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It's a hundred years since Bart King, America's greatest cricketer of all time, graced the playing fields of both his own country and of England as a world-class all-rounder. It was Sunday, August 6, 1905, that five thousand people watched a New York XI lose by fifty runs to the MCC in a two-day game at the Staten Island Cricket Club.
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After the exhiliration of Edgbaston, Test cricket came crashing back to earth with a thud at the Harare Sports Club yesterday. What can you say about a team that allows Daniel Vettori to score a Test match hundred in 82 balls?
Monday - Day Two of the First Test - began with Zimbabwe about to commence their first innings. Eighty overs later, they had lost by an innings and 294 runs. And this after New Zealand scored 452 for 9 on Sunday, including said Vettori's 127 from 98 deliveries.
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Sensational but not entirely unexpected news from the ICC (that's International Cricket Council, not the International Criminal Court). The USA has been kicked out of the 2005 Inter-continental Cup, with the Cayman Islands taking their place in the Americas group.
This just in:
ICC WITHDRAWS USACA ICC INTERCONTINENTAL CUP INVITATION, CAYMAN ISLANDS OFFERED PLACE IN GLOBAL TOURNAMENT
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Matthew Hayden’s single ball innings was everything it had promised to be...
- Nick Whittock, Ashes, 6.8.05
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I firmly believe that there is nothing more exhilirating in sport than a good game of Test cricket. This game at Edgbaston was one of the best. England by two runs.
I put this alongside the two Tests I consider the two best that I have seen in the past: the 1977 Centenary Test at the MCG, and the 1993 Test at the Adelaide Oval when the West Indies beat Australia by one run.
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Saturday at the Edgbaston Test. Everyone dresses up in their best gear. There's those blokes dressed up as bright purple whoopie cushions. The Aussie fans wearing their authentic replica 1980-81 ODI gear - you know, the gorgeous canary yellow body-hugging kit with the tasteful lime green panels under the armpits. And it was good to see the Beatles re-forming to see if they could still fit into their Sgt Peppers uniforms. (No, don't ask me how John and George got tickets to the game.)
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The Primary Club is a charitable organisation that raises money to provide facilities for visually impaired people. To be eligible to play for the Primary Club you should have been dismissed at least once in your life for a golden duck, ie, out first ball.
Matty Hayden: the URL to sign up is http://www.primaryclub.org/shop/join.php.
Submitted by rickeyre on
You could tell it wasn't going to be Australia's day once Glenn McGrath trod on a cricket ball while playing touch footy. No, he wasn't playing touch footy with the cricket ball.
The Aussie lads were playing some warm-up touch footy (rugby league) on the Edgbaston outfield before the start of play in the Second Test, as you do. Brad Haddin passed the football to McGrath. McGrath heads for the tryline, and... who didn't put that Kookaburra away??
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You can take your Border-Gavaskar, Compton-Miller, Chappell-Hadlee, even your Peden-Archdale... I am now unveiling, belatedly but otherwise as promised, the name of my award for the Ashes Player of the Tournament.
Presenting: the Midwinter-Midwinter. Who needs to invoke the names of two legends when you can honour one person twice?
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Exhibit A:
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
- Patrick Henry, Richmond (Virginia), 23 March 1775
Exhibit B: