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Fly Slip

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  Is he German?

  Posted: February 9th, 2010, 8:02am MST by damiths

  I am talking about Dale Steyn. This is one ruthless motherfucker. Clocking in with a Strike rate of under 39, this ripped beast from Phalaborwa is fast becoming the monster in every kids nightmare. We are sure Dale would have no problem drop-kicking a baby if it came to it. That strike rate of 38 is the best amongst any current cricketer and it’s set to get lower the longer the first test goes on at Nagpur. He isn’t just quick. Not nearly something as easy as that. He runs in like he

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  India, again ?

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 9:33pm MST by damiths

  Playing against India is the epitome for any Cricket team these days. The players know they can become stars overnight with a possible viewing audience of over 1 billion people. The boards know that they can rake in the money with advertising deals. The cricket wouldn’t be too bad either. But I am Sri Lankan and I say enough with playing India. Every time I turn on the TV there is an orgy of blue out in the middle. And its not just the One dayers either - there is only so much test cricket

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The Boundary Rider

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  Pitch Maps: why Steyn kicks Morkel's ass

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 8:00pm MST by Luke Tagg

  I'm like a kid in a candy store with Cricinfo's new Hawk-Eye feature, which now comes standard with every live scorecard. Maybe I should get out more, but as a dude who writes about cricket this is as good as it gets. To get the full experience you need to use it yourself - there are all sorts of hidden gems which unlock the story of a game, including the ability to see a short animation of the trajectory of any ball that appears on the pitch map. It's exactly the same as the

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  The Omega Steyn

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 6:51pm MST by jrod

  “Hello, little boy. So you think you are better than me, than me, DALE WILLEM STEYN. I would laugh if I wasn’t ripping your limbs off.  You should thank your lucky stars they even let the likes of you on the same turfed surface as me.  Just looking at your pathetic faces makes me want to hurt you.  Every single fibre of your being disgusts me.  It is hard for me even to think of you existing without tasting the bile in my throat.  I am number one. Number ONE.  There is no one else on the planet

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The Boundary Rider

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  Warnie's plan for a global cricket club

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 6:30pm MST by Luke Tagg

  Shane Warne and the Rajasthan Royals unveiled a plan today to form a global T20 cricket club under the "Royals" brand involving Rajasthan, Hampshire, Trinidad & Tobago and the Cape Cobras, with Victoria's Bush Rangers reportedly close to signing as well. Described as "the first global sport alliance" the new brand means all the franchises involved will take the name of their new master, adding "Royals" to their titles. Hampshire, therefore, becomes Hampshire Royals. I mailed the Cape Cobras to find out what their name would be changed to and how it would affect

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The Nightwatchgirl™

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  Shane: Your Mouth Is Too Big For Your Face

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 5:33pm MST by The Nightwatchgirl

  Yes. The mighty one has spoken. You remember: he used to play a bit of cricket for Australia. Liked the girls. Liked his food a bit too much. NWG thinks he may have got a few wickets to his name too. And now he sticks his oar in precisely where it's not welcome. Andrew Strauss shouldn't be missing the Bangladesh tour, he says. It won't help him or the England team for the Ashes, he says. Don't remember you saying that to Ricky Ponting when he went home during the ODI series last summer. Or is that

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The Boundary Rider

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  SA's plan to Sehwag from a Hawk-Eye perspective

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 4:19pm MST by Luke Tagg

  Indian opener Virender Sehwag faced a bunch of short-pitched bowling from South Africa's pacemen on Day 3 of the first Test between India and South Africa in Nagpur, but hardly touched any of it. When questioned by the Times of India about why he had left so much short bowling alone he replied: "I'm not a good puller or hooker". Which is nice to know. Straight from the horse's mouth. Pack away your video analysis, fire your statistician, cancel the team meeting and don't bother with a second opinion. Viru doesn't

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Chinese Cut

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  Same Result, Different Day

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 2:45pm MST by dwiseman

  The Australian players make like it but it makes for pretty boring cricket. When they win all the time, it seems anti-climatic. This first happened with the Pakistanis who just about gave up and now the West Indies seem to be afflicted by the same thing. Against Australia in Melbourne, they restricted Australia to a chaseable [...]

