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  1. neville cardus

    White Ferns v Pakistan Women

    Free (and legal) to view here, courtesy of New Zealand Cricket: https://livestream.com/WHITEFERNS/events/6581541
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    Live Sheffield Shield coverage - video and commentary

    I know that not all of you are as tragic as me, but I do think this deserves a shout-out: Live & Official Cricket Scores | cricket.com.au Especially since it's absolutely free.
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    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Legbyes. Why do we reward the batsman for missing the ball, and punish the bowler (or more accurately his team) for having bowled a ball which the batsman has missed? Marking one's guard. Why's this necessary? It takes forever (especially when I'm batting), and on some surfaces can be bloody...
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    Innovation

    I posted the following in a ten-minute burst on another forum a month and a fortnight ago, after England smashed the record for the highest-ever ODI total:
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    Knitting

    Anyone have any pointers on this dark art? I've never attempted it before, but I'm looking to create an MCC-coloured beanie* for a festival match I'll be playing next weekend. I'm going as WG. Additionally, I'd welcome any and all advice on getting into character. I've mastered the stance, and...
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    Another Mankading

    I seem to be the only one in my circle of friends who's following the Under-19 World Cup, but in retrospect I'd rather have watched something else today. It'll take some gargling to lave the sour taste from my mouth. About ten minutes ago, with three runs needed off the final over, Zimbabwe had...
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    Throwing the cricket ball

    Old news now, but new to me, and apparently it hasn't yet been mentioned here: Roald Bradstock, the veteran Olympian, has broken Robert Percival's disputed century-old record: On November 9, 2010 at the ripe old age of 48, I attempted to break the most unbreakable of records for a fifth and...
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    Shudder

    Leafing idly this morning through David Hopps's anthology of cricketing quotations, I lit upon the following: "Remember, with those speedsters bowling at 95mph, cricket can kill!" Australian TV advert for Packer Circus, 1975. "I want to hit you Bailey. I want to hit you over the heart." Peter...
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    From ball boy to whipping boy

    I don't know if anyone's watching this, or if anyone cares, but I'm smarting vicariously at the injustice of it all: https://vine.co/v/OqVIDvXux0l That kid was treated shabbily. Russell may project and gesticulate all he likes, but the fact is that his was a poor effort. The ball was...
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    Umpires, old and young

    Anyone know who was the youngest man to officiate in a Test Match? And the oldest? I would dearly like to, but my Google machine won't help.
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    Cardus, Thomson and Gaukrodger

    "I regarded him (or rather his name—which amounted to the same thing) with open derision. 'Gaukrodger!' I would murmur. And to this present time I have remained unshaken in the view that 'Gaukrodger' was a heathenish name for a cricketer; I am glad he never played for England." -- "The Essential...
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    Scyld Berry

    Nothing, not even diarrhoea, wretches my guts like historical ignorance. On Cricinfo today, I find Scyld Berry impugning the integrity of Neville Cardus: Cardus was the assistant professional coach at Shrewsbury school before the First World War. The number one coach was Walter [sic] Attewell...
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    A Confession?

    "We too are glad to be doctors, one up and coming, the other here and going. We have had our doubts: one of us seriously considered a career on the stage, the other as a historian [...]. These remain our hobbies, unlike the famous cricketer, WG Grace, who took 10 years to qualify as a doctor...
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    The Perdurable Mr Tendulkar

    According to a garbled panegyric in The Australian by Mike Coward earlier this year, "[Sunil] Gavaskar believes it is within Tendulkar's reach to play until the 2111 [my incredulous italics] World Cup if his body can remain as strong as his will to succeed and break more records."...
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    "Some Cricket Yarns" by Alfred Gibson

    If we Englishmen were not quite so cold-blooded and so calculating we should have gone into hysterics by this time over the prospect of Stoddart's second team for Australia. Remember the unparalleled wave of enthusiasm that floated over England directly it became known on the last occasion that...
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    The 1882 Test Match

    Allan Steel was always quick to defend Charlie Studd against the many claims of nervousness made about his performance in the 1882 Test Match. Twenty years later, for example, in The Badminton Magazine, he went quite out of his way. "Now, as to one point," wrote his interviewer, "Mr. Steel...
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    A Superstitious W.G.

    What follows, excerpted from Charles Igglesden's 1932 tome Those Superstitions, came as a shock to me. I had always thought of Grace as a genial, happy-go-lucky old codger, certainly not the sort to fret irrationally about silly personal observances. Apparently, though, and to my hysterical...
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    A word on Tom Emmett

    It is unlikely that even a game so renowned for its characters as cricket has ever known one quite like Tom Emmett. There was never a situation for which he did not have a funny remark and scarcely a day that he did not live to the fullest. From career's beginning to career's end, he put every...
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    W.G. versus The Don

    Annoyed at CricketWeb's dearth of historical threads at the moment, I proffer this rather corny one.
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    "Arthur Shrewsbury in Private Life" by Dick Lilley

    "Arthur Shrewsbury in private life was a man of many distinct peculiarities. He was naturally of a serious disposition, and did not enter into the usual sociabilities of life. He was fond of sitting down and talking cricket shop, but at the conclusion of the day's play he was never to be found...

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