As regular readers of this blog may have noticed, I enjoy cricket and collect cricket trivia. I do obscure cricket-y things like remember sundry batting averages and how Don Bradman was dismissed in his last innings (bowled). I’ve also played at a moderately high standard, including for Oxford University, and still get an immense kick [...]
Someone listened to his cricket coach as a kid: A British soldier has described how he picked up a Taliban hand grenade which landed at his feet and threw it back towards the enemy. Rifleman James McKie was on a tiny rooftop in Sangin. He and two of his platoon could hear the bullets fired [...]
November 9, 2009 – 7:18 pm
If you’ve been following Australia’s cricketing efforts in India, you’d know that this bloke has been bowling exceptionally well and seems to be at the point where he’s moving onto bigger and brighter things. However, I don’t want to address his cricketing ability (of which he obviously has a considerable amount) but the ribbing he’s [...]
Australian quick bowler Peter Siddle tries out his media talents when he talks to a bloke in Delhi who has half the Australian team completely down pat. Look out for the Ricky Ponting rip-off in particular — Siddle completely loses the plot and the whole thing dissolves into a memorable exercise in the giggles.
As part of my college’s 500th anniversary celebrations, sundry sporty types (fellows, students and alums) got together at Lord’s this week to celebrate. In matters cricketing, Colin Cowdrey is Brasenose’s most notable graduate, although there have been others who starred at county level, or as administrators. I’d never been to Lord’s before — not even [...]
There’s a lengthy and surprisingly bitter thread over at Larvatus Prodeo on two related but conceptually distinct phenomena. The first concerns cultural and racial stereotyping. The second concerns the safety advice police widely give to those who have a greater risk of being victims of crime. The post is a thoughtful one (written by regular [...]
Chris Broad has said he is extremely angrily about the lack of security in Pakistan after witnessing Tuesday’s terror attack in Lahore. The former England batsman was match referee for the Pakistan-Sri Lanka third Test and was in a vehicle with other officials when they came under fire. In a press conference Mr Broad described [...]
Despite Imran Khan’s repeated assertions that terrorists would never attack cricketers in Pakistan (even though the Taliban frowned on the game), terrorists have fired on the Sri Lankan team’s tour bus in Lahore, killing several local police officers and wounding several of the players, two seriously. Understandably, the Test currently underway has been abandoned, the [...]
January 12, 2009 – 1:42 am
Yes, I found a cricket angle. Sad but true. The graphic at left was generated by the genius that is Tony the Teacher over at the After Grog Blog (and do follow the link; a beautiful funny awaits you there, quite apart from the picture). The cricketing point that Tony and his commenters make helps to [...]
December 30, 2008 – 3:26 am
I’ve been watching from afar as Australia’s cricketing fortunes have taken a tumble over the last few series. All sorts of prognostications and punditry have been engaged in by all sorts, but for me, it’s pretty simple. What goes up must come down. We had a lengthy period in the sun, one which is now [...]
