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  • "There used to be a bloke who gave himself out by walking when he'd hit the ball. The popularity of that within his team-mates may be shown by the fact that since his retirement, they no longer reply to any emails, phone calls or text messages."
    Adam Gilchrist gives a tongue-in-cheek response to his own philosophy of 'walking'

    Oct 12, 2008

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    Saturation point nears

    By Will 4 months ago, Comments

    I think my brain is overloaded, fast approaching a cricket-saturation point. You’ll know that West Indies didn’t manage to beat Australia yesterday, but that didn’t stop my brain thinking otherwise. As I dozed off to sleep, I was immediately back in Barbados watching Daren Powell and Fidel Edwards lead West Indies to an historic win. The tactic Powell used of shepherding Edwards from the strike - ridiculed by all and sundry yesterday - was the key to their chasing down 475, and then discussion took place as to whether Gayle should be Knighted or not.

    Then the familiar banging and crashing of my housemates woke me up at 5.30, and it dawned on me that I think about cricket far, far too much.

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    West Indies on top

    By Will last year, at the end of December, Comments

    I got a call from a West Indian mate this afternoon, Del, who was definitely full of post-Christmas cheer. It was he, in a roundabout sort of way, who told me about the day West Indies were having, and it’s really a bit special. 408 all out in their first innings (first time they’ve batted first and scored more than 400 since June 2006), followed by five quick South Africa wickets - three by Daren Powell who I met last summer. Impressive character - a very sharp wit and intelligent with it. Neither of those traits makes a good fast bowler - I think it’s Nasser Hussain who says all fast bowlers are stupid - but most successful quicks have had shrewd minds.

    Anyway, a cracking day and I still haven’t seen any of it. If anyone’s got a video, shout with the link.

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