‘At least 19,000‘ may have been killed by an earthquake in Pakistan. England’s newly popular cricket team are playing in Pakistan in a month’s time. Please, someone, find a way of using this to raise a lot of money for charity. Who’ll be the first bank to offer a donation for each run scored by [...]
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Cricket
7 October 2005 – 11:33 pm
Oh look, the horse has bolted. Now would be a good time to close the stable door.
cricket poetry
20 September 2005 – 2:49 pm
A couple of people have found this blog by googling ‘cricket poetry’. Well, I have one poem of my own that features cricket, and I wandered across this (very bad) poem on th’internet, but I can’t immediately think of any others except for this one, written about 1900, which I know is very well-known in [...]
One last Ashes post
14 September 2005 – 6:00 pm
All summer, every time I saw the scar on Ricky Ponting’s cheek, it was like a symbol of the lost innocence of Australian cricket.
Note to Wayne Rooney: if you can win us the World Cup, you’ll be able to turn up to 10 Downing Street so pissed you can barely walk straight and everyone will [...]
The Golden Ticket
11 September 2005 – 4:26 pm
At the start of the summer, it was uncertain whether this would be a very useful object:
Aus 367 all out
11 September 2005 – 1:49 pm
… from 277-2 overnight. That was like watching the old England - a real proper batting collapse. Magnificent bowling from Flintoff and Hoggard. Just a worry now what the Aussie seamers can do in the same conditions.
Oval day 2; Aus 112-0 at tea
9 September 2005 – 3:19 pm
The great thing about cricket is that it’s so finely balanced; there’s almost never a situation where the fall of a wicket wouldn’t shift the balance of the game. Hint to England - now would be a good moment.
England vs. Australia and Northern Ireland
7 September 2005 – 1:16 pm
In a three-sided match of foocket. I visualise Wayne Rooney as a flamboyant middle-order batsman and Glenn McGrath as a goalkeeper.
I actually don’t have any thoughts about the footie, other than that it would be nice to see England hand out a real thrashing for once. It’s not like Northern Ireland have got a Pat [...]
I’m back.
4 September 2005 – 10:43 pm
I’ve come back from Perigord to the grim news from New Orleans. I don’t really have anything to say about that, for the moment.
I did manage to listen to the cricket on Radio4 LW via a buzzy little radio. I ended up having to hold it out of an upstairs window and nearly had [...]
Come on, Freddie!
26 August 2005 – 10:21 am
Last summer Flintoff demonstrated that he’s capable of playing himself in and getting big centuries. Now let’s see him do it again. And let’s be greedy - KP hasn’t got a test century yet.
Gillespie out for Trent Bridge test
24 August 2005 – 12:51 pm
I feel for Gillespie, a bit. He’s clearly deeply commited to the Aussie cause and has been heroic with the bat. But as an England supporter I’m sorry to see him go because Tait sounds like he could be a handful - although they’ve been coping quite well with Lee so far, and Tait seems [...]
Football vs. cricket
20 August 2005 – 1:55 pm
There’s a football vs. cricket discussion over at Corridor of Uncertainty. Not surprisingly, since it’s a cricket blog, everyone is saying how wonderful cricket is and how much football could learn from it.
But I still think that for moments of sheer, jaw-dropping brilliance, football is streets ahead of cricket, just because it’s less structured. Even [...]
the Ashes
15 August 2005 – 8:40 pm
My father has a ticket for the fifth day of the Oval Test. If there’s still something to play for then, he could be in for one hell of an atmosphere.
Old Trafford test day 4
14 August 2005 – 8:25 pm
England really have to win this. Both because it’s not good enough to draw the series, and because to be so much in control of the game and not win it would be a psychological boost to the Aussies. With Australia batting for a draw, Gillespie is clearly the danger man.
I was (slightly) sad [...]
England win by 2 (two) runs
8 August 2005 – 9:39 am
2! I shouted so much when the last wicket fell that I strained my throat. One of the greatest sporting events I have ever seen. Brett Lee batted brilliantly to almost save it but, thankfully, it wasn’t quite enough.
Edgbaston day three
6 August 2005 – 10:58 pm
When Flintoff was injured and was down to bowlers at the other end, I thought to myself “the script is set up perfectly for him to produce a matchwinning innings”. But I didn’t think it would actually happen.
Edgbaston day two
5 August 2005 – 8:09 pm
After two days’ play, 740 runs have been scored and 21 wickets have fallen. What kind of cricket is this?
a cheerful thing
31 July 2005 – 2:56 pm
If someone told you they had scored 55 runs in an over at Lord’s, you’d think they were some kind of delusional fantasist (via Corridor of Uncertainty). I was grinning all morning at the fact that things like this can actually happen. A bit like a 15 year old being seven under par going into [...]
ground by ground comparison
27 July 2005 – 5:13 pm
England’s win/loss ratios for Test matches at different grounds in the past 30 years.
The stat is W/L ratio. You can get full details at cricinfo’s remarkable StatsGuru.
Edgbaston (all) - 1.57 Edgbaston (vs. Aus) - 1.00
Headingley (all) - 0.83 Headingley (Aus) - 1.33
Lord’s (all) - 1.07 Lord’s (Aus) - 0.00
Old Trafford [...]