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Match report without words
By Rich Abbott 4 days ago, mid-afternoon, No Comments; be the first!
Lazy journalists rejoice! I think Andrew Miller might just be onto something here: today, on his Twitter page, he came up with the following ingenious way of describing the first Test in Chittagong:
6-0, 6-1, 5-7, 6-7, 6-2
Sounds about right. Could catch on I reckon…
No Comments »KP, Fred; talent, love, respect
By Will 2 months ago, No Comments; be the first!
Great piece from Andrew Miller on the differences in public perception of Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff.
No Comments »Yet Pietersen’s devotion to excellence is the very same attribute that alienates him from a fickle British public. From the days of Henry Cooper through to Eddie the Eagle and Frank Bruno, plucky and personable underdogs have always trumped sportsmen with genuine claims to greatness.
“It is peculiar how Pietersen is portrayed,” says a media colleague who has worked with him at close quarters. “He claims not to read the papers but that is definitely not the case. He takes criticism very personally and he is certainly not happy about it. I suspect the South African link will never allow him to be the Freddie-esque man of the people he so craves to be.”
According to Paul Burnham, founder of the Flintoff-worshipping Barmy Army, Pietersen’s persona is a direct challenge, for better or worse, to everything that British sports fans hold dear. “At the moment we are what we are as a culture. Personally I love it and wouldn’t want to change it, even though it isn’t what you want if you want to win all the time,” he says. “Freddie is old school and England’s fans can relate to that, whereas Pietersen is probably the most misunderstood cricketer there is. He’s got a really friendly personality but for some reason people don’t like his body language. He exudes confidence but it comes across as arrogance.”
“I think Fred comes across exactly the same as me,” says Gough. “He’s a bit of a joker who likes a drink and he plays his cricket in the right spirit. KP is slightly different. He’d take a wine bar over a pub any day, and that’s not a knock at him. He just enjoys that buzz and that edge about being a top-class sportsman. But because he wasn’t brought up in this country he still doesn’t quite understand how things work and how people look upon celebrities. It can be a difficult place if you make it a difficult place.”
Live: World Cup opening ceremony
By Will 3 years ago, mid-March, 6 Comments »
Andrew Miller is blogging the opening ceremony of the World Cup. So go read it now.
6 Comments »England awry but it’s ok
By Will 4 years ago, at the end of May, 2 Comments »
Andrew Miller provides his thoughts on tomorrow’s Test at Edgbaston in another Cricinfo Audio interview…here.
2 Comments »Tea in Pakistan
By Will 5 years ago, mid-November, 131 Comments »
Andrew Miller filed his diary earlier this morning, and sent along an accompanying photo – I’m still chuckling at it. It is true, though – you can’t beat a decent cup of tea (mind you, I can’t drink a cup of tea – I need a mug, and I’m quite particular about that aspect of it too.)
I mainly drink Tetley’s in the UK which, understandably, is bordering on the undrinkable. And there’s a Yorkshire brand which is meant to be suited to hard drinking water which is even worse. I can’t be arsed with tea leaves; I’m busy. Is it too much to ask for a tasty teabag?
I suppose the response to this will be obvious, but what is everyone’s favourite cricket-watching beverage? If I’m at the ground, it’s always either beer or water. I don’t bother with tea – at Lord’s, especially, they must defy physics somehow because the water served is as hot as the sun, and you risk permanent damage to vital organs and limbs. Quite aside from it tasting like rancid rain water. So it’s mainly beer or water for me. I do talk rubbish sometimes.
131 Comments »Pakistan tour diary
By Will 5 years ago, at the end of October, 9 Comments »
Much as Gideon Haigh’s Ashes diary was such a success in the summer for Cricinfo, Andrew Miller is doing the same and it promises to be equally as entertaining, or perhaps more so considering I know and work with him at Cricinfo Towers. It’ll be linked to on the homepage at Cricinfo, midway down under Regulars. His latest entry is here, which includes this gem:
On neither occasion, however, was there the slightest altercation between the concerned parties. It struck me that road rage is a curiously Anglo-Saxon phenomenon, borne of an over-reliance on rules and an unwillingness to accept responsibility for your actions. Here, you embark on a journey on a wing and a prayer, and keep your wits about you, lest others whip them away for you. As my airline pilot might have put it: “In’shallah”.
I’ve yet to go to Pakistan or India – I’m absolutely dying to go – so do keep your eye on his diary over the next few weeks for some..interesting insights among other stuff.
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