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cricket loses a brother

I was up late last night writing about cricket tactics for TWC.

I was immersed in the article.

There was at least 15 drafts, and i hated everyone of them.

During that time I didn’t realise that a little piece of cricket was dying.

I was so wrapped up in my shit I didn’t even check the cricket sites.

While I was working Sri Lanka players were attacked by terrorists.

Our brother Pakistan may never recover from this.

A terrorist attack on players was the worst possible thing that could happen to cricket.

It was the nightmare scenario, crickets real loss of innocence.

We know our sport is in the firing line more than most others, but now it has been fired on.

It didn’t matter if the players were wounded or not, Samaraweera received a bullet in the thigh, all that mattered is that touring players are no longer safe in Pakistan.

And cricket cannot be played there.

Imran Khan said that terrorists would not attack cricketers as they would lose the support of the people, i said it only takes one terrorist stupid enough to forget that and cricketers will be attacked.

I have never wished I was wrong more.

I fucken love Pakistan, and one of my dreams was to travel there and cover a Pakistani series.

My dream is now lodged in Samaraweera’s thigh.

Pakistan can play on as a nomad team, but they will fade away doing this, they are a passionate team, and cannot survive a wandering life.

King Kumar, ever the eloquent man, had this to say “I don’t regret coming here to play cricket because that’s what we have been doing all our lives. That is our profession.”

I love the sentiment, but the ICC can’t afford to let a tour happen there again.

Not for a very long time.

Our brother is ill, and may never recover.

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Pakistan V Sri Lanka in depth test match analysis

King Kumar made a hundred.

Pitch is Keira Knightley.


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Mendis mystery sauce special

I aw one hour and 15 minutes of cricket yesterday.

Most of that was Anderson and Harmison wasting conditions.

Amla sparkled, never thought I’d write that in a sentence, and the rain finished it all.

If however I had only been one continent away, I would have seen the King a proper test hundred to drag his team mates into some sort of test winning position.

Anyone who has seen the India v Sri Lanka series should be thanking whomever it is they thank in moments like this.

Sehwag preaching sehwagology all over the place.

Murali as usual.

Bhaji doing less commando rolls, taking more wickets.

Mendis and his mystery nuts.

And now the King ruling the roost when it counts.

This is a proper series of test match cricket.

Ofcourse no one outside of Zee TV subscribers can look at it.

Not sure how many non subbies have Zee.

12, 13 people maybe.

Tony Greig probably.

This could all be averted by me purchasing Zee, or similar next time.

Next time could be 3 years away.

By then…

Kumar will have become an astronaut and started fighting aliens on a far off planet.

Sehwag would have been burned as a heretic.

Murali would get tennis elbow.

Bhaji would have his own chat show.

And Mendis will be serving mystery sauce at his local burger joint.

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CWB has a nap while King Kumar takes Asia

Yes Cricket with balls has been hard to get a hold of for the last few days.

I know your pain.

Over the last week or so Kumar has bent the Asia Cup over and shown it who’s boss.

But I haven’t been able to see a minute of it.

Even the news coverage has overlooked Kumar.

People want to talk about Raina proving Greg right.

Sanath the pirate swashbuckling all over the place.

Geoff Lawson giving the poor press a hard time.

And Shoaib Malik not even turning up to give the press a hard time.

But the King just keeps on stacking up the three figures.

Before he and Murali took the Caribbean tour as a holiday he was the man in world cricket.

Apparently he is back in form.

Missing Kumar in this form is like missing two people you really want to see having sex for months on end.

So I know how you feel, missing the balls.

I’m not comparing myself to King Kumar, that is for others to do.

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Probots are taking over y’all

Dale Steyn is now rated the best bowler in the world according to statisticians.

Not mathematicians, that’s an important distinction.

But as interesting as that is, the more interesting thing is the player who is rated 100th in the world in bowling.

Ricky Ponting.

You may have heard of him, used to be bald, used to get into bar fights, used to be Tasmanian.

Apparently 5 wickets in a 116 tests means you qualify as the 100th best bowler in the world at the moment.

