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  • "Fitness is a relative term. I mean to say that it does not necessarily mean that one who runs hard and lifts weights is fit. Cricketing fitness is different. So if you can perform, it means you are fit."
    Sourav Ganguly provides his unique take on what constitutes fitness

    Jul 19, 2008

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    Clever!

    By Scott 2 years ago, at the end of January, 1 Comment »

    First over of the Third Test, and Irfan Pathan takes a hat-trick. Good stuff, I like that guy, and good to see the poor bowlers get some joy in this series. I hope that no innings goes over 200.

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    C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre

    By Scott 2 years ago, mid-January, 11 Comments »

    That was a French General reacting to the Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854. It is also my reaction to the First Test, where India, as I write, are 0 for 403, and they’ve just gone off for bad light. Sehwag is 247, and Dravid is 128. This is in response to Pakistan’s 679 for 7 declared, a total that could have been far larger had Pakistan put their minds to it.

    So by my creaky mathematics, we’ve had 1,083 runs and 7 wickets.

    Great. But to me, this is almost as much nonsense as that Twenty-20 rubbish. Sorry to be an incurable snob, but to me, cricket is a contest between bat and ball, not a batathon. If there is any justice in this world the curator should be impaled with a pristine cricket stump, and I am sure Shoaib, Danish Kaneria, and indeed Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan would endorse my sentiments.

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