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By Will 1 month ago, 3 Comments »
Quality video. Click here if you can’t see it below.
3 Comments »Blu Tack England
By Will 1 month ago, 12 Comments »
I urge you with all my might to watch this video by LeftArmChinaman. It is a thing of majestic beauty and brilliance.
If you can’t see it above, head to his blog.
12 Comments »Highlights of Sidebottom’s 7 for 47
By Will 2 months ago, No Comments; be the first!
Some highlights of Ryan Sidebottom’s 7 for 47.
No Comments »England Under-19s’ crossbar challenge
By Will 2 months ago, 1 Comment »
You’ll have to be really bored to watch this, but as I’m wide awake when I should be asleep in prep for tonight’s Test, it’s been the perfect tonic. Hilarious nicknames that they’ve all got, and it’s good to see the complete lack of political correctness among the squad. It was uploaded by James “The sheep” Harris who, unless you’re completely ignorant, hails from Glamorgan…
Click here or here if you can’t see it above.
1 Comment »Cricket’s wealth in Australia
By Will 3 months ago, 3 Comments »
We talk and moan about India’s vast financial grip over the game, but however much it narks us, it is of little surprise: with a growing economy and a colossal population, the majority of whom love the game, India have the two crucial ingredients to making a lot of money out of an entertainment sport. The same goes for football in the UK: it’s watched and loved by millions, and advertisers know they’ll get decent exposure and are willing to pay for it.
The same can’t be said for cricket in the UK. After the Ashes, in particular the following summer, advertisers were swarming like bees over all things cricket. Even this humble blog was targeted. But the interest, like England’s Test form, has slipped away with depressing haste and we’re back to where we were pre the 2005 Ashes.
The same can’t be said for cricket in Australia either, and they come up with some brilliant advertising campaigns. I’m not a sales man and nor will I ever be, but I do find it fascinating how each country uses advertising to exploit the interest of a game to attract new visitors. Inevitably Australia do it with humour, and do it pretty well. Thanks to Duncans.tv here is Mike Hussey in an advert for the CB Series:
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3 Comments »Highlights of the Stanford 20/20
By Will 3 months ago, 1 Comment »
Someone’s uploading the highlights of the Stanford 20/20 to Youtube. Thanks to Ryan.
1 Comment »Twenty20 sledging match
By Will 3 months ago, 1 Comment »
“Each team has only 20 seconds to insult the opposition”. Witty animation from Nicholson at The Australian.
England’s beauty tips
By Will 3 months ago, 2 Comments »
What key attributes do England need in order to succeed in New Zealand? Moisturiser and paper pants. The full horror show can be watched at The Times.
2 Comments »Post your Adam Gilchrist videos
By Will 4 months ago, No Comments; be the first!
Go forth and find videos. Post your favourites from Youtube and co and leave them in the comments. Here’s a belter: his 162 against New Zealand in 2005.
No Comments »Ishant Sharma to Ricky Ponting (video)
By Will 4 months ago, 5 Comments »
I managed to catch some of the highlights today of India’s rather epic win over Australia, and what an effort from Ishant Sharma. His long spell to Ricky Ponting, which lasted about an hour, was skilful fast bowling and must have been mesmeric to watch live. It reminded me of Andrew Flintoff’s over to Ponting at Edgbaston in 2005, but this was a sustained examination of the batsman’s technique - not just six crackerjack deliveries. Some brief highlights of it, and the rest of the fourth day’s play from Perth, are below:
If you can’t see them, click here or here.
5 Comments »Video of Harbhajan and Symonds sledging
By Will 4 months ago, 41 Comments »
Well why not? Here are the winning pair in their now infamous day three tussle. The best line is from Ian Chappell right at the end, when he says “I’m not sure Matthew Hayden would be my choice as UN peace-keeper”. Hayden was an intermediary, stepping in to break things up.
Click here if you can’t see the video above.
41 Comments »Video highlights of VVS Laxman’s hundred against Australia
By Will 4 months ago, 3 Comments »
This is only a short glimpse - one over, in fact - but he takes 18 off Mitchell Johnson and it’s well worth watching. Do post a link to the full highlights if you see them lurking on tinterweb.
Match scorecard here.
3 Comments »Pietersen c Sangakkara b Vaas 1
By Will last year, mid-December, 6 Comments »
Oh how simple it sounds.
Pietersen c Sangakkara b Vaas 1
Alas, it is anything but - and the media (yes, I know I’m part of it, but I can still comment) might be making a meal of it in the coming 24 hours. For those of you who didn’t see it, this is what happened:
| 60.3 | Vaas to Pietersen, OUT, and the plan has worked, it’s a brilliant piece of work at slip, but wait, there’s controversy. Pietersen went for a drive at a wide ball, nicked to the third slip, Silva, who dived to his left and grabbed the catch low to the turf, it bobbles up and Sangakkara comes from first slip to take the rebound. Pietersen waits as the umpires consult, Harper raises his finger, but TV replays show the ball appears to have brushed the ground before the initial take by Silva. Pietersen waits inside the boundary, as he did at Lord’s earlier this year against India, but there’s no overturning this decision and he’s off |
Clarification from Andrew Miller:
The difference between the two incidents is that at Lord’s there wasn’t an original agreement between the umpires on Dhoni’s catch, it was given immediately by Simon Taufel. However, in Colombo the umpires conferred before deciding Pietersen was out and the laws state that the third official can only be used if the view of the on-field umpires is obstructed.
This is clearly bullshit and the law needs amending immediately. Like many, I still hanker after the good old days when video replays were rare and pretty inconclusive, but cricket must move with the times and we can’t have this middle-ground where technology is used sparingly. It’s making the sport look pretty damn stupid.
Your thoughts? Vote on the right-hand-side of the site, too.
Should the third umpire be consulted more often?
- Yes, for all decisions in which the on-field officials are unsure (49%, 25 Votes)
- Yes, but not for all decisions (22%, 11 Votes)
- Replace the umpires with robots and Noel Edmonds (20%, 10 Votes)
- No, leave it as it is (10%, 5 Votes)
Total Voters: 51
Loading …Video of Shane Warne’s TV adverts
By Will last year, at the start of December, No Comments; be the first!
Thanks to Allie for writing in with the link. (see photos, too)
No Comments »Matthew Hoggard’s video diary from Sri Lanka
By Will last year, at the start of December, 3 Comments »
Matthew Hoggard is video-blogging his tour of Sri Lanka. Have a look below, or click here.
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Matthew Hoggard, England all-rounder, animal lover and technical wizard gives
us a warts-and-all look behind the scenes as the tour of Sri Lanka gets
underway.
In the first episode, he struggles to cope with jetlag, enjoys the view of a
building site outside his bedroom, turns the tables on a Sky Sports reporter
and gets up close and personal with a Male Body Toucher.
