sp's moment of the opening match...
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what else but the sight of CHE'teshwar pujara... walking down at the fall of
first wicket...
though he has been with kolkata knight riders since the beginn...
IPL blackout in Pakistan
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By Osman Samiuddin Geo Super, Pakistan’s only local sports channel, is not broadcasting this year’s IPL after cable operators in Pakistan threatened to boyco...
The price is right
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This year's Twenty20 World Cup gives the ICC a chance to put the things
right it got so horribly wrong in 2007, writes Mike Selvey in the *Guardian*
.
It...
IPL points to a bleak future for cricket
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There's nothing new in the power of money shaping cricket's destiny. It's
230 years since Thomas Lord put a fence around his ground and began charging
admi...
another reason to hate ipl...
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i came across this article of dilip premchandran... IPL fortunes threaten to
lay waste to Bangladesh's potential stars... the premise of his article is
sum...
Dual between Sachin and Warne
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The clock would stop today when the magical dual between Sachin Tendulkar
and Shane Warne would take place in the IPL game between MI and RR.
What a dual...
IPL3 - A Pleasant Surprise
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The IPL Governing Council's Lalit Modi's decision to schedule the opening
match of IPL3 in Mumbai, a home match for Hyderabad's Deccan Chargers, was
potent...
READING BETWEEN THE SHEETS
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Is Dermott Brereton opening a can of Pandoras? "If Michael Clarke is the vice-captain of Australia, is captain of the Twenty20, he's got a responsibility to ...
The IPL has started
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There was Lionel Ritchie singing with his microphone turned down. And other
western acts. Some drag queen dancing acts, except with the drag queens.
Bollyw...
Sofa, so good – The Trumpet talks
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Like all the best ideas, in retrospect it seems obvious, but the idea is
only the first boundary in a 300+ run chase. Daniel Norcross had the idea
that the...
Cricket for beginners
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I can't get today's IPL opener to play on YouTube - great start there - but while browsing through the site I did come across this clip of some truly woeful ...
Neunundneunzig runs
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When it comes to batting tragedies (or comedies, or tragi-comedies, take
your pick) there is nothing quite like a 99. The first one I ever saw was the
one ...
!PL 2010: Match 01: KKR vs DC
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Scorecard
Manoj Tiwary chips one off his toes first ball, uppish and into the
midwicket's hands!
Vaas is the bowler.
Whatta start!
Dada perishes...follo...
Cricket books and masters of the game
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Cricket fans living in the United States used to complain about lack of
access to the game. Well, we got live telecasts (on satellite and broadband
video...
Stat of the day
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Population of Bangladesh: 160,000,000
Number of bowling machines in Bangladesh: 4
From TMS this morning. That's why they can all bowl spin...
IPL 2010
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Shit, the IPL starts tomorrow morning! I don’t have time to preview it, but
I can link to this little summary. I’m following Kolkata again. They’re
hilarious.
Crazy cricket ahead as IPL3 rides into town
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There's cricket, there's T20 cricket, then there's the IPL.
That crazy cricket carny comes to town tonight and as much as I loathe Danny
Morrison's DLFfers...
Great Minds Think Alike
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And then of course there are the average minds that are all over the place
like a mad woman's washing.
I do think they have a plan, it is just that they l...
Crime and Punishment II
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PCB wants us to believe that the Greenshirts are basically a
cloak-and-dagger society. And that the innocent pastimes of its denizens
include spiking each ...
Certainty Falls
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Slumps in form have been around for as long as people have been batting.
Better players than Kevin Pietersen have endured longer spells in the
batting dold...
Freddie Flintoff Video Interview
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Thanks to Adrian and the guys over at Sportsvibe TV for letting me know
about their recent video interview with Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff. Here it
is for y...
Kolkata Knight Riders New Purple Jersey: IPL 2010
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The Shahrukh Khan co-owned Kolkata Knight Riders team has not had a very
happy time in the two previous editions of the IPL. While they have during
both t...
How will you know?
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How will you know you’re a bored cricket crazy Indian
Will the doctor diagnose you, will the teacher teach you
Will you go with the flow of the stream
Walk i...
Glamorgan joy and Kent gloom
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THE loan of "several hundred thousand pounds" by Kent chairman George
Kennedy to his county club after their horrendous loss in 2009 underlined
that the ...
