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for only a dollar a day you can save a Pakistani cricketer
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 1:19pm MDT by jrod
Pakistani cricketers need your support! The Cash For At Risk Cricketers Centre (formerly Cricket United’s National Trust Society) in Lahore, Pakistan is an organisation, counselling service, safe haven, medical clinic, and education hub caring for vulnerable cricketers who need your help! Giving just a DOLLAR-A-DAY ($30 a month) for a year will help sponsor a cricketer and give them a chance at avoiding life bans. The at risk cricketers, from test to t20, have survived terrible collapses and experienced horrible bureaucracy which most of us could never -
Exclusive: Cricket Australia give two players life bans for betting on Test Matches
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 12:21pm MDT by jrod
Cricket Australia (CA) has given two very high profile Australian cricketers life bans to prove that they are serious about cleaning up the game of cricket. The decision follows a breach of team rules and ICC regulations during an Ashes test match that Australia went on to lose. CA Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland said Dennis Lillee and Rodney Marsh would be given life bans from playing cricket from Australia and would the ICC would be informed of this decision immediately. Pending ICC approval, the players will be allowed to work in cricket,... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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Taking the positives from Pakistan’s spot fixing crisis
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 12:31am MDT by jrod
We can all sit down and think about how shit this all this is. Or we can look for positives. Or at the very least ways people can sound smugger. If you all can’t get at least one positive (smug statement) from these, you just aren’t trying hard enough. Honours Bored North, Watson and Stuart Broad all have their names on the Honours board at Lord’s. Frankly, I couldn’t give a shit, but if this bothers you, mentally you can put an asterisk next to them. Or you can do a lord’s tour and just... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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My £150,000 Worth
Posted: August 31st, 2010, 4:02pm MDT by theskiver
It is difficult to find anything new to say on the whole match fixing story, at least at this stage, so what follows is a very personal view. For my part, I haven’t believed that cricket was 100% clean for several years. Not since the Cronje affair. But I could never see how anyone would fix an element of a game. It always seemed too complicated, too risky, to fix the batting element. It is all very well to bet on a batsman getting a duck, and paying him to get a duck, but suppose... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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spot fixing in print
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 5:22pm MDT by jrod
The last edition of the cricket sadist’s quarterly had a piece on spot fixing written by me. It’s now tragically out of date, but I think it’s worth a read. About a year ago a cricketer contacted me to talk about fixing in cricket. He was positive it was happening again, at ICL, IPL and International level. He even specified games that he and others thought it had happened in. I checked into these games and came up with other reasons why things happened the way they did. The player was very upset, but he didn’t see how coming... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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10 things that could happen to you that would be worse than Pakistani players spot fixing in a test match
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 7:49pm MDT by jrod
10. Tony Grieg arrives at your door step. “No need to grovel, I’ll happily come in and spend all night chatting to you and your Asian bride”. 9. You could be giving birth to a child and ask for a an epidural and have Allan Border come in. “If you can’t hack it, let’s get a tough Queenslander out here - get me Greg Ritchie”. 8. You could find yourself in a 7 hour press conference of a former great international as he battles rumours that he is gay. “I’m not... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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Fuck off match fixers
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 12:49am MDT by jrod
I want to work in cricket. Not because it makes me rich, not because I’ll ever play for my country, and not because I think it is a cool job. I do it because cricket is something that I love. Since I was a child it has been the one constant in my life. My first overseas trip was for cricket. When I was a kid I slept with a new bat in my dead. My Friday afternoons were all about working out the best fielding positions for the next day. I spent... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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Pakistan, welcome to hell
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 7:09pm MDT by jrod
Mr Pakistan, a dashing figure with long flowing silky smooth hair and a three day growth, enters the room. He was fairly unsure of why he was there, and he also couldn’t remember how he got there, but there he was, in the room. It was a white room with a signed picture of Paris Hilton in the corner, although the signature was from Shoaib Akhtar. There was also a chair, and Mr Pakistan sat down. As he did a projector started up and on it was Mark Nicholas swaying from side to side.... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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Stuart Broad makes a test century
Posted: August 27th, 2010, 9:29pm MDT by jrod
Today I had the displeasure of seeing Stuart Broad make a hundred. That is all. [http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cricketwithballs.com%2F2010%2F08%2F27%2Fstuart-broad-makes-a-test-century%2F"] title="Retweet This Post">... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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what the players think of 45 overs split innings matches
Posted: August 26th, 2010, 11:02pm MDT by jrod
Not long ago I wrote about the Cricket Australia plan to dice up the one day game. What do I care. I don’t like one day cricket that much and I’ll hardly see any of the games. But, the players have much more an interest in it, so why not let them chat about it. So here is two differing opinions from current Australian domestic players. Due to contracts, I have to not name one of the players, I’m sure you’ll understand why. Positive: I’m sure @... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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dropping the selectors
