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  1. neville cardus

    A song for the 1878 Australians

    In which I become a bigshot music producer: This is probably the first time it's been played in over a century. Certainly it's the first time anyone's recorded it.
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    Joe Darling in colour

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    Walter Brearley in colour and slow motion

    I wonder if I could get away with using Clair de Lune in every video?
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    George Giffen in colour

    I've done some pretty things with photography and film this year. But only the discovery of the Eddie Gilbert footage gives me a greater thrill than my discovery, this week, of the only action photographs of George Giffen.
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    The ????? "Ball of the Century"

    I cannot think why this astonishing delivery has been forgotten. (Just try googling it: There's nothing. It can't have helped, of course, that observers like Harold Larwood reported it to the world as a googly.) One can only imagine how good it would look if the camera were so aligned as to give...
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    Jack Blackham in colour

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    WG Grace in colour

    Rather pleased with how it came out: Rodney
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    Cricket's oldest film

    I've just applied a motion-interpolation AI to Eadweard Muybridge's 1885/86 cricketing stills, and so rendered them for the first time as a film. These are the oldest moving images of our great game, predating The Roundhay Garden Scene by roughly two years: Rodney
  9. neville cardus

    All-rounder-heavy Test teams

    The England team in the Ashes Test of 1882 contained no fewer than six all-rounders (Barlow, Grace, Barnes, Steel, Ulyett and Studd), which explains why in both innings it had front-line batsmen at number ten. I can't think of a line-up that even approximates this. Can anyone else?
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    Cricket footage archive

    Note to mods: This is not about sharing copyrighted material. It's about preserving it. Since discovering a couple of years ago, to my unspeakable horror, that no-one else was doing this, I've been religiously recording every ball I can of every Test Match, in a bid to preserve footage that...
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    At the cricket

    At about midday today, at SuperSport Park, in the fulgent heat of a highveld summer, I happened to descry a very small, very young boy being jostled for his umbrella by three very large security guards. Apparently the offending item was emblazoned with one or two too many corporate logos. The...
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    The captaincy

    Why does it seem always to go to batsmen? The question has been asked before, but I'm asking it with a slightly different point in mind: I don't think bowlers are merely under-represented, or that a fifty-fifty split would be fairer; I think the divide should be roughly what it is now, but with...
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    Making the ball buzz

    Bradman once likened the experience of facing Bill O'Reilly to facing "a swarm of bees," but I don't know that he had in mind the effect attributed to Mailey and Turner. The latter, according to CB Fry, "made the ball spin like a humming-top; you could hear the ball buzz in the air as it...
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    Franchise cricket and Big Bash losses

    What English cricket really needs, according to virtually everyone, is to follow the wildly successful Australian model: https://www.atthematch.com/article/the-big-bash-league-model-must-be-adapted-in-england England must learn from Big Bash and introduce franchises to benefit fans, players...
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    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    It's the absolute mustard, isn't it? I live for these low-scoring thrillers, and nowhere do we get them more regularly. A mixture of spin-friendly conditions and the proactive attitude of the home side -- especially its top order. I've watched every ball I can of the last three Tests in that...
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    Women's cricket

    Enjoyed the final, but I do wish they wouldn't bring in the boundaries. There are plenty of male cricketers who haven't the strength or the knack for six-hitting, and they get on just fine. No need to patronise the women. It can be a totally different game if we let it, all about touch and...
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    Another cricketing myth

    I played a game on matting last weekend. It was fast and springy, and to that extent a poor fit for my legbreaks, so I took instead to ripping a few top-spinners. It went well, but I was slightly irritated by the praise it won me. The umpire compared my style to that of Kumble and Afridi...
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    Mpumalanga U19W v. Easterns U19W - December 12, 2016

    Mpumalanga won by 42 runs, on the back of the most remarkable innings ever recorded: Charlize Swanepoel ... run out ... 0 (10) Shania-Lee Swart ... not out ... 160 (86) Nicolien van Rensburg ... b Sekukune ... 0 (7) Jammie de Vos ... b Sekukune ... 0 (1) Yonella Vellelo ... lbw De Neysschen ...
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    Mushfiqur Rahim

    What I'd give to comb this man's attic. There's almost certainly a seedy-looking portrait up there. Can you believe he's almost thirty?
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    Over rates

    Here's a mad idea: Why don't we revive the eight-ball over? With fewer transitions or change-overs, we'd be saving a helluva lot of time in the long run.

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