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Bradman and Hammond in Twenty20s
By Will 4 months ago, 17 Comments »
Nick Hoult has drawn up a list of his dream Twenty20 side at his enjoyable Telegraph blog:
1. Gordon Greenidge - Destructive and intimidating opener who would set the tone for the innings.
2. Saeed Anwar - Clever placement and electrifying stroke play would combine to make a brutal opening partnership with Greenidge.
3. Donald Bradman - Simply can’t ignore the greatest player of all time.
4. Viv Richards - Awesome power at the crease and useful bowling.
5. Wally Hammond - Wally loved to score quickly and his seam up would be invaluable. Also a great team man.
6. Garry Sobers - The game’s greatest allrounder. His stroke play would make him useful in the middle overs while his mixture of seam and spin could adapt to any situation.
7. Alec Stewart - Only Gilchrist has bettered him as a wicketkeeper/batsman.
8. Malcolm Marshall - Swing bowling and a decent leg-cutter would be perfect for Twenty20 cricket, as would his lower order hitting.
9. Wasim Akram - One of the great one-day bowlers whose lightening fast action concealed a clever change of pace.
10. Derek Underwood - Slow bowlers are key in Twenty20. Deadly’s intelligent left arm spin/medium pace would make him a captain’s dream.
11. Abdul Qadir - A gamble as he could be hit out of the attack, but his ability to produce the unpredictable could change a match.
Coach: Douglas Jardine - A man strong enough to handle a dressing room full of greats as well as get up the noses of the opposition and media.
I like the Anwar/Greenidge opening partnership - and just look at that bowling attack! Deadly Derek and Qadir to mop up after Marshall and Akram’s explosive opening couple of overs. I’d have Gilchrist instead of the Gaffer though, as much as it pains me…
17 Comments »Notes from the pavilion for October 20th
By Will last year, mid-October, No Comments; be the first!
Links of note from the past 24 hours:
- Trevin Bastiampillai - What a brilliant name
- Howard gives $6.5m for Bradman museum -
- Don and Pup bring cricket history to life - Clarke does the one-stump trick ala Bradman in an Australian TV commercial. Anyone got the video to share?
- Strain tells on Symonds - Victimisation by the media? This is out of control
Clarke imitating Bradman’s one-stump trick
By Will last year, mid-October, 8 Comments »
Not so much a trick as his actual training method when he was a youngster. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Clarke is featured in the latest TV commercial in Australia doing it. If anyone has a video, or link, do share.
8 Comments »FIRST it was The Don. Now it is Pup’s turn. Michael Clarke has emulated Donald Bradman’s golf-ball-and-stump practice technique in Cricket Australia’s new television advertising campaign promoting the 2007-08 season.
In the first television ad of the “Hungry for it” campaign, Clarke replicates the famous footage of The Don sharpening his skills by throwing a golf ball at the base of a water tank and batting it back and forth with a stump - just as he did as a child in Bowral. Cricket Australia said the campaign focused on the new breed of stars who were steering Australian cricket into the future.
Clarke, who still uses the technique to fine-tune his batting, said he was honoured to be featured in the advertisement.
The Don at night
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of October, No Comments; be the first!
A great photo of the statue of Donald Bradman in Adelaide. Incidentally, Patrick recently wrote about big Donny B in his Dimly fades the Don post:
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the numbers of people visiting the Bradman Museum in the Don’s birthplace of Bowral has slumped from 85,000 a year in the late 1990s to about 40,000 now. Reduced income and rising costs have led to the museum’s founding director, Richard Mulvaney, stepping down on Friday after 17 years in charge.
Sir Donald Bread Man
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of April, 3 Comments »
I know it’s April 1, but I promise this is true - if you look at my stats you can see what people type into Google when they arrive here. And someone from Pakistan typed Donald Bread Man! Ahhh, that’s made my week.
Easily amused from London town…
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