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Pillock of the month
By Will 7 months ago, 4 Comments »
The Times’s Patrick Kidd has given up his attempt to be a polite cricket correspondent, and has announced a new monthly competition: The Line and Length Pillock of the Month.
It’s a damn fine idea, and god knows we have a host of losers to choose from. Pillock is one of those excellent words that can be used in all circles of life. You can call a bowler a pillock; a builder a pillock; your colleague a pillock. We’re all pillocks, at some time or another. Other favourite words include twassock, tosser, cretin, spanner, spoon and - Cricinfo London’s latest favourite - numpty.
My brother once ordered me to call one of his mates a cretin and I, aged about six, got a smack round the face for it. Ergo, my brother is not a cretin but a tosser. I am considerably taller than him now though, despite continued threats into my twenties that he will sever my ankles.
4 Comments »Someone had blundered!
By Scott 3 years ago, mid-December, 3 Comments »
Jagadish mused on Trescothick’s folly in inviting Pakistan to bat first and then watching them run up over 350, and went down memory lane for other invitations that did not work out too well. He invites readers to give their vote for the biggest blunder (I voted for Ganguly’s inviting Australia to bat in the 2003 World Cup final, which led to Australia scoring 359).
Great idea, that.. Jagadish limits his post to ODI’s so I’ll make the two obvious Test blunders. Both of them were Ashes disasters.
In 2002, Nasser Hussain decided to invite Australia to bat in the First Test at the Gabba. Hayden and Ponting racked up centuries and plundered the English to be 2 for 364 at stumps. What was the blunder? Hussain no doubt thought his bowlers would get more assistance from the pitch then he thought, and he wasn’t helped that Simon Jones broke down after seven overs.
In 2005, Ricky Ponting lost the services of Glenn McGrath, but still felt confident enough to invite England to bat at Edgbaston. Freed from the stern discipline of McGrath, the English were bowled out by stumps, but they had racked up 407 at more then five an over. England seized the initative in the Ashes series and never gave it back.
Any other blunders come to mind in Tests?
3 Comments »Crap tosser - Vaughan
By Will 3 years ago, at the start of January, No Comments; be the first!
[Via Guardian Unlimited]“To try to redress the balance, Vaughan could well start by winning the toss, something at which he is not very good after 15 losses in his 21 Tests, including both this series.”
That’s some really bad tossing there - what a record!
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