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'When you leave cricket, you will realise what you have done': …
Dec 13, 2024 · I ndia's win in the 2021 Gabba Test against Australia, played in the middle of a Covid lockdown, will forever be counted among the greatest Test matches. Here's the story of the match in the words of some who played and were present in the dressing rooms. Vikram Rathour, India assistant coach: In Sydney [third Test] people were allowed to go out and have meals and walk around, but suddenly [in ...
The scoop, as played by kids in streets all over south Asia
Dec 9, 2024 · Faridabad. March 7, 2002 "Very much a shovel, more than anything else. Can't call it a paddle sweep," Sanjay Manjrekar says on commentary. He hadn't seen the like before, even if people who watched the Perth ODI between Australia and Zimbabwe on February 4, 2001, had. Dougie Marillier has just stepped across his stumps, placed his bat low and under the attempted yorker from Zaheer Khan, and ...
Dispatches from the field
Oct 5, 2024 · Sometimes, though, the cause of the injury is... yourself. Zahid Malik, a reporter for Pakistani newspaper Daily Khabrain, had a particularly torrid time of it during a tour of New Zealand in 2003.According to the New Zealand Herald, "Malik made an ignominious beginning to his tour when he flew to Christchurch rather than Wellington for the Boxing Day test.
Brian Lara: 'I understood when I was in a 50-50 battle and
Jul 9, 2024 · F irst up, a personal one, since I spent so much time playing it in the late 1990s… do you remember being involved in Brian Lara Cricket and were you aware of how big an impact it had at the time? I used to get the numbers and I think it was doing pretty well among sports games on PlayStation. My involvement was: every year they would launch something new and I'd get beaten by some young kid ...
1960s: 1960-69 Calendar Decade Statistics
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'Thommo - how quick was he?' - Cricinfo
Oct 5, 2017 · Ross Edwards: We had an idea about how fast he was, and this was spelt out when we played New South Wales in Sydney the week before. They had just played Queensland and at the end of our game, while we were sitting around having a drink somebody asked Alan Turner, one of their openers, 'Thommo - how quick was he?'
Heinrich Klaasen: 'The moment my bat swing is good, I know
Jun 3, 2024 · H einrich Klaasen has been in phenomenal T20 form since the start of 2023, hitting innumerable sixes and striking at over 180. AB de Villiers ranks him as the best player of spin in the format currently. How does Klaasen do what he does the best? During the IPL, where he played for Sunrisers Hyderabad, Klaasen spoke to us in depth about his power-hitting, working out his bat swing, and his ...
England - Test Career Highest Batting Averages - Cricinfo
England. Test Career Highest Batting Averages. Based on all matches up to and including Test # 1841: England v India at Nottingham, 2nd Test, 27/07/2007
Fast times with Jeff Thomson - Cricinfo
Apr 26, 2020 · T he ball from Jeff Thomson that hit me in the nuts was a full toss. I did not pick up the one from Gladstone Small that broke my cheekbone. Sylvester Clarke bust my right index finger with a good-length delivery that spat at my hand like fat from a frying pan.