THE SERIES IS A WRAP & YOUR OPINIONS PLEASE
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There is still one ODI to go, but Punter and the boys have taken the series.
3-1 is the standing and it looks good for the boys with another ODI series
vict...
Younus and Yousuf banned for life
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Younus Khan and Mohammad Yousuf have been banned from representing Pakistan
again after the recent catastrophic tour of Australia.
Pakistan lost the Tes...
It’s a cover up
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The Pakistan Cricket Board has barred former captains Mohammad Yousuf and
Younis Khan from the national team indefinitely for behaviour they say
contribute...
ICC in a quandary over Nepal riot
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The ICC has dismissed criticism it was too slow to react to the crowd
trouble which marred the match between Nepal and USA in Kirtipur in the ICC
World C...
IPL Season-3 Preview: A few heartbeats away
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Season-3 of the IPL is on us. We know it the moment we see Lalit Modi’s face
and hear his lisp everywhere. The papers, TV Channels and Twitterdom are
full ...
Cook's amazing buffet
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[image: England Nets Session]
*I do love a good bit of declaration bowling.*
It's a scenario that recreational cricketers know all too well: the team
batti...
RIP Muslim Kanji
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It is regret that we learn of the passing of ex Kenyan International Muslim
Kanji who passed away in London two days ago.
Muslim was a former Kenya Cricke...
ITV buys IPL – free cricket on terrestrial TV
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Some heartening news that I didnt expect. ITV has secured UK broadcast
rights to the 2010 Indian Premier League cricket competition, to be shown
exclusivel...
Mitchell Johnson is the new Harry Houdini
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In December 2009, Sulieman Benn, Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson were
involved in a downright ugly altercation at the WACA test. Johnson wasn't
really the...
A wedding, a final and a semi final
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One was watching the finals of the T10 Gully cricket league played between
Ludhiana and Jalandhar on the weekend. It says a lot about one’s love for
ANY fo...
TED Talk: The rise of cricket, the rise of India
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The tale of a major global cultural phenomenon: Cricket commentator Harsha
Bhogle describes the spectacular arrival of fast-paced 20-20 cricket as it
paral...
It’s F1 time
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Not since November has the sporting calendar looked so good. Nay, great! Hot
on the heels of the IPL kicking off this weekend, it will also be F1 time.
I’m...
3 (superstitious) Idiots: Sourav, Aamir, Sachin
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In addition to cricket, I am also a big fan of Aamir Khan, an innovative and
phenomenal Bollywood actor/director/producer, and the only one, IMO, who’s
mai...
Great Start for England
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England has begun their tour of Bangladesh well with a clean sweep in the
one-dayers. Bangladesh put up a good fight but in the end England had too
much fi...
Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting
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Sometime back, I tried to analyze whether Ricky Ponting could overtake
Sachin Tendulkar in Tests. At that time, the stats stood at Player Tests
Runs Avg 10...
The Little Master does it again
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Just when you think Tendulkar can't get any better... he does.
The Little Master ripped through the South African bowling attack to become
the first player...
ODI Cricket Conquered by Tendulkar
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For the third time in less than a year, Sachin Tendulkar came within
striking distance of an ODI double hundred at Gwalior. He reached his
hundred in the...
Highest Test cricket series average - record
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HIGHEST TEST SERIES AVERAGE
HM Amla with an average of 490 in the recently concluded test series vs
India has become the second highest series average owne...
Just One More to Go
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Just one more match to go in this dull 50-over summer. Five games against
Pakistan and now four more against West Indians haven’t provided
entertainment of...
One all!
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Unless god intervenes, either by reincarnating himself in the form of one or
more of the South African batsmen, or more simply, be letting torrents of
rain...
No highlights only casino spotlight
-
The ongoing second test between India and South Africa is bound to get over
in at the most a couple of days later. And from then onwards, the one day
serie...
Turn, Turn, Turn...
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Is what I expect at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata for the 2nd test between India
and the Saffers.
I don't care if the world screams "not fair".
Shut up.
Why s...
USA cricket - where to from here?
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The dust has settled on the U-19 World Cup, and it’s about time that we
started looking critically at where we are, and what we need to do. This is
a bit...
Change of Nickname
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Well, with the CA & NZC contemplating the possibility of nominating John
Howard as the President of the ICC after 2011, I’ve decided to shed my
nickname of...
