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My Lord pretends to be a bowler for the day and there are removal vans ...

Posted: March 11th, 2010, 1:05pm MST by Sidthegnomenator

Once again, the match started while I was asleep and I had to go to work, so I only got to see some of our batting and none of our bowling. This, of course, means I missed My Blessed actually showing up and taking 3-46 (I hear he was "mauled" by Tuffey - lucky Dazza!) and Mitchy's dancing. Mitchy really is just too happy lately - I think he is secretly pleased that someone else's relationship is being trumpeted over the media (although if Pup's mum puts in an appearance, I might get scared). The good news is that it
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The Interblogactic IPL Battle

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 6:00am MST by Sidthegnomenator

In case you had forgotten, I managed to get a bit carried away with the IPL (there was that woman, remember?) for day or two and have now found myself taking part in the Paddlesweep's spectacular IPL Blogtastic Superblogular battle. Having recently told our Miss Jane that I tend to only write about Australian cricket (with the odd exception), I will soon be a cruel mockery of myself as I write match reports on all Chennai Super Kings matches in the IPL. I don't plan to stop writing about Australia, though (that would be impossible),
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Mussey moves on up; Hads impresses with the bat again and we win - the world makes sense again.

Posted: March 9th, 2010, 8:49am MST by Sidthegnomenator

In the absence of Pup, Mussey moved up to number 4 today. It wasn't that successful, but it was only a temporary measure - we should be seeing Tasmanian George Bailey in the side for the next match, which I'm excited about because I'm a huge Jimmy Stewart fan - and it is always good to experiment like that. We have to be flexible. After all, it's only a matter of time before Rhianna breaks a fingernail and Punter has to rush home mid-tour as well. New Zealand, George - you're going to
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Bingle's Breasts trump international cricket

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 5:08pm MST by Sidthegnomenator

We have been asked to respect Pup's privacy. Piss right off. The guy has gone home from New Zealand because his shy and retiring missus flashed her breasts to a footballer a couple of years back and the picture has just been published. Sorry, but I don't care. A divorce; a death in the family; lack of golf; a birth; your pet pig learning to fly - these are all valid reasons for the vice-captain of an international cricket team to leave in the middle of a tour and go
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When Sachin met the Don ... and Belinda.

Posted: March 8th, 2010, 4:38pm MST by Sidthegnomenator

Tendulkar: Mr Bradman ... Bradman: ... that's Sir Bradman, actually. T: ... of course, sorry. Sir Bradman. B: Call me Don. The rest of the world does. So, I hear you've done quite well. T: I'm the first person ever to get a double century in an ODI. Did you ever do anything like that? B: Well, I never played one-day cricket. My playing career ended in the 40s, remember? I did finish with a career average of 99.94 though. T: Mine's about 55
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Punter ignores himself and cheeky Vettori tries it on.

Posted: March 6th, 2010, 10:52am MST by Sidthegnomenator

After the loss in the first ODI, Punter put out a call to arms telling his batsmen (himself included) to get their shit together. It seems they all answered the call, except Punter himself. And Pup. Hads, Cammie and the Muss all got over 50; Twatto got 47 (just under a milestone - now, that's not like our Twatto, is it?) and Jimmeh did all right again, this time making 29 before being run out. Having said that, if we learned anything from the first ODI it's that we will probably need to be getting 290+ to
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A little picture or 2 to tide you over ...

Posted: March 5th, 2010, 11:22am MST by Sidthegnomenator

... seeing as I am lacking in inspiration, I thought I'd post a couple of pictures instead. Boring, I know, but let's hope I get a clearer head and some ideas tomorrow. It should be easier when we've won :-) Lords under snow, January 2010 Once upon a time, NSW's Captain Kat was Derbyshire's Captain Kat, and we spent a lot of time at the cricket (usually watching Derbyshire lose); this was one of the many days we had to
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Application to be ICC president

Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 6:00am MST by Sidthegnomenator

Dear Cricket Australia and NZ Cricket, My name is John Howard. You might remember me as the little guy from Bennelong who made lots of noise in the Australian parliament in the 80s and early 90s. And then I was Prime Minister of that country for about 11 years, although everyone is still trying to work out why. Even me. I would like to be president of the ICC. I think you should nominate me because: I coined the term "cricket tragic" (or claim to, anyway) I'm white. My middle
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Excuse me!! Who said the Kiwis could learn to play cricket?

Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 2:42pm MST by Sidthegnomenator

Right, listen up! You all clearly misunderstood me ... when I said I was bored and wanted a bit of excitement, it was on the proviso that Australia still end up winning, if only by a lesser margin. So what the hell is going on? How dare New Zealand feel they have the right to win not one, but two matches against us? And how dare the guy who did most of the work be an old, chubby fucker? Jeez, Scottie ... you've really let yourself go, mate. I
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Bangladesh lose to an Irishman and I throw my opinion about again.

Posted: March 2nd, 2010, 4:28pm MST by Sidthegnomenator

Dammit, Bangladesh - I really thought you had this one. Decent batting performance and a miserable one from England, with the exception of Eeeewwoooinn Morgan (or however you spell it) who became the first guy to get a century for two different countries (or something like that) (it was England, I wasn't that interested) (I would have been if they'd lost). Bangladesh really looked on track to win after being put in to bat by Captain Cook and making 260, but just couldn't stop Morgan. Despite losing 8 wickets to a fairly average bowling attack, Morgan and
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Hildy reminds us who he is. Not that we care.

