“Precisely why anyone would try headbutting a dude in a helmet isn’t clear” – Australia’s Mitchell Johnson and New Zealand’s Scott Styris seem to have mistaken cricket for all-in wrestling.
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“Lalit Modi works an 80-hour week or summat like that. He’s never even managed to watch a whole IPL game – only fragments. This is his world. He doesn’t realise that most of the rest of us are lucky if we put in eight hours of actual work in an entire working week. A Test match, played during the daytime, is the best way of avoiding work that there is. That is the modern world, Lalit; a world that revolves around the internet and finding ways to slack off” – King Cricket sets Lalit Modi right, on this and a few other things.
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“Of course he ran a country from 1996 to 2007, which qualifies a person for many things, but he now enters a complicated past-time on the basis of his diplomatic skills. In the meetings he will be a cricket fan in an executive chair made for people who have lived their lives deciding on matters at club, state and international level” – Cricinfo ruminates on the appointment of former Australian premier John Howard as ICC president – and wonders how he will negotiate the complex diplomatic maze ahead.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board has named England’s provisional 30-man squad for the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, starting in the Caribbean from April 30 – and the most significant omission is Alastair Cook.
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“Collingwood entered the fray with a grim countenance, and proceeded to turn an increasingly enthralling contest into a comfortable chase” – Cow Corner licks its pen for another coruscating match report after Paul Collingwood England beat Bangladesh in the first ODI.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
“Jeffrey Archer… continues to nurture the boyish daydream of opening the batting for England at Lord’s. Oddly enough, watching the former Tory peer playing in a Test match also happens to be a recurring reverie of my own. Although in my version he is not elegantly compiling a century before lunch but having bouncers ping off his noggin with a sound like somebody striking a ripe peach with a meat mallet” – Harry Pearson considers the nature of fantasy sport, especially for those over 40.
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