You’d rightly be feeling a little bit miffed at the moment. You can’t escape the hype surrounding Shane Warne and his 700th test wicket. Heck, I’m as guilty of it as anyone. Yes, 700 wickets is a huge feat and no doubt his impending retirement has added to the hype, but it seems one or two people have mysteriously forgotten about another famous spinner, Muttiah Muralitharan, whose match-winning 6 for 87 vs New Zealand went largely unnoticed.
Warne might be on 704 wickets after Day 1 of the 4th Test, but Murali is hardly slouching, currently hovering around the 680 wickets …read more

Congratulations to Shane Warne who became the first man to take 700 Test wickets. It really was the dream setting: home ground, 90,000 people, last test and 700 wickets. Andrew Strauss played all around a flighted top spinner. Shane took off for a celebration, which ironically seemed to be copied from the new boy of the spinning world, Monty Panesar. The ground erupted, and the applause lasted for several minutes.
Whilst watching it, I actually became a little saddened that he’s leaving the game. He’s been the nemesis of, well, virtually every International cricketer for as long as I can remember, …read more

About 6am this morning I got a text message from a good friend of mine:

Mate, am watching the cricket at the MCG. Can’t believe what a shocker. Hope you’ve had a good Xmas. Annabelle is still super hot.

Despite being incredibly jealous at my non-cricket-loving friend who was both watching the cricket at the MCG with 90,000 other people and also spending the day with Annabelle, who is, apparently, still as hot today as she was when I first met her some 10 years ago at a small house party in Melbourne, I was inclined to agree with him. I was, …read more