Notes from the pavilion for October 19th
Links of note from the past 24 hours: Breaking: Rashid misses out on Test squad – Yorkshire Post – 19 minutes after the England squad announcement for their tour of Sri Lanka, the Yorkshire Post gets...
View ArticleClarke imitating Bradman’s one-stump trick
Not so much a trick as his actual training method when he was a youngster. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Clarke is featured in the latest TV commercial in Australia doing it. If anyone has a...
View ArticleNotes from the pavilion for October 20th
Links of note from the past 24 hours: Trevin Bastiampillai – What a brilliant name Howard gives $6.5m for Bradman museum – Don and Pup bring cricket history to life – Clarke does the one-stump trick...
View Article‘A ridiculously crowded international schedule’
Andrew Strauss has blamed his loss of form, luck and his Test place partly on the ‘ridiculously crowded international schedule’. He does not strike me as someone who gives up easily, or who minces his...
View ArticlePartisanship in commentary
Italians are wonderfully, unashamedly biased when commentating…but not often, to my knowledge, are they on the side of England. Ben Hammersley has an interesting tale of watching yesterday’s Rugby...
View ArticleA united Middle East, of sorts
Nice observation from Richard Sambrook on three friends united by journalism and varying degrees of trauma. I was talking to Alan Johnston earlier this week (yes he is as decent and remarkable as he...
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Bong: Trevor McDonald in shock comeback
Unconfirmed rumours from Channel 4 News (no less) that Trevor McDonald, the Trinidad-born newsreader and chum of cricket, is to come out of retirement to front ITV’s pathetic attempt to take on the...
View ArticleNotes from the pavilion for October 22nd
Links of note from the past 24 hours: Gatting’s MCC beat Cyprus…just – Mike’s actually getting <i>rounder</i> ‘We will have to play well to come out on top’ – So <i>that’s</i>...
View ArticleHarbhajan and Symonds find resolution
I don’t know why but Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds appear to have settled their differences. They’ve hooked up with a couple of lady friends and decided that the best way to resolve their spat is...
View ArticleNotes from the pavilion for October 23rd
Links of note from the past 24 hours: English cricket to assist addicts – Chappell attacks Botham. Again – Children, children… Geoffrey Legge – Brilliant line in this Almanack obit: ‘Lt. Geoffrey...
View ArticleNotes from the pavilion for October 24th
Links of note from the past 24 hours: Cricinfo – Players and Officials – Wilbur Slabber – Contender for the Most Humorously Named Cricketer award
View ArticleThe longest spat
I keep meaning to praise Ian Botham and Ian Chappell’s continued spat which reared its cheerful head the other day. Botham attacked Chappell in his book; Chappell heard about it and responded to a...
View ArticleAtherton moves to The Times
Mike Atherton has been announced as The Times’ chief cricket correspondent, replacing Christopher Martin-Jenkins. Atherton is the foremost player-turned-writer and, at 39, quite young to hold such a...
View ArticleVideo of Shahid Afridi’s 32 from 18
One in four people coming to this blog do so to find Shahid Afridi information. What makes this all the more unsettling is that I hardly ever mention the big winner but, to satisfy those of you who...
View ArticleBodyline: 75th anniversary
This winter marks the 75th anniversary of Bodyline and my boss, Martin Williamson, has single handedly documented the entire thing. It is a task which ought to take about a month, or more, but somehow...
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Supercat: Clive Lloyd’s biography
Supercat: the authorised biography of Clive Lloyd I remember bumping into Simon Lister, friend of the blog and all-round good egg, at Lord’s the summer before last. He told me he was writing Clive...
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Lloyd: ‘We became thoughtless’
Lloyd in his pomp West Indies are in a period of transition. They have been for a decade and will be for at least another ten years. Clive Lloyd, in his biography, insists that a restoration to work...
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Cullen Bailey: frog in a blender
Have a look at this photo Cullen Bailey, the South Australia leggie. Awful action. Part of the problem is the angle with which the photo has been taken…but nevertheless, where is he actually looking?...
View ArticleSpinning Murali
The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, is in the middle of an election campaign at the moment and I have just stumbled across a bloody good piece from Mike Ticher at The Guardian. Howard is a...
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