On The Road: Part II
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Luke Pentony had the chance to join the Garmin-Transitions support team for
a 'behind-the-scenes' look during the Tour Down Under. Click here to
download P...
Surprise! We were rubbish after all
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Somehow, England have blagged their way to test match success throughout
2009. They live not so much a charmed life, but a life over-brimming with
rabbit f...
harper is stranger than fiction
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Darrel Harper is in a weird mood these days. It’s almost as if he is aware
of how much the world hates him, and he is out on a mission to piss the
world of...
America's First Cricket Stadium (with pics)
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[Updated to add a few pics directly in this post...scroll to bottom]
So I was visiting Miami a few days back (great place btw - everyone should
go there if...
Enlightenment
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When I first started this blog a year or two back, my primary aim was to
vent to no-one in particular my frustration about the series between
Australia and...
Enlightenment
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When I first started this blog a year or two back, my primary aim was to
vent to no-one in particular my frustration about the series between
Australia and...
Come On Windies!
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Coming into this test match, this was possibly the best chance Windies had
altogether. Now they are facing a tough task ahead with 51 runs more needed
and ...
A new spin on Australian-Idol
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http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26468065-952,00.htmlSo who would judge this?I don't care as long as Ritchie Benaud is there!Update:Matthew H...
INDIA VS SRILANKA 1ST T20 2009
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ANGAKKARAS KNOCK PROVED TO BE A BOON FOR SRILANKA_ Sri Lanka on this
wednesday manage to register their first win of the tour by winning the
first twenty20...
'I want to do something special'
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Not good enough, simple as that.
I can say though, tonight, I was ‘balls out’ going for it, and I felt great.
I’ll be going ‘balls out’ tomorrow too. I ...
Reeza Hendricks Gets His 4th Hundred
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Another up and coming youngster is Reeza Hendrcks, who at 20 years, has
scored 4 hundreds so far in first class cricket, with the lastest against
the Warri...
My Tendulkar Experience
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I like writing my Tendulkar posts on days when he doesn’t score too many.
That’s when there is a lull in the torrent of posts about him. This one is
about ...
England batsmen to blame for conceding 240?
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South Africa scored a mammoth 240 in the 2nd Twenty20 International, yet
England's batsmen are being asked to answer for the failure of the bowlers
India vs Australia, 2009 – 3rd ODI (Full Highlights)
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India take a 2-1 lead beating Australia by 6 wickets at Feroze Shah Kotla in
Delhi. Yuvraj Singh was given man of the match. Part 1 Powered By Wordpress
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http://iainobrien.co.nz/
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If you didn't know, this blog has moved.
*http://iainobrien.co.nz/*
It contains the usual blog as well as some photos that I've been taking.
Get across...
Back in Action
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Yeah, I haven’t posted in like 6 months. Doing all this blog stuff was way
too much work and I just didn’t have the time, although I probably could
have po...
A shot across the bows
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In a development that slipped unnoticed past the radar of the mainstream
cricket media in India, the international players’ association has trashed
the lat...
Get a Hundred Part 1
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Our summer club season just began last week. Now at the beginning of each
season, I set myself some sort of goal. Two seasons ago, I began an experiment
...
Get a Hundred Part 1
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Our summer club season just began last week. Now at the beginning of each
season, I set myself some sort of goal. Two seasons ago, I began an experiment
...
Silly Maid Is Movin'
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Yessir...I have been charmed by Wordpress and the idea of having my own
domain name.
You can find me at www.sillymaidon.com now. Please update your feeds a...
James Anderson, wrong.
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Anderson describes 6-0 scoreline in favour of Australia as ‘flattering’. I
describe James Anderson as ‘missing the point’. Perhaps he thinks 5-0 would
be a...
Amy's last post
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Amy had begun writing a post a few days before she passed away. It was a few
words long and uncompleted, as it spoke of creating a Wordle, a graphical
repr...
The Hometown Umpiring Advantage - Why?
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OK, a quick question; why do home teams get such an advantage in 50/50 calls
from the umpires?
If we look back over recent series, almost every time the ho...
Kevin Pietersen’s recovery delayed
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England’s key batsman Kevin Pietersen’s who was earlier dropped out of the
Ashes series after the second test due to Achilles injury is suffering from
post...