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The Boundary Rider

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  Blame Steyn for the pain

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 12:53pm MST by Luke Tagg

  Dale Steyn took his best ever bowling figures to rout India in Nagpur and if ever there was any doubt as to who the world's premier fast bowler is, look no further. Sorry, Ricky - as fine as your guys are, I'll take Steyn any day. It doesn't get better than this. Steyn's 7/51 was followed up with 1/14 after India was asked to follow on and it was the most important wicket of the lot - Virender Sehwag, who was the only Indian batsman to thrive in the first innings (109 off 139

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Thoughts from the Dustbin

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  Some stuff that went on at the G (and around)

  Posted: February 8th, 2010, 9:56am MST by Sidthegnomenator

  The Stanis reminded us that T20 is totally their game ... and then somehow managed to lose the match that was totally theirs for the taking. Punter announced that his bowlers are the best in the world and it was reported in a Crapinfo article that managed to not mention My Lord even once. Mitchy cowered like a frightened turtle before the bowling of Umar Gul, Dirky looked bloody petrified and Naved-ul-Hasan looked damn impressive - that wrong 'un that sent Little Stevie Smith packing was fabulous. I nearly gave Kamran Akmal

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  Little Nathan strikes again

  Posted: February 7th, 2010, 11:55pm MST by jrod

  “Oh, he is so cute and loveable; I just wanna take him home to my mum so we can double team him”. I know that is what you think about little Nathan Hauritz.  But behind that puppy dog exterior is a cold-hearted assassin.  One who will kill anyone to get where he wants.  An aspirational career driven sociopath. Not only has he led many a batsman to their untimely and embarrassing end, he is also taking out Australian spinners one at a time. First was beautiful Beau Casson, who was too

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The Boundary Rider

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  Kallis and the double-century problem

  Posted: February 7th, 2010, 10:03pm MST by Luke Tagg

  A few years ago, when I was writing my old sports column The 12th Man, we were sitting around bitching about Jacques Kallis one day when an Aussie came on and asked why we were always giving Jakes such a hard time. His argument was that Kallis is the best batsman South Africa has ever had, to go with his impressive bowling stats. He couldn't understand why we didn't have our tongues buried eight feet up Jakes' ass. He had a point. But he also missed one. There's no arguing the

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Fly Slip

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  Dilshan does New Zealand

  Posted: February 7th, 2010, 9:31pm MST by AndrewF

  Some of you may know that T.M. Dilshan graced New Zealand with his presence recently. He came over, got flown around in his own helicopter, was waited on hand and foot and I’m pretty sure there was a street parade for him somewhere where a gold statue of him was unveiled. He then showed the crowd the bling around his neck and made them all feel inadequate. He was pretty much the biggest celebrity to hang out in New Zealand since the Flight of the Conchords realised they were actually good and left to a

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  South Africa’s retro soundtrack numbs me

  Posted: February 7th, 2010, 7:04pm MST by jrod

  I wrote a whole post about the first two days of this series. Then I deleted it. Frankly, you’d be better off pretending you saw this. Or you could fantasize about how a series like this could have started if Steyn and Sehwag were going head to head on the first day. Anything to scrub the last two days out of your mind.

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The Boundary Rider

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  Dirk Nannes: international man of mystery

  Posted: February 7th, 2010, 4:23pm MST by Luke Tagg

  I make no secret of nor apologies for my obsession with the speed gun in cricket. I've always loved genuine quick bowling and it's the only method I have of judging who is fast. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that one of my favourite cricketers is Dirk Nannes, the half-Aussie, half-Dutch paceman who describes himself as "the accidental cricketer". I don't just like him for his fearsome pace and swing, however - the man himself is a cricketing rarity and more full of surprises than any given Ajantha

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  Amla's double-ton smashes records

  Posted: February 7th, 2010, 2:34pm MST by Luke Tagg

  Hashim Amla's awesome 253* against India in the first Test in Nagpur broke all sorts of batting records for both him and South African cricket, as the Proteas compiled 558/6 declared in their first innings. A number of factors were stacked against him making such a score: the team was in disarray following the shock resignation of Mickey Arthur and the subsequent sacking of the selectors, he was away from home in probably the most difficult part of the world to bat, the pitch was turning like a fourth-day strip and he was facing the No. 1

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Thoughts from the Dustbin

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  Excuses, excuses ...