Over on the batting side of things King Kumar has been dethroned after an unsuccessful attack on the west indies.

He must have a twin brother because there is no way this is the same man who demolished Australia in Hobart.

So the new world number 1 batsman is King Probot Michael Hussey.

Number 2, Jacques Kallis.

I told you they were taking over.

The 100th best batsmen in the world is Ashwell Prince.

That’s not on the ICC list, just from my experience.

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how i sees em

Some of you may notice I see cricket differently.

You guys see a leg spinner, I see an absurdist.

You see a test nation, I see an ex lover.

You see Shaun Pollock play cricket, I pretend he never played.

You see Jacques Kallis, I see a dud root.

So when I look at international batsmen this is what I see.

Michael Clarke – a teenage boy who is eagerly trying to please his mates hot mum. The more Cleavage she gives, the more excited he gets.

Sanath Jayasuriya – slices the ball like some Genghis Khan wannabe.

Virender Sehwag – bats like a dude who will fu©k anything. Doesn’t matter if he hits or misses, just likes to get laid a lot.

Adam Gilchrist – swings the bat like a junkie swatting away imaginary monkeys.

Kumar Sangakarra – has the presence of Lee Marvin whilst holding a bat, and almost as funny as Lee whilst using the gloves.

Matty Hayden – bats like a 14 year old kid beating the sh1t out of a 10 year old kid.

Graeme Smith – tries to bat like a 14 year old kid beating the sh1t out of a 10 year old kid.

Kevin Pietersen – is a lot like Robbie Williams, wishes he could make it big in America, must learn to be content with the fact he gets laid a lot regardless of America.

Michael Hussey – is a robot sent from the future to destroy us.

Jacques Kallis – has the rare ability to suck the fun out of cricket to such a degree, you wonder how hard it would be to use a sniper rifle.

Shahid Afridi – bats like an ice addict who has just gunned down two cops and knows they’re gonna find him soon.

Runako Morton – is something of a Howard Hughes batsman.

Sachin Tendulkar – bats like a kid with a bat 4 times too heavy, 3 times too long, and yet has found a way to use it.

Shivnarine Chandrepaul – stands at the crease like a kid from Chernobyl, bats like a kid from Harvard Law school.

Stephen Fleming – always seems to have a good book in the change room.

Michael Vaughn – Used to be a batsmen.

Ian Bell – is a carpenter with all the tools, and very little knowledge of when and where to use them.

Ross Taylor – is like a really hot chick, who knows she is really hot, and therefore not that hot.

Chris Gayle – a drunken Canadian woodchopper.

Mohammad Ashraful – is William Shatner in Star Trek, flashes of brilliance, but it will be a long time before he gets to Boston Legal.

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Kerry would be disheartened

A lot of media sources, ex cricketers and annoying taxi drivers have been telling me this is going to be a great one day series.

The world cup finalists and the 2020 title holders together in an orgy of exciting cricket, what could be better.

So far this has not happened.

First it was rain, which sucks.

Then Sri Lanka let Dhoni and Gambir use and abuse them like Mail order brides.

And then the Lankans fell apart against the Aussies.

What is wrong with Sri Lanka, terrorists and Arjuna Ranatunga aside.

They have what could be a very good cricket team.

Good opening pair, sure one of them is 84 years old, but its still an explosive base.

Best (or second best) number 3 in the world, a man who like Ponting does not hide himself at number 4 like a bunch of other pansies do.

Jayawardene is one hell of a batsmen, his captaining is taken from a manual titled ‘Better captaining through positive thinking”, but he can still get the job done.

Silva and Dilshan are pretty hand middle order players as well.

They have 3 world class bowlers, even if one is passed his best.

So what is their problem?

Sure they have only lost one game, but who am I wait until all the evidence is in, I want to label them horrible now.

This is the last tri series in Australia, we can’t have it ballsed up by a team that makes the world cup final one day, and loses to England at home the next.

Lets all hope the King brings them back to life.

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The PM Vs. The King

The K-Rudd XI played a match against the Sri Lankans today at that place that isn’t quite Melbourne and isn’t quite Sydney, but has porn and fireworks.

