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November 02, 2007
Warne-Murali trophy? Naah!
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of test cricket between Australia and Sri Lanka (lest we forget, they've played the grand total of eight series in this period), there is a proposal by Sri Lanka's cricket board to name a trophy after the two spinning legends.
I have a few [better, imho!] suggestions. If they wanted to use legendary spinners, then why not name it the McIntyre-Dharmasena trophy? If they wanted to celebrate batting under-achievers in tests, why not name it the Law (avg. infinity)-Nawaz (Test batting avg. of 99) trophy? If they had to celebrate pleasing batting, then they could have named it the Waugh (Mark, not Steve! Are you serious?!) - De Silva trophy? They could also name it the 'Audi' trophy in honour of Mark Waugh's four ducks in a row against Sri Lanka (facing a total of 12 balls) and pocket a nice sponsorship from Volkswagen in the bargain! To honour two bowlers with dubious actions, may I suggest the Mura-Lee trophy?
Labels: aravinda de silva, australia, humour, mark waugh, murali, sri lanka, warne
Thus spake Jagadish @ 6:44 pm | Sledge/Read 2 sledge(s)
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January 18, 2007
David Lloyd: "All that was meant to be inside the box was now outside it"
Here's a hilarious video where David Lloyd describes what it felt like to be hit in the 'box' by Jeff Thomson in the 1974/75 Ashes test at Perth.
Labels: ashes, david lloyd, humour, jeff thomson
Thus spake Jagadish @ 1:11 am | Sledge/Read 0 sledge(s)
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January 17, 2007
Cricketing suicide
I normally avoid using morbid cricketing metaphors, such as "Finger of death", "That was a suicidal shot/run", etc.
But I can't resist posting about these two videos connecting cricket(s) and suicides!
Labels: humour, suicide, video
Thus spake Jagadish @ 11:39 pm | Sledge/Read 0 sledge(s)
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January 03, 2007
Lovely Brit humour
First, Matthew Hoggard, 1 year and 1 day younger than me in his column for 'The Times':
Tomorrow is my 30th birthday. It is not going to be quite as happy an occasion as I would have hoped, given the horrible 4-0 scoreline in the Ashes series, but it should be an enjoyable occasion nonetheless. The ECB has booked a restaurant for all of us down by the harbour in Sydney, where we’ll have a very nice meal and then enjoy the New Year fireworks on the Harbour Bridge. It was good of the Sydney authorities to arrange a spectacular firework display in honour of my birthday.Second, Mike Gatting gets asked in the same newspaper about barracking from 'The Hill' at the Sydney Cricket Ground:
Did you ever get stick from the Hill?
The worst I got in Sydney was from one of my own team. At the Bicentenary Test in 1988, the Australia batsmen were complaining about Bill Athey’s shadow at short leg encroaching on the pitch and Graham Dilley told them: "That’s nothing to worry about. If we move Gatt in close, you’ll want to go off for bad light."
Labels: british, gatting, hoggard, humour
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