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It’s official: Kenya are world’s most successful ODI side. And no, this is not a joke. Their success rate so far in 2007 has been 77%, better than Australia’s 73 something.
They played 17 ODIs in all and won 13. Only two matches were against Test-playing nations–England and New Zealand–which they lost, of course.
Ohkay, busted. Some kidding there, but I thought this discovery by folks at Caught Behind needed some word-of-blog spreading.
Anyway, just in case you don’t already know this:

Prologue: YouTube and I aren’t the best of friends. I have had to delete a post chock full of my latest video findings because it messed up the sidebar. I’ll get down to fix the problem (which probably lies in me).
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In the meanwhile, what do you make of this? Look, I have said this before and will say it again: We need some seniors to keep the young guys in check! Er, okay, I am just kidding. We can allow them some fun.

Don’t get me wrong. I am not too happy with how the series has turned out. But as they say, a win is a win is a win is a….
Soon after Karthik hit the winning four, he was questioned by one of the commentators, “It was pretty tight when you walked in. But it looked like you batted very coolly. How’d you do it?”
He was like, “Nothing much. We exchanged jokes after overs and kept perking each other up.”

A writer friend congratulated me on my blog:
Wow. A cricket blog. That seems rather limiting. How much can you say about the little chirping bugs?
{egads}

West Indies have finished Day 2 of the number 2 test match of this England West Indies series on, wait for it…
“chu for twenny-chu”. Marvellous effort.
Here for a head’s up.

Not because the side necessarily needs him, but because he’s getting fat:

(from Test Match Special’s Flickr…)

Federal Court Ruling from the Melbourne Age, Australia (AP)
A seven year old boy was at the centre of a courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with the child custody law and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the degree possible. The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When …read more

Billy was at school this morning and the teacher asked all the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came out, fireman, policeman, salesman, chippy, captain of industry etc, but Billy was being uncharacteristically quiet and so the teacher asked him about his father.
“My father is an exotic dancer in a gay club and takes off all his clothes in front of other men. Sometimes if the offer is really good, he’ll go out with a man, rent a cheap hotel room and let them sleep with him.”
The teacher quickly set the other …read more