Apologies to the millions who keep visiting this site - have been AWOL, caught up with work, family, kiddo and general inertia - in the reverse order. While I was away, lots happened in the cricket world - India lost the Test series in SA after threatening to make a fist of it with a historic win to only chuck it all away ridiculously, then won two ODI series at home, and promptly did the unthinkable and got knocked out of the World Cup well before time. DISASTER!
Well, shit happens - but nothing more depressing than Woolmer's death. How SAD is that? I truly hope that the culprits are caught, and then made to suffer a horrible death themselves.
The World Cup was a major fiasco in many ways - and not only because India didn't bother to turn up. Read Simon Barnes for a wonderful summary of what went wrong.
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Thursday, May 03, 2007
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Dream day for Monty
Very few days can be as amazing for a cricketer as Monty had today.
Imagine the backdrop to this - you are not picked for the first two matches of your first Ashes series, even though the entire world thought you deserved a place ahead of Giles. The coach is perhaps the only one against you. The clamour is so loud for you to come into the team, it almost feels like Superman being kept out of the team. It adds so much unnecessary pressure on you, and this is still your first season in international cricket. Finally the team management picks you, but on a pitch that was not so long ago known for pace, bounce and 6 byes!
You see the pitch, and you think - of shit, this is batting paradise and Ricky Ponting's lip smacking can be heard in your dressing room. What do you do then?
Why, go out there and pick 5 wickets, of course! What amazing stuff - fairytale innit? Speaks a lot for his temperament, his ability, and above all, sheer bloody luck. He has the mojo now - send him in next to bat I say!
Imagine the backdrop to this - you are not picked for the first two matches of your first Ashes series, even though the entire world thought you deserved a place ahead of Giles. The coach is perhaps the only one against you. The clamour is so loud for you to come into the team, it almost feels like Superman being kept out of the team. It adds so much unnecessary pressure on you, and this is still your first season in international cricket. Finally the team management picks you, but on a pitch that was not so long ago known for pace, bounce and 6 byes!
You see the pitch, and you think - of shit, this is batting paradise and Ricky Ponting's lip smacking can be heard in your dressing room. What do you do then?
Why, go out there and pick 5 wickets, of course! What amazing stuff - fairytale innit? Speaks a lot for his temperament, his ability, and above all, sheer bloody luck. He has the mojo now - send him in next to bat I say!
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