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 5:19pm MDT by jrod
”At no stage have they told any selector that his job is being dissolved, discontinued. One of us has to drop off, not anyone has been told who that one is going to be. Our future is in someone else’s hands. Obviously we would like to know who it is. If it is me that gets dropped off the list, I have enjoyed my time with the Australian cricket team, it has been absolutely fantastic. What happens going forward is out of my hands.” Merv Hughes OK, you’ve now read... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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Look, Foxes Shooting Themselves
Posted: August 25th, 2010, 8:01am MDT by theskiver
If you thought that the goings on in Pakistani cricket were bizarre, then look no further than Leicestershire County Cricket Club. In the 1990s, the side were a force in County cricket, twice Championship winners and perennial contenders in the one day game. When T20 cricket came along in the 2000s, they won two of the first three competitions. Since 2003, things have gone badly downhill in other ways. The membership has shrunk by, on some counts, 66%. The club has made a profit in only one of the intervening years, and began and then... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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Just When You Thought It Wasn’t Going To Get Stranger
Posted: August 24th, 2010, 11:50pm MDT by theskiver
This Pakistani selection story just keeps getting stranger. Today they announced the squad for the upcoming one day games against England. Strangely, Mohammed Yousuf was in it. That’s Yousuf, a man who has always given the impression that he feels the same way about one day cricket as Shahid Afridi does about Tests – it is a nice idea in theory, but I’m not really the guy for it so why pick me? More surprisingly, Shoaib Malik wasn’t in the squad. Malik and Yousuf famously have the sort of relationship that makes John Howard and... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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The father podcast
Posted: August 24th, 2010, 4:13pm MDT by jrod
Enclosure: [download]
In terms of self indulgence, recording a podcast with your own father must be pretty high. We talk about Sobers, empty bars, bums, modern bowlers, spin in junior cricket and Warne. Powered by Podbean.com For the download. Available on itunes. Here is the feed. [http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cricketwithballs.com%2F%3Fp%3D9103"] title="Retweet This Post">... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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Hey baby, let me manage your talent
Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 8:17pm MDT by jrod
Just when you assume that Cricket Australia can’t make you laugh, they pour acid in your ear and light your pubes on fire. It didn’t seem to matter that Greg Chappell as a coach was like being made to kill your own dog, Cricket Australia seem to love him. Perhaps it was because all of them owned the Greg Chappell hats as kids, or maybe they’ll all mental cuntards. Either way, they have now outdone themselves and given Chappell the first ever full time selector role. His first decision was to... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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balls profile: Mark Boucher
Posted: August 23rd, 2010, 11:50am MDT by jrod
No player is more like a reliable station wagon than Mark Boucher. Holds the records for the most dismissals as a wicket keeper in test cricket. Has done this without being a particularly great wicket keeper. He is also not much of a batsman. Yet there he is, behind the stumps, being all Boucher like. Plucky, game, in for a scrap and more likeable than the whole team combined. He is one hell of a cliche generator. Right now I want to call him someone I would go to war with. I’d love to hate him, but he just... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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I’m back, and I brought mystery fingers holding a sausage
Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 10:19pm MDT by jrod
Somehow I survived the rugged terrain of Sri Lanka. There is heaps of cricket shit to tell you, but I need to sleep. But this is by far my favourite ad of any I saw. Not enough cricketers hold sausages. And very few mystery spinners wrap their magical fingers around one. Hopefully Mendis has started a trend. Think what his fingers could do with that sausage. [http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cricketwithballs.com%2F%3Fp%3D9086"] title="Retweet This Post">... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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balls profile: Ajathna Mendis
Posted: August 21st, 2010, 1:48am MDT by jrod
No one has got more famous for inventing ball that pretty much goes straight. Before being worked out he was the most dangerous bowler in world cricket. Now he is Chris Harris, without the impressive hair. Bowls faster than most spin bowlers, and has never really mastered flight. Anyone who can control as many deliveries as he can should surely be able to adapt. If not, he should go to County cricket and be the first bowler to take One Million first class wickets. Is a second lieutenant in the Sri Lankan Army, in second life he sells sneakers... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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balls profile: ravi rampaul
Posted: August 20th, 2010, 1:45am MDT by jrod
No man can waddle like Ravi Rampaul. His hips are seductive weapons he uses to distract batsmen as he comes in to bowl his medium fast occasional swingers. Prone to overs of such ineptitude that even Morne Morkel feels sorry for him. Then he gets it right, and you can sort of see why he keeps getting picked. Apparently he was once a batsman. This is mentioned during his many innings of looking like shit, but even more so in the odd innings where he does make runs. If Ravi was a maths equation, I wouldn’t be able to... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...
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balls profile: Rizwan Cheema
Posted: August 19th, 2010, 1:43am MDT by jrod
Canada’s slogger. Hits every ball he faces to midwicket. This isn’t true, but I’ve mostly seen highlights, and in the highlights he hits every ball to midwicket. Is a ringer, from Pakistan, but John Davison was a ringer, and look how that worked. The way he hits the ball he must be very close to an IPL deal. Also, with him around it gives us all more chances to say Canuck. [http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cricketwithballs.com%2F%3Fp%3D9054"] title="Retweet This Post">... [ Click on title to read the original article ] ...