Posted: March 1st, 2010, 9:15am MST by Sidthegnomenator

Australia have named a so-called "preliminary" T20 squad to travel to the Caribbean. No one really knows why. It means shit. Basically around 30 guys have been named as players who might go to the Caribbean. They might not. And they might. I'm not going to type it out because I don't have all day and I would rather avoid RSI, particularly when the list means jack because we all know CA will go with the usual suspects. The list includes Binga, Pseudo Nathan, a heap of state players that no one outside of Australia will have
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I'm confused ...

Posted: February 28th, 2010, 10:51am MST by Sidthegnomenator

... was the match tied or did the Kiwis win? The way I see it (and I haven't, by the way, I've only read about it - Sky TV in the UK have decided to stop showing Australia's matches on the grounds that they keep winning and the Brits don't like it) NZ won. The match was tied, but because of the eliminator-in-which-no-one-was-eliminated, NZ won. So our winning streak has come to an end, but the "series" was drawn. Why does crapinfo still list the result as match tied? And why
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Well, that was inevitable, wasn't it?

Posted: February 26th, 2010, 9:54am MST by Sidthegnomenator

Just as I have been questioning Mitchy's ability as a T20 bowler, the cheeky git only goes and takes 3 - 19 against New Zealand. It was nice to see him bat a bit higher up the order, which is something he's been wanting to try, even if he only managed 1 run. And when the hell did he get so scary? This one raises the eyebrows, doesn't it:
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The Day the World Stopped Turning

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 6:00am MST by Sidthegnomenator

On an emotive whim, many Australians will tell you that our greatest day of mourning is the anniversary of the day we lost the Ashes after 17 straight years in 2005. That day sucked. I cried. True cricket fans, however, will always return to the 25th February. On that day, in 2001, the world stopped turning, if only for a moment; birds stopped singing; dogs declined to bark; children stopped laughing; the wind refused to whistle through the parched trees of Terra Australis and every Australian who had ever so much as looked at
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All Hail the Master

Posted: February 24th, 2010, 12:50pm MST by Sidthegnomenator

I'm pretty excited about our unbeaten summer, but nothing for a long time will compare with what Sachin Tendulkar has just done. 200 off 147 balls First man ever to reach 200 in an ODI What is there to say? I think Shane Warne summed it up on Twitter: yes yes yes !!!!!! well done Sachin my friend ... congrats and well done !!!!! awesome ... South Africa will be chasing over 400 to win, but who cares about the result now?
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The Deed is done; the Summer is won (and I promise no more rhyming)

Posted: February 23rd, 2010, 2:39pm MST by Sidthegnomenator

Despite being 6-77 at one point - in part thanks to the great fielding of Little Stevie, Missing Link Davey and Dussey (who we saw more of in this match than we have done for the past 4 years) - the Windies surpised us with a late hit to get to 138. Not the highest, but better than I had been expecting. My ancestors were definitely apes Twatto, Missing Link and Hads reached 138 by the 12th over (24 runs off the first over - nice), with The Link pulling off the
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The Ponting Effect

Posted: February 21st, 2010, 11:48am MST by Sidthegnomenator

I make no secret of the fact that I think T20 is a waste of time at international level, yet recently I have really enjoyed it. And we're not as shit at it as I thought. I stand corrected on my previous post re: getting walloped in the Caribbean. I don't think we will. I imagine part of the reason we are currently less shit is because CA are selecting players who don't play so much internationally but have spent a fair amount of time playing T20 at state level (as opposed to using our ODI and Test players who
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My Lord has a sleep in and some other stuff about NZ

Posted: February 20th, 2010, 12:00pm MST by Sidthegnomenator

So Ricky Ponting has finally paid some attention to me and allowed My Lord a wee sleep in or two, for the final ODI yesterday, and again through the T20s against the West Indies. He has made way for Little Stevie Smith to be all cute in his green and gold, which is way too big for him: But, rest assured, My Blessed Lord Nails will be back for the tour to New Zealand and will get his chance to play T20 and hopefully claim a place in the
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On the phone with Ricky Ponting

Posted: February 19th, 2010, 11:31am MST by Sidthegnomenator

Sid: So, Rick, you win again. Rick: Yep, looks like it Sid. The boys are having a good summer. Sid: Any special mentions? Rick: Well, Doug Bollinger today was ... Sid: ... yeah, yeah, whatever. Are you not bored with just sweeping aside inferior opposition all the time? Rick: Bored? Are you mad? Of course not. Sid: Bloody hell, the rest of us are. Here's hoping the T20s are more interesting. The Aussies are pretty shit at T20, aren't they?
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The Book, The Bear, The Podcast, the Mag and Dresden Cricket Club.

Posted: February 18th, 2010, 9:42am MST by Sidthegnomenator

While we've been waiting for Australia to get this damned ODI series over and done with and onto the T20s (which should be marginally more interesting, despite the fact that they are T20s), some stuff has been going on. As you may or may not have known, we all had a chance to win a copy of Jrod's book When Freddie Became Jesus. There were two copies going begging, courtesy of Jrod's buddy Iain O'Brien and they were indeed won by two lucky buggers. What I bet you really didn't know (and I'm not actually
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The awards they don't talk about at the AB Medal event.

Posted: February 16th, 2010, 11:02am MST by Sidthegnomenator

So, Twatto won the AB Medal - like we didn't see that coming. But did you see these coming? And the winner is ... Rhianna Ponting - the "I'm really bending my knees" award Michelle Clarke - the "Oh my God, I married a giant" award Lara Bingle - the "How fake is my tan?" award Katrina Quaine - the "How fake is my hair colour?" award Hayley Rich Bracken - the "How
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