Well, I couldn’t avoid writing about it forever. The Australia - India Test series was actually quite good, but now everyone involved has come out of it badly.
Symonds, it was revealed, was needlessly aggressive towards Singh when the latter patted Brett Lee on the back (which used to be A Good Thing, didn’t it?), and [...]
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Shaun Tait’s given up cricket indefinitely, Harbhajan Singh has controversially been cleared of making racist remarks to Andrew Symonds, and Shane Bond has traded in his International career for the ICL. So what am I moved to write about? The Stanford 20/20, of course.
The tournament is perhaps the brashest, boldest and most exciting 20/20 tournament [...]
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Posted in lists, tagged adam gilchrist, andrew symonds, c b fry, ian botham, ian chappell, inzamam-ul-haq, javed miandad, shahid afridi, shivnarine chanderpaul, shoaib akhtar on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
In honour of that Aussie fella who’s calling it a day, here are the Ten Cricketers who Could Have You in a Fight:
Ian Botham. Obviously.
Andrew Symonds. He hunts wild animals with his bare hands. Do you? Thought not.
Inzamam-ul-Haq. A big man, but out of shape? Well, when a spectator called him a ‘potato’, Inzy went [...]
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Posted in england, india, sri lanka, west indies, youtube, tagged andrew caddick, england, gary sobers, india, lasith malinga, sri lanka, stuart broad, west indies, yuvraj singh on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Yuvraj Singh hits six sixes of a single over. Poor Stuart Broad.
It’s been done before, of course.
Malinga takes four wickets in four balls.
Andy Caddick, of course, was doing that sort of thing years ago.
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Seems Sachin’s been at it again. After what I wrote yesterday, it might seem that an experienced Indian batsman making a century would be the last thing I’d expect. But the Little Master deserves different treatment from Dravid or Ganguly, in my eyes at least.
In much the same way that I was keen for [...]
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Dileep Premachandran has written on the Guardian sport website that India’s decision to drop Ganguly and Dravid for the One Day side is, to say the least, a bit premature. Personally, I think that it’s time to move on.
Yes, as Dileep points out, the young generation of batsmen aren’t quite there yet. Also, it’s true [...]
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