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Notes from the pavilion for October 22nd
By Will last year, at the end of October, No Comments; be the first!
Links of note from the past 24 hours:
- Gatting’s MCC beat Cyprus…just - Mike’s actually getting <i>rounder</i>
- ‘We will have to play well to come out on top’ - So <i>that’s</i> how you win, John
- Why cricket? - New Zealand cricket | NZHistory - Some interesting notes on the history of New Zealand cricket, while doing a “brief history” of England and NZ for Cricinfo. ‘I tell the boys in summertime to play at cricket and play well, that those who are the best cricketers most likely will be the bes
Campaign for Rotund Cricketers - CAMRUC
By Will last year, at the end of August, 16 Comments »
Hello from Dubai airport - quite possibly the arse-end of the world - where many overfed businessmen have been spotted. Which leads me onto Ramesh Powar, India’s round offspinner; how good it was to see him hustle up to the wicket in the second one-dayer at Bristol. And it’s equally pleasing to read Mike Atherton has also made note of Powar’s waistline.
“When Chawla was removed from the attack 15 overs later - 15 overs bowled in tandem with the magnificently rotund off-spinner Romesh Powar - England were 214 for five and defeat was inevitable.”
So let’s start a campaign for the rotund cricketer to make his sizeable presence known. And list your favourite fatties below. I’ll start with the predictable, Mike Gatting - but I also have tremendous respect for WG Grace who, towards the end of his career, appeared to be pregnant with triplets.
Yours?
16 Comments »Australia v England, Twenty20 Legends
By Will 2 years ago, mid-December, 4 Comments »
England beat Australia tonight in the Legends Twenty20 encounter at the WACA. Geoffrey Dean has posted a report to Patrick Kidd’s Line and Length:
4 Comments »The only disappointment for Gatting was that he made a second-ball duck, nicking an outswinger in the first over from who else but Dennis Lillee. Graham Thorpe then joined Robin Smith, however, to put on a match-winning 119 in 13 overs for the second wicket. Smith rolled back the years with a hard-hit 32-ball fifty while Thorpe, hitting the ball into gaps with all his old skill, finished with 72 off 49 deliveries. Nineteen were wanted off the last two overs, but then Ian Healy came on and Adam Hollioake settled the issue with three massive sixes.
