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Monthly Archives: February 2011
How Can a One-Day Game Have a Tie?
One of the big confusions between baseball and cricket is the lingo. In baseball a pitch is the throwing of a ball; in cricket it’s the thing a ball bounces on before it arrives where the batsman’s standing. In baseball, … Continue reading
The Runner
Chaos is not a term often associated with cricket. But, sometimes, there’s no other word to describe what happens when a runner is employed. The runner is used when one of the batsmen on the field is injured, and can … Continue reading
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Le Sacre du Printemps
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? Superstitious? Doesn’t your team really do better when you watch TV from … Continue reading
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Hope Springs Anew…We Hope
This has been one of those old-fashioned New York City winters, the bleeding kind that Paul Simon wrote about in “The Boxer,” which seem to have departed with the 1970s. Those were winters before el Niño and la Niña, when … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Yankees
Tagged Alex Rodriguez, Cecil "Big Daddy" Fielder, David Cone, Derek Jeter, Edgar Martinez, George Steinbrenner, Jay Buhner, Jimmy Key, Ken Griffey, Luis Sojo, New York Yankees, Randy Johnson, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Tim Raines, Tino Martinez, Tony Fernandez, Wade Boggs
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Shut me up, fellas.
Every cricket World Cup, a number of Associate Member (a.k.a. second tier) cricket teams (a.k.a. “minnows”) get to swim with the big fish. This time around, Canada, The Netherlands, Kenya, and Ireland will be duking it out with Australia, India, … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, One-Day Cricket
Tagged Bangladesh, England, Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, The Netherlands, West Indies, World Cup 2011
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What Is a Powerplay?
In the last decade or so, the one-day, 50-over form of the game of cricket has been under assault. Too many longueurs, complain critics and administrators, who look at the thirty overs between the first and the last ten and … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, One-Day Cricket
Tagged England, The Netherlands, World Cup 2011, Zimbabwe
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The Games Have Begun!
So, the 2011 cricket World Cup is underway, and already Australia and India have thrashed their oppositions, and are looking set fair to do very well. Competition minnows, Kenya and Canada, were sadly thrashed, and look out of their depth. … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, One-Day Cricket
Tagged Australia, Canada, England, Kenya, The Netherlands, World Cup 2011
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The World One-Day International Cricket Cup Tournament Has Begun
Every four years, the cricket world’s top teams gather to compete in the 50-over form of the game of cricket. Be sure to check in over these next seven weeks as we cover the games, the stories, and try to … Continue reading
