12 Jun 2010: Duckworth and Lewis receive Birthday Honours MBEs
Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis have been appointed members of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s birthday honours list in recognition of their services to cricket.
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10 Jun 2010: Quote of the day: 10/06/2010
“The best bit by far was being asked to umpire an Essex County under-ten boys’ match last Sunday at Chigwell School where I stood with Bill Taylor and was paid, like a true umpire” – Hugo Bloggs, the youngest person ever to pass the umpiring exam.
11 May 2010: Quote of the day: 11/05/2010
“Mann tracht und Gott lacht” (Man plans and God laughs) – Betfair Blog’s Frank Gregan applies an old Yiddish saying to the Duckworth Lewis Method.
5 May 2010: Quote of the day: 5/05/2010
“While Paul Collingwood may have been angry at Messrs Duckworth and Lewis, he might have been angry at Messrs Bresnan, Swann and co who added to the four wides that they bowled before the rain by adding four more wides. So, the West Indies target wasn’t just 60, it was effectively 52″ – Frank Duckworth, speaking to Wisden, defends his Method.
4 May 2010: Quote of the day: 4/05/2010
“There’s a major problem with [Duckworth Lewis] in Twenty20″ – Paul Collingwood after England set a total of 191-5 against the West Indies only to see rain intervene and the hosts required to get 30 runs off 22 balls.
4 May 2010: ICC World Twenty20: We was robbed. Or was we?
The Nurdler is feeling philosophical this morning about England’s curious (to put it nicely) defeat at the hands of the West Indies in the ICC World Twenty20 last night. And here’s why.
31 Mar 2010: Quote of the day: 31/03/2010
“The MCC has been great in initiating trials around the world, but before we look at these projects we need to establish up front, from a scientific point of view, what makes sense” – Dave Richardson, ICC general manager of cricket.
11 Feb 2010: Quote of the day: 11/02/2010
“I would ask someone to explain to me why ball-tampering is still illegal, but since I don’t get it, I’ll stick to expressing my bewilderment. At a time when cricket has increasingly become a batsman dominated game, when the single biggest threat to Test cricket is not the IPL or T20 but the roads that are routinely produced by groundsmen the world over, what precisely is the case against ball-tampering?” – Samir Chopra poses a controversial question on the Different Strokes blog.
2 Feb 2010: Quote of the day: 2/02/2010
“Perhaps teams now accompanied by physical trainers, coaches, managers, computer analysts, psychologists, might need to carry a moral guide too. Someone who can teach the players to tell right from wrong. Some individuals need such advice more than others. Clearly Afridi is one of them” – Suresh Menon writes for DreamCricket.com on the Afridi ball-chewing incident.
11 Jan 2010: Quote of the day: 11/01/2010
“Stuart Broad has the reddish complexion of a man who grew up holding his breath a lot when he didn’t get what he wanted. I can just imagine the exasperated Mrs Broad wailing at her satanic little son to “just wait until your father gets home”, a threat to which he could gleefully counter with the information that Dad is on tour to New Zealand and won’t be home for months” – Harris Harrison suggests on his blog that maybe Broad Junior needs to be careful where he treads in future, whether the ball is turning or not.