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    Harmison the iPod

    By Will last year, at the start of December Leave a comment on this post

    Great line from KingCricket on Steve Harmison:

    We see and agree with the reasons for omitting Steve Harmison, but it does underline why we like him. You can’t pick a guy whose bowling line is set to ’shuffle’, but he’s resolutely not an English seam bowler. He’s 12 feet tall and he bowls quickly. It’s not that he’s capable of bowling quickly, it’s that he just does it. It’s his natural speed. In Sri Lankan conditions the ‘effort ball’ is pretty much an impossibility. Effortless speed is the only option.

    Talking of nothing at all, I was pondering some songs which might accompany cricketers to and from the crease (Twenty20 style) the other day. I didn’t very far - The Police with So Lonely for the trudge back to the pavilion was an early idea though. What might England’s team have on their iPods, I wonder?

    Update: AC/DC’s Shake Your Foundation for Adam Gilchrist. And possibly the theme tune to The Archers for Kevin Pietersen, in a “I’m more English than thou” sort of statement.

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    6 Responses to “Harmison the iPod”

  • Rod wrote:
    December 6th, 2007 at 1.39 pm

    Love it - here are a few random ones.
    Badly Drawn Boy - Coming into Land. A tribute to how many months England spend away from home.
    Whitesnake - Here I go again. Firstly the wildlife and secondly the fact that England are unlikely to bat once in a Test in Sri Lanka.
    When I’m 64 - The Beatles. A tribute to Ian Bell and how he needs to stop getting out before a ton.
    Aretha Franklin - Respect. All XI have this one before facing Murali it seems. Or Ian Brown’s F.E.A.R.
    The Jam - That’s entertainment. There could be some fireworks to come in the next two Tests.

  • Will wrote:
    December 6th, 2007 at 2.02 pm

    When I’m 64! Excellent.

  • Rob Cornelius wrote:
    December 6th, 2007 at 6.22 pm

    Surely the old Steelers Wheel classic “Stuck in the middle with you”. The first lines are “clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you”.

  • Marcus wrote:
    December 6th, 2007 at 10.43 pm

    I wonder if Hoggard remembered “Ring of Fire?”

  • Reverse Swing wrote:
    December 9th, 2007 at 3.40 pm

    Harmy - ‘Fog on the Tyne’ - just to tip him over the edge homesickness-wise…

    Pietersen - ‘Fame’ - because ultimately that’s all he’s really after.

    Broad - ‘Amost Grown’ - because he almost is, or ‘Son of My Father’ because that’s how he’s going to be remembered until he gets over 100 wickets.

    Strauss - ‘Eton Rifles’. Middlesex, Public School, posh accent…

  • Marcus wrote:
    December 10th, 2007 at 1.14 am

    “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence- “Don’t Go Out Tonight…”

    And one for Shane Warne- “I Like Big Butts And I Cannot Tell A Lie.”

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