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  • "We didn't know much about Pattinson. We didn't have any footage on him. Whatever team the English put out we were just going to try and prepare with whatever information we could get. Which wasn't a lot."
    Hashim Amla admits Darren Pattinson's call-up caught South Africa by surprise. Like everyone else

    Jul 19, 2008

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    Got a minute or ten?

    By Will last year, mid-July, 1 Comment »

    I had the good fortune of (finally) meeting Patrick Kidd for lunch today and, among other things, he told us about his interview with Rahul Dravid yesterday (certainly worth reading). He managed 800 words - a fine feat considering he was afforded just two minutes with the India captain. Two. He and another journalist were given five “precious” minutes with him which never ceases to annoy me. With such a short time frame, you often end up firing questions at them, nodding furiously but not listening sufficiently, and it becomes a barrage for the interviewee. Of course, neither party - least of all those being interviewed - have hours and hours spare. But all we’re asking for is 10 minutes. That’s a fair amount of time in which to conduct a decent interview and get to know the human behind the sound-bites.

    In Ireland, I was lucky to speak to a number of the players and the restrictions were far less. Rare and priceless. I wonder if and when that’ll ever happen? Anyway - go and read Patrick’s piece and of course his blog, Line and Length, immediately.

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    Answering your emails

    By Will 3 years ago, at the end of September, No Comments; be the first!

    Just a note of thanks for all the emails. Not had time to reply to all of you, but many thanks for them nonetheless. The Ashes was a lot of fun, and I really didn’t do a thing to add to it…but if you enjoyed the blog, that’s great, so ta for that.

    Now, to answer some of the more quirky questions. Yes I do follow other cricket, not just the Ashes and not just England. I haven’t yet been to India or Pakistan, but would love to one day. Yes, I am biased towards England - I support them. Yes I’ll be writing about England versus Pakistan (I’ll be covering it at work so will post my thoughts on it in the afternoons).

    No, I can’t introduce you to Kevin Pietersen. Or anyone, for that matter!

    And, finally - I don’t have any videos of Shahid Afridi, nor do I particularly want any. A fine bat, and an exciting player, but I don’t know him, nor do I have his phone number or address.

    And that, chaps, is one way to deal with a mass of emails. Hope that helps some of you!

    Shall try to write something more meaningful on Saturday - possibly even directly about cricket.

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