  Posted: February 7th, 2010, 12:03pm MST by Sidthegnomenator

  Having been a wee bit ill, and working my little behind off for little reward, I managed to miss that the first ODI between Aust and W.I. was on today. I assumed there would be more of a break, but there you go. So I haven't seen it, although I do know that we kicked some bowling arse (although from the scorecard the batting looked ordinary), that Ry the not Jimmeh continues to confound and that My Lord Nails got himself a wee 3 - 28. From here, I send you off to Ian

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  Everyone tampers, sometimes

  Posted: February 6th, 2010, 7:35pm MST by jrod

  Have you noticed that when Shahid Afridi came out and said everyone tampers with the ball the world’s ex-bowling community didn’t come out against him? When someone tampers there are always voices, but when Afridi accused everyone in one go you could just about hear crickets (those crickets). The loudest anti Afridi voice I heard was a fairly new boy on the block, the Dirty Dirk Nannes.  I love Dirk (proof is in the last post), but he is being naïve or worse when he says he has never come across ball tampering.  He seems

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The Boundary Rider

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  SA seize first day with Kallis and Amla tons

  Posted: February 6th, 2010, 4:47pm MST by Luke Tagg

  South Africa took control of the first Test against India in Nagpur on Saturday with stunning centuries from Jacques Kallis (159* off 290 balls) and Hashim Amla (115* off 225), ending the day on an imposing 291/2. It was a topsy-turvy old day for India, beginning badly with an injury to allrounder Rohit Sharma in the morning warm-up session which put him out of the Test. That left India with two debutants - one of them a wicketkeeper because there were no batsmen left in their squad. Things got better when Zaheer Khan picked

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Thoughts from the Dustbin

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  Captain Pup

  Posted: February 6th, 2010, 7:56am MST by Sidthegnomenator

  England is in some sort of uproar at the moment because their football captain, John Terry, has been sacked for shagging a team mate's girlfriend. I don't see what the problem is - what does a football captain actually do? It's not like cricket where the captain needs to know the game inside out and makes decisions that impact on the game from beginning to end (I repeat: Ponting - me, big stick, hit ball hard), is it? My standard pisstaking of Punter leads me nicely onto Pup ... I love him; I want him to be

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The Boundary Rider

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  Shaun Tait hits magical 160km/h mark vs Pakistan

  Posted: February 5th, 2010, 12:15pm MST by Luke Tagg

  Aussie quick Shaun Tait bowled the fastest ball ever recorded in Australia in the T20 International against Pakistan in Melbourne today: a blistering 160.7km/h. Only two bowlers have recorded quicker speeds than that: Shoaib Akhtar hit 161.3km/h and Brett Lee 160.9km/h, both in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. Defending a measly 127, Australia ended up winning the game by 2 runs, thanks largely to 3/13 from Tait, who was virtually unplayable. The first ball he bowled - the first of Pakistan's innings - was 156.3, the second 159.0 and

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Fly Slip

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  new poll

  Posted: February 5th, 2010, 11:27am MST by damiths

  So what does Megan Foxx and Dilshan have in common. Apparently sexiness. Says who? Says you. Because we asked you How sexy is Dilshans batting right now? You said. * megan fox-transformers 2, sexy (33.0%, 20 Votes) * sehwag on a good day sexy (32.0%, 19 Votes) * robert pattingson-twilight, sexy (15.0%, 9 Votes) * brad pitt- thelma and louise, sexy (13.0%, 8 Votes) * james dean, rebel without a cause, sexy Moving swiftly on to our next next bit of research, we ask you what you’d

