< 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
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Umpiring 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 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
Continue readingRP Singh swings India above Australia
2 minute readA while ago we wrote about the surfeit of options India have in their pace bowling ranks. Hopefully things are getting a little clearer. For the record, we’d go with Zaheer Khan, RP Singh and Irfan Pathan, which would perhaps be a little harsh on Sreesanth if it weren’t for
Continue readingVirender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid are back
2 minute readVirender Sehwag hit a typically outrageous hundred at the weekend against a group of bowlers we’ve never heard of. Some might say that it wasn’t testing enough to warrant a return to the Test side, but Virender Sehwag doesn’t really work like that. Whether Virender Sehwag succeeds is largely down
Continue readingOfficial stance on Harbhajan Singh calling Andrew Symonds a monkey
< 1 minute readAs many of you have gathered, we were away last week. We did say something somewhere, but we always get lots of ‘why aren’t you covering this?’ emails and comments even if we do make an ‘official’ announcement. Anyway, it seems the big news was STILL Harbhajan Singh calling Andrew
Continue readingTwenty20 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 readingSachin Tendulkar’s helium-filled bat
< 1 minute readEveryone knows about Dennis Lillee’s aluminium bat, but Sachin Tendulkar’s experiment with a helium-filled bat is less well known. Sachin thought the lightness of the bat would allow him to bat freer and longer, but unfortunately, as this picture shows, the excess of helium rendered the bat unusable. During the
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