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Explaining Cricket Stats: Part Two
As we noted in Explaining Cricket Stats: Part One, you can easily get lost in the thicket of statistics in either sport. (“You is feeling like you was lost in the bush, boy?” as James Joyce tries to calm his … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India
Tagged Brad Haddin, Literature, Shane Watson, World Cup
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Explaining Cricket Stats: Part One
As we note in Right Off the Bat, cricket buffs and baseball fans share a love of statistics, and both games are replete in a range of stats. As we also note in the book, the fans of either sport … Continue reading
Hemispheric Pressure
While our baseball friends in the U.S. huddle around their stoves and await the first sprigs of spring training to appear in February, cricket lovers are enjoying a sun-drenched, beer-fueled banquet of competition in the southern hemisphere. After an inconclusive … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Test Cricket
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Fire in Babylon
I (Martin) finally got to see Fire in Babylon, the 2010 documentary on the evolution and triumph of the great West Indies sides that dominated world cricket from 1980 to 1995. The documentary affirms what Evander and I wrote about … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, West Indies
Tagged Andy Roberts, Bob Marley, Colin Croft, Dennis Lillee, Jeff Thomson, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall, Michael Clarke, Wayne Daniel
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New Zealand Beat Australia for the First Time in Twenty Years
In a major upset and in a finish that was the very definition of nail-biting, the underdog New Zealand cricket team has beaten the mighty Australians in a Test match for the first time in twenty years. Doug Bracewell, the … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, New Zealand, Test Cricket
Tagged Brendon Bracewell, David Warner, Nathan Lyon, Ross Taylor
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Watching “Empire of Cricket”
The 2009 BBC production Empire of Cricket is highly (and I, Evander, mean highly) recommended to all baseball fans in the throes of this fallow, no-baseball, hot-stove league/Winter Meetings period. The series is comprised of one-hour episodes devoted to the … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Baseball, Cricket, England, India, Pakistan
Tagged Bodyline, Douglas R. Jardine, Farokh Engineer, Jack Hobbs, Kapil Dev, Pajama Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar, T20, W. G. Grace, Willie Mays
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My Funny Valentine
Bobby Valentine (courtesy of Yahoo sports) can’t wait for the 2012 season. Check out these pearls before reporters from the Winter Meetings: “The new Red Sox manager loves nothing more than folks hanging on his every word, and he basked … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Baseball, Cricket, England, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Bobby Valentine, Boston Red Sox, Joe Girardi, Literature, New York Yankees
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The Little Master Almost Makes It: West Indies v. India—Part I
This time he reached 94 before he edged a lifting delivery to second slip and was compelled to walk in near total silence back to the pavilion. For the length of his innings, it seemed as though, finally, Sachin Tendulkar, … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Baseball, Cricket, India, Test Cricket
Tagged Sachin Tendulkar, Steve Waugh
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The Series that Never Was
After losing an astonishing game in Cape Town, the Australian cricket team pulled off an improbable victory in Johannesburg in another closely fought Test match with South Africa, to tie the series 1-1, with . . . wait, it’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, South Africa, Test Cricket
Tagged Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Vernon Philander
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What the Hell Just Happened in Cape Town?
Just when you think the world of cricket couldn’t get any weirder or upside down, a Test match comes along that defies all expectations. Such an event occurred yesterday. The Australian cricket team is visiting South Africa for two Test … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, South Africa, Test Cricket
Tagged Graeme Smith, Hashim Amla, Literature, Michael Clarke
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