Cricket = Action = Art
“ There are few games which are as visually rich as the game of cricket. This blog is a vehicle for my shameless exploitation of that richness with a very slight talent and even slighter knowledge of Photoshop. ”
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Alistair Cook invokes the spirits of Albert Trott and SF Barnes in an attempt to make some in roads into the batting in Bangladesh.
The old style action is fine it is just that, as opposed to the old greats, it didn’t work very well....(more)
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Bangladesh
Keep your shirt on Lara he is on the way home....(more)
Jacob Oram goes down (in what looked like a self tackle), Michael Mason is called in to cover him and Adam Milne finds himself playing the second day of the Plunket Shield game CD v Canterbury. His first game at first class level. Next thi...(more)
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Jacob Oram
Chris Martin
You don’t really need the photoshop highlighting to understand where it hurts for Neil Broom.
The real surprise is that his greatest discomfort is not from ball on ball contact, nor the desperate need to go ’tinkles". What Neil...(more)
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Neil Broom
Good to see a bit of toe to toe in last night’s game.
I started thinking about these two teams as big/little brothers but in reality they are more like cousins. They see each other about once a year (unless there is a special occasio...(more)
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Cricket World Cup
Time to get back to a little grassroots cricket before the season and the sun is gone.
Here we see the mighty Whoppa Watkins demonstrating the "crossover technique" while bowling for the NPHSOB prems.
Part player, part coach, part adminis...(more)
Long may the stay related on the field....(more)
It is cricket Brendan, but not as we know it. A very unusual innings in a very unusual game.
There will be many Kiwis celebrating the victory and the shear audacity of McCullum but this one is much more concerned about how you can get to o...(more)
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Brendon McCullum
While all the scribes are rushing around trying to put it into words, we just know. He is one of the truly great....(more)
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Sachin Tendulkar
... we haven’t had a huge amount of sex!"
So refreshing to see a coach like Tim Nielson being so open about his and the teams problems.
Now I know there is some confusion between sex and six when it comes to talking kiwi or ...(more)
David "Piranha" Warner watches the ball on to the bat, and then presumably watched it fly majestically over the fence.
I was especially taken with the shadow of the ball on the bat - the laws of physics eh? - wonderful things....(more)
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Shane Warne
It doesn’t matter whether it is the deciding test of an ashes series or Kenya v The Netherlands, you miss a straight one and the result is always the same - and you get to look like a bit of a dick as well....(more)
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Netherlands
The Ashes
Dale Steyn may hate batsman but he is obviously a dog lover and a friend to all animals.
What does concern me is the fact that the dog does not have that air of menace you would expect from a member of the security forces. Before some one ...(more)
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Dale Steyn
Sadly the question is, how are we going to get the Aussies out once let alone twice?
You do have to admit though, he is the king of the sweat band....(more)
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Chris Martin
Actually, I think I might have. But then what do I know?
Well, I do know that the Bhaji is happy, and I can’t really blame him for that....(more)
Mahmudullah gives it the ramp and, like his maiden century, it was well deserved.
Both sides have been guilty of bowling too short - mindboggling given the conditions where everything is green and the sun has yet to be identified....(more)
You could forgive Alviro Petersen for thinking this test match stuff was a doddle, but he need only have asked Graeme Smith to discover it can just as easily bring you to your knees....(more)
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Graeme Smith
Partnership is a very strong theme coming through the test matches being played at present. Of course it helps when the partners are of the quality of Sehwag and Tendulkar. Guptil and McCullum may have a little way to go before they are at ...(more)
Sachin shares the benefit of his accumulated wisdom, but what is it you think he said?...(more)
If the Dili scoop is the cricket shot de jour, what is the next "invention" likely to be?
Give it some consideration people and don’t give me a variation on the prod!
Let’s see if we can’t come up with a shot, a name and...(more)
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