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  Dirty

  Posted: February 5th, 2010, 10:06am MST by jrod

  Due to work on my flat I was up early enough to see the Australia v Pakistan 2020 game. I would never usually get up before 10 for limited overs, I’m not an animal. This time I’m glad I did. Not only did I hear James Brayshaw, aka JB, call Dirk, Dirty Dirk, I also saw Dirk bowl the senond last over for 2 runs and take a wicket. I think that gave me an emotional orgasm. I was pushing the Dirk bandwagon when there was no bandwagon, so

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Fly Slip

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  When Freddie became Jesus got nominated

  Posted: February 4th, 2010, 3:30am MST by damiths

  Once upon a time Uncle Jrod of www.cricketwithballs.com wrote a book. Then he wrote another one. That one, the 2nd one - in case you get confused,  got nominated for the best sports writer on www.thebookseller.com. The only glitch is that he had write about a Pom and religion to get there. How strange the ways of the world.

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  Introducing the Kiwi

  Posted: February 4th, 2010, 12:04am MST by damiths

  Well, quarter Kiwi-Three fourths Lankan. We are glad to introduce a new writer to our little family - Andrew Fernando Now you are thinking to yourself, “Damith is this the same Andrew Fernando who writes those deranged pieces on Cricinfo page2.” The answer of course is - “The very same”. Now, it must be noted that the reason Andrew is going to write for us is not because we begged him and literally bombarded his email and facebook in box’s - well, not solely because of that anyway.

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  Bloody Immigrants

  Posted: February 4th, 2010, 11:40pm MST by theskiver

  Coming over here. Taking our jobs. Taking up our bandwidth. Breathing our air. Marrying our women. Taking our blogs. And, now, threatening to take our awards as well. I didn’t even know that there was a category for ‘Greatest Number of Expletives Per Column Inch’, or ‘Most Gratuitous Mention of Bryce McGain in an Article’, but apparently Jrod has been nominated for some kind of award by the National Sporting Club. Which makes the rest of the socially inept munchkins who inhabit this place very

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The Boundary Rider

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  The Big 20: the craziest runs I ever made

  Posted: February 4th, 2010, 9:09pm MST by Luke Tagg

  I was never much of a cricketer at school, largely because I never had anyone to guide me. Coaches were always Geography teachers who would far rather be at home banging Biology teachers than being forced to coach a bunch of talentless, spotty teens who had absolutely no future in cricket. I was a much better bowler than a batsman, but I once made 20 runs in a second XI school match batting at No. 11, which remains my highest ever score - and one not likely to be bettered. The

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Thoughts from the Dustbin

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  The Chicken and the Egg

  Posted: February 4th, 2010, 7:57pm MST by Sidthegnomenator

  Are Aussies shit at T20 because they don't like it, or do they not like it because they are shit at it? Discuss. Either way, we are crap at it and the Stanis will be desperate for a win tomorrow; plus they are just a way better T20 side. Can't ignore that. Nobody really likes a series whitewash (unless they're playing England): the best test of this series was the one that had Australia's back to the wall and the best ODI was the last one - where Australia was way

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The Boundary Rider

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  India vs South Africa: 1st Test Preview

  Posted: February 4th, 2010, 7:45pm MST by Luke Tagg

  The battle for the world's number one ranking is on when India host South Africa in the first Test in Nagpur starting on Saturday. The odds are stacked heavily in India's favour as all they need is a drawn series to win the $175,000 for being No. 1 on the 1st of April, but that doesn't matter - South Africa play some of their best cricket when they've been written off. Not that anyone is writing them off, mind you - everyone seems to be of the same opinion: India should win it; South

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  jrod impregnates the book awards

  Posted: February 4th, 2010, 4:05pm MST by jrod

  Writing a book is cool. Finding a publisher is pretty cool. Selling more than 12 copies is cool as fuck. Getting nominated for best new sports writer by the British National Sporting Club is kinda fucked up. But, I did. I am not sure how, or why, but for some reason the mainstream is letting me sleep in the pornographic cupboard they pretend they don’t have in the guest house. My book won’t win, you can’t make jokes about killing Richie Benaud and win, but, as

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