seam bowlers and at the WACA no less. RP Singh bowled beautifully and Irfan Pathan took wickets with the new
Continue readingAustralians celebrate minor triumphs in defeat
< 1 minute readThat was odd. Mitchell Johnson hit a valiant fifty in defeat and when he reached the landmark, the crowd erupted. How very, very… … English…
Continue readingMatthew Hayden resorts to acupuncture
< 1 minute readHayden’s gone down the ‘being prodded’ route in trying to recover from his hamstring injury. That’s what we’ll tell the police when they find us crouched in his garden, jabbing at a doll of his likeness with a needle: we’re aiding his recovery. While we were on holiday, the only
Continue readingWe think it’s still ‘well-poised’
< 1 minute readWhen India only reached 294 (and that only after a lower order rally) we felt they’d been too generous. Australia’s batsmen rarely fail twice in the same match. But lo! At 65-2, India are picking up where they left off in the Aussies’ first innings. It’s all quite intriguing, although
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