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The cricket catch-up thanks to Twitter, Part One

Submitted by rickeyre on January 30, 2010 - 10:55am

For no obvious reason I haven't done a blog entry about cricket since my end-of-year piece on December 30 (apart from a item spruiking my book "Today In Cricket" and why haven't you bought it yet?). Worse still, my daily Test match entries conked out after the opening day of the Australia v Pakistan First Test.

WACA Test wrap: 2-0, but nothing to jump up and down about.

Submitted by rickeyre on December 23, 2009 - 7:08am

The Frank Worrell Trophy is settled for 2009. Australia 2, West Indies 0, with one draw. Sounds decisive on the surface of it, but the truth is that, for the two latter Tests at least, the Windies surpassed expectations. Australia played like a team hovering between third and fourth-best in the world.

WACA Day One: Failing in the last furlong

Submitted by rickeyre on December 18, 2009 - 11:48pm

Michael Clarke, co-star with Tiger Woods in many an Aussie version of the Gillette ads, made less runs than Woods has paramours, but with the West Indian eleven lacking Chanderpaul and Barath, it is going to be hard to see them matching the eventual Australian score.

Gabba Day One: The rights of spring

Submitted by rickeyre on November 27, 2009 - 12:48am

Amid the dog's breakfast that is the international cricket schedule these days, I still get a thrill at the arrival of the Australian Test cricket season, heralded every year since 1974 by the opening day of the Test match at Woolloongabba, Queensland. It's an even greater thrill to see Australia facing the West Indies - or at least it used to be.

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