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On the official website of SPIN cricket magazine there is a very exciting ‘special podcast’ where Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy is interviewed. I have previously mentioned on this blog how simply brilliant the cricket themed ...(
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Indexed December 16, 2009
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To use a line from the great cricket blogger Rich Abbott of The Lions Cricket and The Corridor fame, ‘To the literally tens of people who read this blog’,
It has been short and sweet but we have reached the end of the ‘a v...(
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I logged onto cricinfo to check on the days events and saw that Virender Sehwag had scored 284*. I thought ‘bloody ‘ell, that’s pretty good!’, so I went and watched the highlights and, yes it was good. It was amazing...(
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On the official website of SPIN cricket magazine there is a very exciting ’special podcast’ where Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy is interviewed.
I have previously mentioned on this blog how simply brilliant the cricket themed ...(
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I’ve been a while but please excuse me, it’s all rather busy during the ’silly season’ over at www.anf1blog.com – another blog I run.
So, while I have been gone, what have I missed out on?
Shep – I had t...(
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Indexed November 29, 2009
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Today South African spinner Johan Botha has been reported for having an illegal action, but is it?
According to Wikipedia:
In the sport of cricket, throwing, commonly referred to as chucking, is an illegal bowling action which occurs when...(
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So, the clash of the titans series is over and it was a series that ended Zimbabwe 4 Kenya 1. It hardly sounds like the most exciting series ever does it. Can’t have been worse than the England vs Australia series though.
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Whenever I type ‘a view from the pavilion’ in to Google in an attempt to reach my blog, it is annoyingly always the second in the list behind the ‘Pavilion View Hotel’ in Margate, Kent.
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I know this is hardly breaking news or anything, but just now was the first time I thought about it. Why has Matthew Hoggard been let go of by Yorkshire? I may support the white roses county but unfortunately I can’t see their logic...(
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I was just thinking why doesn’t Marcus Trescothick make a return to the England international side even if it was just for the ODI games or T20’s, we could really do with him and he really would bring class to line up, as well...(
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Yesterday in the CLT20 it was a bit of a nightmare for the English players and teams.
Somerset CCC were soundly beaten by Trinidad & Tobago with none of Somerset’s English players bowling at an economy rate of 6.75. Chasing 150...(
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For those not interested in the Champions League Twenty20 which is happening in India in the minute, there is possibly one of the biggest ODI series ever going on at the moment which should really be drawing in the crowds, especially after...(
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In our latest English player update I bring you the participation of Owais Shah and the Sussex Sharks as the English participants on the 11th October.
First of all Sussex who failed miserably. Really quite miserably. Chasing 130 they only ...(
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Everyone without Sky (including me)should have a terrific excuse to get fat and watch some free cricket when the England-Australia Ashes series returns to terrestrial TV in 2013, according to this article from The Observer:
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Lets get straight into it. Dmitri Mascarenhas seemed to get the job half correct, as he was the best bowler on his team, bowling 4 overs for 20 runs and taking 2 wickets, however he went in to bat and left pretty quickly again after making...(
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Yesterday the Professional Cricketers Association awards were announced and they were as follows:
2009 PCA awards
Player of the Year: Marcus Trescothick (Somerset)
Young Player of the Year: James Taylor (Leicestershire)
ECB Special Award:...(
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You may or may not have noticed depending on your knowledge of Sir Ian Botham, Michael Vaughan, Shane Warne and golf in general that the aforementioned have recently been participating in the golf competition the Dunhill Links Championship....(
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Yeah, slick title! Anyway, over the course of the little Champions League Twenty20 tournament I will be tracking the progress of all English players in the competition. The first English player to record his first score of the competition,...(
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While just re-reading my last blog post and going over the England ODI squad for the South Africa tour, I just noticed the surprising absence of Owais Shah. Instead they seem to have replaced him with Alastair Cook or Sajid Mahmood.
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Steven Harmison and Ravi Bopara have been left out of the England squad to tour South Africa. Have the selector’s got it right? Half right in my book. The squads are below courtesy of Cricinfo.
Test squad Andrew Strauss (capt), James And...(
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