August 2005

Day two: Giles spins ball shock

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If Shane Warne is the Don Juan of world cricket, is Ashley Giles the Juan Carlos?

While the morning belonged to the Sheikh of Tweak, the Sultan of Spin, the afternoon belonged to the King of Spain, Prince Wheelie bin Giles. (Dammit, I should be writing for WWE.) The hyper-testosteroned English media are calling His Ashliness' dismissal of Damien Martyn "the ball of the century". In Ashley Giles' case, it probably will be his best ball of the century (and of the last one).

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Day one: It was Trescothick it was 2

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Poor old Marcus likes being on the receiving end of a milestone, doesn't he? First he was Glenn McGrath's 500th Test wicket, now he is Shane Warne's 600th - and with the very same dismissal, Adam Gilchrist's 300th as wicketkeeper.

Aye, six hundred - when I were a lad you only needed 300 wickets for a world record. I can recall vivdly, back in February 1976, Ian Redpath getting out to Lance Gibbs at the MCG and then walking up the pitch to shake the Guyanese offie's hand for being his 308th Test victim, taking him one clear of Frederick Seward Trueman.

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Old enough to bowl, too young to talk

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Cathryn Fitzpatrick had already held her 21st birthday party when Holly Colvin was born. Not turning sixteen till September 7, Colvin became the youngest Test cricketer for the English women on Tuesday. She paid dividends for England by taking three wickets on the opening day of the Hove Test against Australia - Kate Blackwell, Julia Price and Fitzpatrick - but at day's end was not allowed to talk to the media.

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The Old Grey Trafford Test

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They don't make cricket balls like they used to. Only seven days after Glenn McGrath trod on one in pre-match training at Edgbaston, he is back in action for Australia in the Third Test at Old Trafford. Brett Lee has also had a miracle cure, so there's no room for (a) Mike Kasprowicz (b) Shaun Tait (c) Stuart Clark (d) Stuart MacGill (e) all of the above.

Michael Vaughan won the toss and elected to bat. Half an hour into the first session, England are 19 without loss. The burning question of the day is: who will be Warnie's Number 600?

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Cricket tournament to U.S. team: Bug off

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The US papers are starting to catch wind of their nation's latest cricketing debacle. Even if the Baltimore Sun chooses to package it all under a Jiminy pun.

The Sun's sports columnist, Mr and Mrs Side's little boy named The Flip, is more taken by the fact that, bearing in mind that cricket games can take a long time, "the man in charge of the sport is named Speed". If only The Flip realised that the man running (ruining?) the sport in the States is a man named Dainty.

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