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Friday, July 03,2009
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North finds touch
Australia has looked narcoleptic at times during this match.
But some cool shit has happened to the players who are awake.
Michael Hussey came back from the wilderness.
Brett Lee proved earnestness can produce wickets.
And now Marcus North, their major form worry, has made a calm hundred.
Sure Phillip Hughes can’t play short or ...
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| Cricket With Balls - 2 min ago |
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India prevails in tense finish
India sealed a tense six wicket Duckworth/Lewis victory off the penultimate delivery in a match which must hold some obscure record for the most rain interruptions. Chasing 186 for victory from 27 overs, the Indian target was reduced to 159 from 22 overs after the fifth rain interruption. Captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, marshalled his team to victory with an unbeaten 46 from 34 balls with two bound[...]
| Caribbean Cricket - 22 min ago |
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England win the Blogger's Ashes
For those who seek omens at this stage of the build-up to an Ashes campaign, a fairly sizeable one was on display at Barnes Cricket Club last week, when England beat Australia by 28 runs … in the inaugural Blogger’s Ashes. The match was a 30-over-a-side affair, arranged by the men behind the Village Cricketer and Cricket with Balls blogs. England batted first and made 202 for 8, with Ed Craig,[...]
| The Buzz - 2 hr 22 min ago |
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question for the ashes
If Harmy (and Pepsi Sandri) has worked Phil Hughes out, why do I have an over whelming feeling to back him for most runs in the series?
| Cricket With Balls - 3 hr 2 min ago |
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The guardian gets funny
No, really.
"'This clown's a Twitter batsman – 140 seconds maximum and then it's over'
Peter Siddle to Monty Panesar
'Mate, did they take the excess hair from your arms to fix your bald spot?'
Kevin Pietersen to Ricky Ponting
'Ever wonder who's going to pay for Stanford's bail? I'd check the joint account if ...
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| Cricket With Balls - 3 hr 2 min ago |
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Andy Zaltzman’s BBC show, “Yes It’s The Ashes”
Andy Zaltzman - comic, Bugler, cricket blogger - starts his own BBC radio show tomorrow, at 11am on BBC Radio Five Live. It’s called either “Yes It’s The Ashes” or “Andy Zaltzman’s Alternative Ashes”, I’m not sure which.
He’s slightly lining his underwear about it, but I’m sure it’ll be sharp, different and entertaining - so
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| The Corridor - 3 hr 22 min ago |
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Siddle axes chopping
Peter Siddle is being painted as the next Merv Hughes in some sections of England and there is a thirst like Big Merv’s in his playing days for details on the latest Victorian fast bowler. Siddle isn’t playing in Worcester and is resting before the first Test, so he was on Sky at tea speaking about his childhood hobby of woodchopping.
“There’s not much to it,” he said. “It’s a littl[...]
| Tour Diaries - 4 hr 2 min ago |
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Sri Lanka vs Pakistan: Test Series Preview
The build-up to the imminent Test series between Sri Lanka and Pakistan may have brought up memories of two recent meetings between the sides – the recent World Twenty20 final, and of course the sadly curtailed Test series of four months ago – but there’s change afoot for both sides.
For the hosts, Kumar Sangakkara takes
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| Spun Out - 5 hr 2 min ago |
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An absence of edginess
Security was not the intrusive, bothersome kind
© AFP
Think Sri Lanka, and you think ‘Cricket as Party’. Maybe the party-goers are too cool to feel excited about a Test match one day before the actual event. Maybe one has experienced the other extreme too often, the hysterical anticipation when India play. The fact is, it doesn’t seem there is [...]
| Tour Diaries - 6 hr 42 min ago |
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Bopara: We Are Ready For Wednesday
Ravi Bopara believes England will approach the opening Ashes Test with confidence after drawing their match against Warwickshire.
| Cricket 365 - 7 hr 21 min ago |
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ashes fact 5
Australia has no spinners in England, one is at home with his kid, another is not taking cocaine, and then Nathan Hauritz.
This is a terrible situation, but Andrew Hilditch and I have been working on a plan.
The raelians are experimenting in cloning, so Andrew and I flew over to nevada, ...
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| Cricket With Balls - 7 hr 42 min ago |
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Ashes YouTube clips
A potted cartoon history; memories of 2005; and1953; and the Bodyline tour. You want stellar performances too? How about Jim Laker’s 19 wickets in 1956? Or Michael Vaughan’s 183 at the SCG in 2003? Or David Boon murdering Once In A Lifetime? And to finish it all off, some of the greatest Ashes catches ever.
Courtesy of The Guardian.
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| The Corridor - 7 hr 42 min ago |
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Benj Moorehead: The court of King Kev
Much has been said about the hierarchical battles going on in the England dressing room, but journalists were left in no doubt of the pecking order during a visit to Edgbaston’s David Heath Suite on Monday.
Ten round tables filled the room (there was no Andrew Strauss), each with a player’s ...
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| The Wisden Cricketer Blog - 11 hr 2 min ago |
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Gavaskar Bemoans The Lure Of The IPL
Young Indian cricketers should focus on representing their country instead of being lured by the cash-rich IPL, Sunil Gavaskar has warned.
| Cricket 365 - 12 hr 42 min ago |
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ECB-Employed Buchanan Backs Punter
Former Australia coach John Buchanan may be working with the ECB, but he has no split loyalties for the Ashes.
| Cricket 365 - 13 hr 2 min ago |
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Pace Quartet Seam In Frame
SkySports pundit Mike Atherton expects Australia to play a fourth seamer ahead of Nathan Hauritz in the opening Ashes Test in Cardiff.
| Cricket 365 - 13 hr 2 min ago |
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Russell Backs Foster
Jack Russell told Sky Sports News that James Foster deserves an England Ashes place.
| Cricket 365 - 13 hr 41 min ago |
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Ashes 2005 5th Test at The Oval
For many people, this was the moment when England won the Ashes, but we didn’t see it like that. We actually found the whole Test - and the last day in particular - a slightly maudlin experience.
It was the last Test, a great Ashes series was nearly over and it was September, meaning no more
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| King Cricket - 13 hr 42 min ago |
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Ashes grounds rated
Lord's unsurprisingly ranks as the top ground for an Ashes Test while Sophia Gardens is one of the least preferred among 45 county cricketers surveyed in the London-based magazine Property Week.
3.) Headingley – 42.8%
The home of Yorkshire County Cricket Club scraped into third place by 0.4%. Only one of the 45 cricketers polled said it was his Ashes ground of choice. Five said it was second [...]
| The Surfer - 13 hr 42 min ago |
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Patel Injury Not Serious
The knee injury suffered by New Zealand spinner Jeetan Patel will not rule him out of the Black Caps upcoming tour of Sri Lanka.
| Cricket 365 - 14 hr 2 min ago |
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