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The hard sell that is the summer of cricket

thetoydepartment wrote 2 months ago: By ASHLEY BROWNE Before long, the Channel Nine hype-machine will swing into overdrive, building exci … more →

Tags: Cricket, Channel Nine, SCG, James Sutherland, Pakistan, West Indies

Marvellous Shot, That!9 comments

nestaquin wrote 3 months ago: The Benauds Happily Resplendent in their White, Cream, Ivory and Bone Jackets Handing out white, cre … more →

Tags: Australia, Cricket, nesta quin, Champions Trophy, 99.94, 2009

October 6 in history

homepaddock wrote 3 months ago: On October 6: 1769 Nicholas Young, ship’s boy on the Endeavour, was the first to spot land in … more →

Tags: History, Wikipedia, pen, Gerry Adams, NZ History Online, Thomas Edison, october 6, Young Nick's Head, Nicholas young

More Errors Of A Doyen

Dmitri Old wrote 4 months ago: I had to attend a very interesting meeting today up in Liverpool Street, so I had a couple of train … more →

Tags: Australia, Book Reviews, Ashes, Ponting, Walk When I Want Gilchrist

Do ex-players make better presenters or commentators? 3 comments

notthefootyshow wrote 4 months ago: The Ashes series finally draws to a close and now we have the one-day series to look forward to, but … more →

Tags: Other, Simon Hill, Fox Sports, commentators, Bill MacLaren, Nigel Starmer-Smith, Gordon Bray, Hugh Bladon, john arlott

Doubling Up...

Dmitri Old wrote 5 months ago: I signed up to the local library today – first time I have been there in 20 odd years – … more →

Tags: England, Australia, Ashes, Adelaide Oval, Ponting, langer

Errors Of A Doyen....1 comment

Dmitri Old wrote 5 months ago: The word “doyen” could have been designed for Richie Benaud. As a commentator on my favourite sport, … more →

Tags: Dmitri Rants About Cricket, TV/Radio Coverage, Book Review

Ashes to the Aussies, England to dust

Christy Bharath wrote 5 months ago: Finally, some cricket that I can sink my teeth into. After months and months of tolerating the Twent … more →

Tags: Sports, Twenty 20 nonsense, 2009 Ashes series, Freddie Flintoff, Simon Katich, S Ramesh’s career, your favourite Indian cricketer, Mark Ramprakash, Paul Reifel

Tied Test at The Gabba 45 comments

hitchwriter wrote 7 months ago:   In this era of T-20 cricket I dont know if this post finds any takers… but I have just been … more →

Tags: ramblings, 19.60, Gabba, tied test match, West Indies, Australia, Gary Sobers, Wes Hall, Alan Davidson

Benson & Hedges World Series Cricket

US Cricketer wrote 7 months ago: Back to All Cricket Videos Introduction Started in 1979… 1983-84 1984-85 1986-87 88-89 90-91 9 … more →

Tags: Cricket, Cricket Highlights, Cricket Videos, Sachin Tendulkar, IPL 2009, Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Benson and Hedges World Series Cricket, Australia Cricket Series

One of these things is (kinda) like the other thing...

Injera wrote 7 months ago: Channel 9’s cricket intro: Eskimo Joe’s “Foreign Land”: Every time I hear … more →

Tags: Cricket, Eskimo Joe

GridView Sorting Event Handler Called Twice on one OnSorting Event6 comments

baraholka1 wrote 9 months ago: This Is Not An Excuse, It’s a REASON. It’s been three and a half years since I coded in … more →

Tags: event handlers, GridView, redundancy

Richie Benaud to hang up his boots

12th Man wrote 10 months ago: Richie Benaud, commentator extraordinaire, and probably one of the few reasons we like to watch the … more →

Tags: Farewell, Commentary team, Channel Nine, stepping down

no Ritchie, no5 comments

JH wrote 10 months ago: Heaven knows there’s been plenty to get upset about this month, but this has really got me whe … more →

Tags: Running, Politics, Smoke, Cricket

Richie Benaud to call stumps on all cricket commentary

calvininjax wrote 10 months ago: By Calvin Palmer Richie  Benaud, the voice of cricket in England and Australia for nearly half a cen … more →

Tags: media, News, Sports, BBC, Australia, Cricket, Nine Network, 2GB, commentator

Bill Frindall

Dave Faulkner wrote 11 months ago: Two days, two sad deaths. Yesterday, John Martyn. Today, Bill Frindall. The man who combined two of … more →

Tags: Sports, bill frindall, Jim Laker, john arlott, Brian Johnston, Cathy Rawson

The secret lies behind those stumps 8 comments

tanamania wrote 1 year ago: December 30, 2008 was a very special day for the world of cricket. The South African team defeated t … more →

Tags: Cricket, Adam Gilchrist, Andy Flower, Australian cricket, Clive Lloyd, Dhoni, Imran Khan, Kapil Dev, Kiran More

Mitchell Johnson you absolute monster!

Peter Della Penna wrote 1 year ago: It was 4:15 am and not much was happening on the east coast of America. South Africa was in control … more →

Tags: South Africa Tour of Australia 2008-09, Australia, South Africa, Brett Lee, Cricket, ricky ponting, mitchell johnson, Tony Grieg, Mark Taylor

No Time for Games5 comments

nestaquin wrote 1 year ago: The promised review of the hastily arranged and undoubtedly entertaining Pakistan – Bangladesh … more →

Tags: Australia, Cricket, Zimbabwe, nesta quin, India, nestaquin, baggygreen, Pakistan, South Africa


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