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Go, Go Pakistan
First of all, thank you to Evander for his sterling work in keeping up with the dizzying merry-go-round that is the 2011 Cricket World Cup. We’re now in the knockout, quarter-final stages. The usual eight suspects went through, and now … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, One-Day Cricket, Pakistan
Tagged Kamran Akmal, Shahid Afridi, World Cup
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Erin Go Bragh
It’s the second full day of spring and it snowed in the Bronx yesterday, huge flakes. The good news is it didn’t snow down here at World Cricket Central in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, which is obviously south of the snow … Continue reading
India Defeats West Indies
India beat West Indies decisively. Next up is Australia.
Ready for Our Closeup, the World Cup, Spring, and Right Off the Bat Proof Has Arrived!
While co-writer Martin is basking in the sun at the vernal equinox, in Parts Unknown, I have finished my work on proof copy of Right Off the Bat. Mostly in spite of my efforts (such as they have been) the … Continue reading
Filling in Admirably for Martin on the World Cup
Ship to shore. Ship to shore. I, Evander, “baseball nut”, will be filling in (I don’t know how admirably) for Martin over the next few days of World Cup 2011 play to report my findings. (Not to worry, serious cricket … Continue reading
Australia Forever?
While I was watching Australia desultorily dismantle Kenya in the World Cup a stat was issued by the uninterested commentators: that the Australians’ inevitable victory would be their thirty-fourth consecutive win in the World Cup—a run that has extended over … Continue reading
In Praise of South Africa
I fear that I give short shrift to South Africa in Right Off the Bat. Partly this is because during the 1970s and 1980s, when I was growing to love the game of cricket, the South Africans were excluded from … Continue reading
Posted in South Africa
Tagged A. B. de Villiers, Dale Steyn, Jacques Kallis, World Cup
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The World Cup So Far
So, we’re just over half way through the global one-day cricket shindig known as the World Cup, and there have been few surprises. The Associate Member nations—the second-tier cricketing teams that once every four years get to play with the … Continue reading
Why Irish Eyes Are Smiling
The Irish cricket team have just pulled off the unthinkable. Not only have they beaten England—generally fancied as the much better team—but they’ve done so in style, and staging the largest ever run chase in World Cup history: 328. They … Continue reading
Malinga the Marauder: The Bringer of Yorkers
What can one say about the Sri Lankan fast bowler Lasith Malinga, deliverer of torment to batsmen everywhere through his mastery of one of most deadly weapons in a bowler’s arsenal: the yorker? This is a ball that is speared right at … Continue reading
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