Archive for the 'Cricket Highlights' Category
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Missing words and missing scruples
Put yourself in these shoes. You run a television broadcast. Let’s say, just for argument, it’s Channel Nine’s cricket. You’re sitting on a crucial piece of audio, for instance audio that contains a certain potent word. For this exercise, we might call that word ‘monkey’. You know its very existence would close a racial abuse [...]
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Dreary Adelaide pitch lets series down
Adelaide Oval Curator Les Burdett might be a legend in South Australia, however the rest of the world is asking questions about another highway, which reduced what should have a pulsating series decider into a boring, uneventful grind.
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Cricket Columns
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Missing words and missing scruples (30/1/08)
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Dreary Adelaide pitch lets series down (29/1/08)
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Why in the middle of a test, Gilly? (26/1/08)
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Forget knifing Gilly, save the blades for Hogg(25/1/08)
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Roebuck single is a hit but the album is a flop(13/1/08)
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Mat Thompson: Hypocrisy and hysteria(8/1/08)
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ICC gets it right as crisis surely eases (8/1/08)
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World record with an asterisk (7/1/08)
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Can Hussey catch Bradman?(16/12/07)
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Australia can break streak [...]
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Why in the middle of a test match, Gilly?
The instant retirement of Adam Gilchrist will at least ensure the rampant criticism will immediately be replaced by celebration. Print space dedicated to negative comment - a fair portion laced with agenda – will be handed over to memories of a legend who will surely go down as one of the greatest ten cricketers of [...]
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Forget knifing Gilly, save the blades for Hogg
Ricky Ponting said before the Adelaide test that Brad Hogg was the best spinner in the country. This is the same Ponting also relegated Hogg to the sidelines in the heat of the Sydney test, preferring part-timers Andrew Symonds and Michael Clarke to save the day.So which version are you going to believe?
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Hypocrisy and hysteria
By Mat Thompson - Fox Sports News
People are by nature, emotionally driven, and no sport provokes emotion quite like cricket. Behind the hysteria surrounding India’s tour of Australia, lies a mountain of hypocrisy.
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ICC gets it right as crisis surely eases
It’s rare to have a crisis in world cricket in which the usually impotent ICC stands above the crowd. As their boss Mal Speed puts it: “This is an extraordinary set of circumstances.”
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World record with an asterisk
Three wickets in five balls to win a test match, with the clock ticking and the sun setting.
A world record equalled.
The stuff dreams are made of.
Has victory ever felt so sour?
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Can Hussey catch Bradman?
The scary thing is Mike Hussey once had a test average of 15.
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Buchanan must be nuts
John Buchanan is an ideas man. Built a career on it. Must have been good ideas, given his enormous success with Queensland and Australia.
His latest one is a doozy.