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Xavier Marshall : Where did he come from?

Ankit — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:46:26 +0000

This guy can thwack the ball real hard. Being really really short and stubborn, this guy charges a full speed Brett Lee delivery and makes contact on a regular basis. It still is early days for him, but what I see is good, as he read the slower ball too.

Some hope for West Indies Cricket, apart from Chrab of course.

Talking about chrab, his leadership skills have been praised by many, and his batting, well, he has averaged about 75 over the past two seasons in test cricket, the entire dough is more cleverly pointed out by my friend here.

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Xavier Marshall : Where did he come from?

Bridgetown Weather

Ankit — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:53:06 +0000

When I feel that a test match could become interesting, I normally keep a tab on all the factors affecting the match. Weather is one of the most important factors affecting a match.

I Bring to you : Georgetown Weather. Everyone stand up and clap

A tropical wave is affecting the island.

Generally cloudy to overcast with showers and isolated thunderstorms at first, becoming mostly fair by late afternoon. Tonight: Mainly fair.
In-depth weather discussion

Waiting for Day 2

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Bridgetown Weather

West Indies vs Australia : 3rd Test : Session 2 & 3

Ankit — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:56:30 +0000

I am so feeling I told you so right now. But not quite. 300 is still gettable. The Aussies reached 226/7 at the end of day 1. It could have been more, but it rained, and then it rained again. Symonds played his restrained-affluent best ad scored 67.

Beau Casson is in! This has been the happiest day in my blogging career. I finally got to see Beau on TV. After all the hype and the like, he appeared to be calm and collected. He batted much better then Stuey for sure. The bowling remains to be seen. I so hope the rain stays away. This one is going to be a nice match, with Australia winning of course.

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West Indies vs Australia : 3rd Test : Session 2 & 3

West Indies vs Australia – a lazy update

Ankit — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:35:42 +0000

There is something about the cricket in the Caribbean, you don’t know whether its happening or not. Some people say that the World Cup is still on there with fat dudes playing and talking diving catches at first slip.

Here are a few stories coming from the land where the world cup is always on:

Brett Lee is tired: He doesn’t say it, but Punter does
Kamran Dropmal has a mate : Brad Haddin is feeling the heat, though I dunno how you do that against the current West Indies team.
Gayle is Back : Being a Knight Rider was never so cool; after all, loyalty is loyalty
GAYLE is the Skipper! AS IF!
Joel Garner has described the fast bowlers as “lazy”, but Gayle said they had done a “terrific job” so far. “Everybody has been playing their part,” he said, “it’s just that our batting has let us down a bit.”.
I so fishin don’t think so!
Someone’s Beau has been selected, Casson, they say.
Third Test begins today (in India, its past midnight, so don’t go by the b5 clock here)
West Indies have HOPES of leveling the series. Go play Stanford, MAAN!

A funny name for you guys : Sewnarine Chattergoon. Google him.

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West Indies vs Australia – a lazy update

Australia beat West Indies

Ankit — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:32:32 +0000

West Indies v Australia, 1st Test, Jamaica, 5th day

It was a fighting match. Just that the West Indies were fighting as soon as Ponting made 150 on the first day. In the end, needing 240 odd to win on the last day, they succumbed to the accuracy of Stuart Clark, Brett Lee and Stuart McGill and ended the innings at 191, 96 runs short.

Clark returned with a five-for. Mc Grath II seems to be learning fast. From the West Indies, Ramdin the little keeper showed sparks of guts with his 36 of 61 balls, but when he was out, the fat lady had already cleared her throat.

Test Cricket was the winner, though. Australia showed again that perseverance and accuracy pays all the time. All in all, a nice beginning to a really boring tour. LARA COME BACK!

Photo : Newscom

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Australia beat West Indies

T20 Format: Lesser Sides’ Feast?

Dinsa Sachan — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:36:05 +0000

Eat Cricket, Drink Cricket, Sleep Cricket

After India’s T20 championship victory, Andrew Symonds said something along the lines of T20 being a format where “the lesser sides can beat you easily”. Of course, Australia lost to Zimbabwe and then India, the two lesser sides he was referring to.