Lets get the important bits out of the way first, the king kumar failed, got a very pretty nut from Hilfenhaus.

Now the game.

Cameron White was given the role of winning the toss and batting on a green top, and the cream of Australia’s one day crop folded like a foldable object.

The ended up at 152 all out.

A lot of ugly shots.

Noffke top scored with 30, so for him it was just like another game for Queensland.

Future PM David Hussey, SOS Marsh and the kiwi Ronchi all made dashing 20 odd’s, but the rest of their team mates couldn’t even provide that.

Malinga got 3 important wickets, those of the two Victorians and Animatrix Noffke.

The Lankans got to the score 6 wickets down, proving the pitch wasn’t a belter.

Dilshan and Sanath made the majority of the runs. If it wasn’t for Dilshan’s not out the Lankans may have lost, with everyone else going out without much of whimper.

Hilfenhaus and Noffke both impressed in their bowl off for Taits spot, and Cameron White did something we all assumed he had taken a solemn vow never to do again, he took wickets.

Perhaps Manuka oval is the only ground left in Australia that favours bowlers, no wonder it never gets minnow tests there.

Sime was heard to remark after the game, that under John Howard the PM’s XI were much stoic, dignified and conservitive.

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clown make up and 50 odd overs

Being that I am now homeless, I get to stay at all my friends and families house.

Of course I am picky bastard, I only pick the ones that have pay TV.

Tonight that allowed me to watch the first day of the Sri Lanka England test.

How wonderful that was.

I got to see Monty doing his best Sgt Kabukiman impersonation, memo to all cricketers, white face paint is stupid, memo to all dark cricketers, white face paint applied badly looks like geisha make up.

England stated off with a couple of good balls from the 1977 gay porn star side bottom. Then he and the inverted Harmison took some dodgy decisions, but no one really cared, because everyone wanted to see Kumar and Mahela anyway.

Kumar and Mahela decided that runs are over rated. It’s a rare thing for batsmen to start playing for the light 8 minutes after lunch, but they managed to do so.

Mahela’s positive speech before the game really took effect as he and Kumar piled on the maidens with style. One nil is enough after all.

After the game went along, and along and along, Kumar hit a yawn up in the air off Harmison straight to Monty Kabukiman. After he took the catch, he ran in like he found the meaning of life in the outfield.

Perhaps the secret to life is white zinc, its worth looking into to.

At that stage the English turned, just for a moment they looked like they actually wanted to win the game, and with the runrate going backwards and Harmison bowling some spiking deliveries, a promising test looked likely.

Then it was stumps, after a massive 50 odd overs had been bowled.

For the first time in history the batting team were offered their sh1thouse run rate as a reason to go off. They took it.

50 odd overs, I sh1t you not.

If that was made common place, Shane Bond and Shoaib Ahktar could have great careers.

It all felt a little unsatisfying, although we did slip off to the nets at one stage for an hour to have a hit ourselves.

I bowled pretty quick at times, and my off spinners had Sime in trouble. Sime bowled really well and I spooned a bunch of balls towards imaginary cover fieldsman.

We seemed to only miss 20 odd runs.

Test cricket at its $exiest.

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hoggard and kumar decide the next test

England actually put up a good fight, not good enough, but good.

But there were many factors in this game that propelled Sri Lanka above their station.

Sanath’s last stand, the man will only retire once, well surely only once in this series.

Murali’s record, he can’t beat Warne again, not unless is in the category of most women hit on in a three test series.

And Vaas is only going to play his 100th test once, i’d assume.

So it can only get better for England, can’t it?

Well all except for the King and the working class Hoggard.

Kumar looks even more unstoppable now than he did in Hobart.

England’s best chance of getting him out now seems to lie with Rudi Koertzen being flown in to umpire the next test.

And Hoggard not playing in the next test is like going to Maccas and buying a fresh and healthy option, its still McDonalds, but it just don’t feel right.

The first test ended up being a pretty damn good affair, if England can cover Hoggard and somehow get Kumar out, we might have a really interesting test series on our hands.

Remember those?

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