SuperFred gets a Brazillian
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Couldn’t help myself… Share on FacebookRelated Posts:Crap Lookalikes -
Andrew Flintoff is a Brazillian StatueHow shit is Mitch?Not so super
FredCameron Whi...
Uncommontators
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There used to be a time when Henry Blofeld and Tony Greig were primarily the
only ones who'd get behind the microphone even during matches where teams of...
South Africa - Continues….
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History is going to repeat for SA once again, or what??? Won all the
previous matches and lose semi or final…. 1st semi…PAK Vs. SA. PAK is in
commanding po...
Wake up call went unanswered
-
Hardly a word was spoken in the team coach last night. Other than Prince who
was grumbling about going in too late to bat. He was mostly talking to
himself...
In the International Spotlight...Panama Cricket
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[image: Photobucket]
The Panamanian cricket team is the team that represents the country of
Panama in international cricket matches. They became an affilia...
Change of address
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It’s happening all over Bombay and other metros: old buildings being torn
down and replaced by towering new structures. Now it’s the turn of my online
ho...
Who Can Beat India?
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Its difficult to repeat. Which means someone has to beat this Indian side.
Who can beat a side that has Sehwag, Praveen Kumar and RP Singh on the
bench?
...
Please excuse my bragging
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But how can I help myself? Deccan won.
They won.
They won.
They won.
THEY WON!!
OMG, OMG, OMG. I told you so!!
In the 2008 season, they were last. But ...
We can defeat England in ODIs
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*Chris Gayle*
Hi everyone,
We’re all very disappointed we lost the Test but looking back we can see
where we went wrong. We let ourselves down in the fi...
KKR's team management is an ass
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Filed under: India, Domestic Cricket
Let me first emphasize that I don't find the concept of multiple captains to
be ridiculous. I think that as more ide...
IPL 2: Un-performances: Games 21 to 40
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*Game 21: Deccan Chargers vs. Delhi Daredevils*
DD make heavy weather of their chase, but manage to bring the requirement
down to 38 off 24 balls. Not i...
Bottoms up to the Panamanian Women Cricket team
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Having thrown my lot with Chennai Super Kings openly, I have often wondered
what to do if they fail to reach the semi-finals.
The most obvious thing would ...
Invitation to Post
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England's "New" Coach
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I know this is a bit late but I thought I'd add my thoughts on Andy Flower's
appointment as England coach. It initially appeared to be a somewhat
last-ditc...
White Mischief Gals to cheer Pietersen in इप्ल!
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"Necklines plunging, hemlines rising, they are all set to let the mercury
soar, higher than any of the sixes that come from the blades of Kevin
Pietersen...
Better than 05
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Move over 2005 Ashes, we have a new "best series ever".
Three wins apiece. Each won two away Tests and one home Test. The scoreline
sums it up brilliantly,...
New cricket stats analysis blog
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While I'm being lazy and not doing any real updates (I am getting closer to
writing all the readme files etc. for my database), you can get your stats
fix ...
World Cup Education Program
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The ICC Women's World Cup Education Program aims to promote the game of
cricket to boys and girl across Australia through schools.
This free of charge reso...
Ben on...my new cricket blog
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Uh oh! Mike's back to reclaim his blog. I'd better get out here.
I've now set up my own cricket blog:
[image: Crucket: www.crucket.co.nz]
You'll find it a...
Ifs and Buts
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What could have happened.
Ponting could have bowled Watto with Krazzo. India would have set Aus a
target of 269 instead of 369, and Aus would have chased it...
Of Milestones and Missed Chances....
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On any other day, Mohali should have been a perfect venue for any speedster,
if at all it came to making his debut in India. For Peter Siddle, the first
de...
Greetings
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We've been away a while.
We know it's distressed some of you, and for that we are sorry.
Especially to you Calum, because we forgot your birthday as well, a...
Asia Cup 2008: Meet TheVVinners (MTVV)
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The winner of the Asia Cup 2008 Edition of Cricinfo Fantasy Cricket is
BigBrown and The Coolies. How politically incorrect is that? You gotta
admit, though...
Why Australia should reject Warne
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IF Jeff Fenech and The Pixies can do it, it shouldn’t come as a shock that
Shane Warne is planning a comeback. Still, hearing the…
The Googly - slip, sliding away...
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[image: Thelonggoodbye] After a good couple of years today is the day that
we reach the end of our road (for now). I have thoroughly enjoyed every
minut...
1 year ago
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