England women's all-rounder Katherine Brunt, as quoted by Sam Wheeler in Saturday's Yorkshire Post:
"I lost 22 stone in six months," she said. "I found I could bowl a lot quicker and my action was quicker."
Well, yes, I'm sure you would...
Thanks to everyone who has given feedback about The Net Sessions, which I think I can now safely say is the first podcast series devoted exclusively to cricket. I especially thank those people who have given suggestions about tweaking the sound quality.
December 24, 1984: Australia loses a women's Test to England.
September 19, 1988: Australia follows on in a men's Test match against Pakistan.
Board's itinerary goof up leaves team stranded in Bulawayo
Ashish Shukla/Press Trust of India, 27.8.05
The BCCI's revenge perhaps for player tardiness in Mumbai and Harare?
Something I thought I would never see, well not in this decade anyway, appears to be unfolding at New Road, Worcester, today.
It's lunch on Day Three of the Second Women's Test between England and Australia. The visitors made 131 in their first innings. England, after being 227 for 9 at the close of the second day, advanced to 289 all out. Australia faced sixteen overs before lunch. They are currently 13 for 3.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg is on the pork barrel trail in the lead-up to the November 8 city elections.
Bloomberg kicked off a busy meet-the-people Saturday with a photo op at St Alban's Park, Queens, which he announced would receive $1.5 million of city funding for the building of a dedicated cricket ground. It will only be the second specialist cricket venue in contemporary New York.
Thursday's Christian Science Monitor has a rather confused article by Mark Rice-Oxley titled Cricket makes a comeback in Britain.
Rice-Oxley talks about the increased interest in Test cricket as a result of the excitement of the Second and Third Tests between England and Australia, yet the sub-editors appear to be more interested in playing up the Twenty20 elements of the article. Possibly because they've noticed the word "baseball" used in close proximity to Twenty20 quite frequently.
Geraint Jones, Blessing Mahwire and Tapash Baisya are among the shock omissions from the thirteen-man ICC World XI chosen to play Australia in a six-day exhibition game at the Sydney Cricket Ground in October.
The prospect of a new-ball pairing of Shabbir Ahmed and Jermaine Lawson will be denied to the five or six thousand spectators expected to pack the SCG for the match, a fundraiser to support the noble cause of the winning team's wallets.
ODIs do not need fixing - Smith
(News 24 via UCBSA website, 15.8.05)
Another reason why Graeme Smith will never be the captain Hansie Cronje was...
Deja vu all over again? Maybe. But England's two-run victory over Australia in the women's one-day international at Stratford-upon-Avon on Sunday was a quite historic occasion.
