Posted in youtube, tagged beach cricket, bowl out, graham hick, haka, ice cricket, indian premier league, indoor cricket, ipl, power cricket on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Long before the advent of Twenty20, with its bowl-outs and 36-run overs, people have tried to come up with ‘interesting’ variants of cricket, and the trend shows no sign of abating.
There’s ‘Power Cricket‘, an indoor variant where hitting the roof was worth 12 runs; marginally more straightforward Indoor Cricket, complete with the Haka when New [...]
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Brian Lara celebrated his birthday yesterday, so in honour of the Trinidadian run machine, here are some of his finest moments.
Lara will, of course, be mainly remembered for his massive scores (the highest-ever first class score, and the world record Test score, to name but two). His retirement in 2007 marked the end of an [...]
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If catches win matches, then careless hands cost runs.
Dropped catches come in many types. Firstly, there’s your common-or-garden fumble, like this one which gave Sehwag a repreive.
Then there’s the ‘celebrating too soon‘, which has afflicted even the great Brian Lara.
Lara has much reason to bemoan his luck with the dropped catch, especially as he also [...]
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Posted in youtube, tagged bangalore royal challengers, bollywood, indian premier league, ipl, Kings XI Punjab, kolkata knight riders, mumbai indians, rajasthan royals, west side story on April 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The IPL is probably the most extravagantly marketed cricket competition in the history of the world. Each team has their own Music Video, for example. Yes, really.
The Knight Riders, for example, are apparently “too hot, too cool“, which suggests they need to sort out their haphazard air conditioning post haste.
Meanwhile, the Mumbai Indians’ effort is [...]
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In these days of runs, runs and more runs, it is important that cricketers remember the art of the abject collapse.
Often practiced by Bangladesh (and, in days past, Zimbabwe), the collapse can also strike at more establised sides. India’s recent addition to the meme was a classic, posting a mere 76, a fair bit lower [...]
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Posted in england, ireland, new zealand, pakistan, south africa, sri lanka, youtube, zimbabwe, tagged abdul razzaq, asif mujtaba, england, ireland, new zealand, pakistan, south africa, sri lanka, tie, zimbabwe on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The tie is the rarest of cricket results, but when there is one, drama is guaranteed. From Asif Mujtaba’s last ball six to South Africa throwing away a place in the World Cup final, cricket ties are far more exciting than their sartorial namesakes.
Sometimes a tie can involve a team coming back from a seemingly [...]
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Now that Shane Warne has decided to quit First Class cricket, here are some of his finest moments.
Warne, of course, burst into Test cricket’s collective consciousness with ‘The Ball of the Century‘, and it wasn’t long before he was annihilating batting line-ups on a regular basis. He was always a match-winner, and in the One-Day [...]
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There are, in my opinion, two types of run out.
There is the type which is due to fantastic fielding, which South Africa seem to specialise in: see this AB Devillers effort, this flying leap from Jonty Rhodes, or similar athleticism from Herschelle Gibbs for proof. Even their domestic cricket seems to be full of [...]
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There’s not much more embarrassing for a batsman than leaving one or playing a solid defensive shot, only to see or hear the bails (or worse, the stumps) removed behind you.
This tends to happen more often to teams like Bangladesh, but it can also happen to such batting luminaries as Graeme Smith and (spectacularly) Sachin [...]
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Posted in youtube, tagged anil kumble, australia, curtly ambrose, england, ian botham, india, jim laker, new zealand, pakistan, ryan sidebottom, west indies on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ryan Sidebottom has has taken a hat-trick against New Zealand to finish the 4th day with second-innings figures of 5-37.
Even if he takes both of New Zealand’s remaining wickets with the first two balls of the 5th day, he’ll still be some way short of Curtly Ambrose’s 7 for 1 against Australia.
Other top-notch bowling performances [...]
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