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Video of Lehmann’s final one-day innings
By Will 3 years ago, at the end of November, 4 Comments »
Nice line on the recently retired Darren Lehmann:
Lehmann was never less than a sublime batsman. He was not so much unorthodox as post-orthodox. Batsmen talk of using the length of the crease, but few can have used its width as he did. There he was the other night in Adelaide, taking a stance two feet outside leg stump to face Brad Hogg and utterly confounding him. Next week, Hogg will be playing for Australia, Lehmann for no one.
And you can see Lehmann’s brilliant 126* below, including the hammering he gave Hogg (who was clueless). What a knock. 126 not out in your final one-dayer – and just check out the final shot to secure South Australia’s win.
Click here if you can’t see the video above.
4 Comments »South Australia v England, Adelaide
By Will 4 years ago, mid-November, 8 Comments »
It’s the final warm-up match to Brisbane. England are Trescothickless and could do with a good run-out here to stretch their legs for next week. They ought to get it with Darren Lehmann, Shaun Tait, Dan Cullen and Mark Cosgrove among them. Their resolve will be seriously tested.
Chat away.
8 Comments »Who ate all the pies?
By Scott 4 years ago, at the end of January, No Comments; be the first!
Darren Lehmann has nominated fellow fattie Mark Cosgrove to be Australia’s new batting sensation who can win the 2007 World Cup for Australia. Cosgrove was so fat at the start of the season that the South Australian selectors told him to put down that pie and lose some weight before they’d consider him. To the lad’s credit, he’s shrunk enough to get back into the side, and has had a merry old time of it in both forms of the game. He’s still a figure of substance though, and I can’t imagine the selectors liking his fielding atheleticism too much.
While I don’t think Cosgrove will get in for 2007 World Cup, he may well feature in the baggy green afterwards, because he’s quality. And speaking as a fellow-fattie, I think it’s a myth that only skinny weedy guys can be good fielders. With Merv Hughes on the selection panel, I’d like to think that Cosgrove has a chance, but after muching on it, you have to admit he’s a real outsider.
No Comments »Sun setting at Adelaide
By Will 4 years ago, mid-January, No Comments; be the first!
How good is this shot?
Flipping brilliant I think you’ll agree. From a recent South Australia v Tasmania cup game at the Adelaide Oval
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