India has since kept Australia on toes in T20, and they seem to be innately made for this version.

Further, SA just lost to Windies in a T20 tie, and it wasn’t a close match by any means.

Could there be any truth to what Roy said?

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T20 Format: Lesser Sides’ Feast?

Lara to totally bugger his career

SixandOut — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:51:48 +0000

Brian Lara has announced that he is to come out of retirement to join the Indian Cricket League, the league that has “broken away” from International cricket, and is not recognised by the ICC. Lara, who announced his retirement from all forms of the game after the dismal World Cup, will certainly be one of the ICL’s biggest scalps, but questions must be raised over his motivation. Is it that he misses the game – or is he in it for the money?

Either way, it feels like the final nail in the coffin for a man whose career sadly slipped in to almost farce in recent years, as he fell out of form, was WI captain, wasn’t captain, was captain, wasn’t captain and… when he finally left he did so with a modicum of dignity.

Sure, he will always be remembered as one of, if not the, greatest batsmen of all times, which further begs the question why he is risking it all to join something which can only turn out at best another Kerry Packer World Series Cricket, or at worst rebel tour of South Africa.

It doesn’t make much sense to me.

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Englindies / Westingland

SixandOut — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:43:48 +0000

Two Twenty20’s and two one day Internationals down and… scores are level. England and the West Indies are so evenly matched that there’s very little to separate them. And that’s not saying we’ve had four tense and exciting games – quite the opposite, in fact. Rather, we’ve been treated to four very one sided affairs, where one side showed the type of talent of which you would expect of a top side, whilst the other under-performed hideously. In fact, it is this ‘talent’ that ties to the sides so closely together, that is, the talent of inconsistency.

It’s all a bit boring really and that’s really sad.

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Englindies / Westingland

Collingwood: one day captain

SixandOut — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:59:59 +0000

After Vaughan quit as captain of the one day side, all eyes were on who would be named as captain. Speculation was spot on as it was eventually given to Paul Collingwood. Irony abounds, considering that Collingwood was the most-oft picked player for the chop during England’s recent “down-time”. Fortunately, the crazy men have seen sense and realised that Vaughan can’t play one day cricket and it was time for a change. In fact, Vaughan wasn’t the only one for the chop, as Strauss similarly got the arse.

Whether or not the twin-captain set up will be effective is still up in the air, but there is yet a vagary in the selection of Collingwood. He’ll currently be preparing for the first of England’s Twenty20 encounters with West Indies. It’ll be his first game in charge of England, as a recognised one day expert. With the exception being that Collingwood has only ever played THREE Twenty20’s and astoundingly, all three have been for England. He has exactly zero experience playing domestic one day Twenty20, a format of the game that has been around for some 5 seasons.

This is easily explained by his regular inclusion in the England set up, so has not had the chance to get the experience. But considering that Twenty20 is such a specialised format, vastly different to even 50 over cricket, will he be the man to lead England?

Or maybe we should have a three captain set up, one for each format of the game?

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Collingwood: one day captain

KP: Not finished article

SixandOut — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:46:03 +0000

I didn’t know if it needed saying again – Kevin Pietersen is not yet the finished article. Sure, he might be rated the best batsmen in the world, sure, he might be feared, and sure, he did have a pretty good test series against the West Indies, but he is still not yet the type of player of which he is capable of becoming. Graham Gooch gave KP a verbal blowjob in naming him at the top of England’s series rankings, saying:

He is learning to add composure and innings management to his undoubted stroke-making skills and his double century was possibly the highlight of the series

Well Graham, you might be right, but the obvious question is: Was that horrific attempted wipe at the last ball of the day at Durham *really* adding composure and innings management to his skills? I think not. Considering the opposition, none of KP’s innings were particularly groundbreaking as they all came in situations where there was little or no pressure. I would undoubtedly have place Monty, Matt Prior and Paul Collingwood ahead of KP in these rankings.

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