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1 week ago | 
cricketetal.com | Gideon Haigh
This is a music post, inspired by the death of David Thomas, a ‘true pioneer of the avant garde’. If you’re trawling for cricket content, feel free to pass on. ‘Hello Cleveland!’ shouts Derek Smalls as he rushes through the catacombs of a theatre in This Is Spinal Tap, ready for the first salaam of the rock’n’roll audience - which, of course, he and his fellow band members cannot find.
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1 week ago | 
cricketetal.com | Gideon Haigh
1/ The IPL is on…. 2/ …and Cricinfo is here to confirm the evidence of our own eyes, that this is the worst catching in the league for at least five years, with one in four going down. Nine chances were shelled in each of the King Off in Mullanpur, and the Royal Off in Jaipur, the latter including this absolute pratfall by Virat Kohli. Rooted to the bottom of the table, Chennai Super Kings have dropped sixteen catches in eight games.
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2 weeks ago | 
cricketetal.com | Gideon Haigh
The International Cricket Council was established, as the Imperial Cricket Conference, in 1909. Rod Lyall’s The Club is the first history of the body. This tells you something - that not even its members think much of it, and that cricket historians have tended to agree. Its peers, the International Olympic Committee, Fédération Internationale de Football Association and World Rugby, dominate their respective sports. For most of its span, the ICC has been like T. S.
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2 weeks ago | 
cricketetal.com | Gideon Haigh
‘Something about youth in the field appeals to cricket-goers above all else,’ averred Ray Robinson. Regardless of race or clime, you notice the crowd’s interest quicken when a very young player appears, the encouraging applause for his slightest success, the sympathetic murmur if he fails. All the young onlookers are his allies, and the older men re-live through his presence their own youthful ambitions.
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2 weeks ago | 
cricketetal.com | Gideon Haigh
The Mumblebone Cricket Club, some time in the 1900s, look like they’re ready for anything, from bringing in the harvest to joining a bar room fight. Except look at the reverence they accord that precious scorebook, which they’d have carried around the district of Walgett like a talisman - you can’t feel that same way about a tablet, so don’t tell me you can.
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3 weeks ago | 
cricketetal.com | Gideon Haigh
1/ The IPL is on. 2/ So is the Melbourne T10 Invitational, where I stopped in for the on Sunday. Here are the scenes of delirium after the academy of the Sydney Thunder, 5 for 91, beat the academy of the Melbourne Stars, all out 77 - under-12s scores for cricket arguably pitched at that market. Stand aside Sheffield Shield; the Blackie-Ironmonger Stand was rocking. I know, I know: it’s hardly fair to judge the format on this limited, low-skill outing.
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3 weeks ago | 
exbulletin.com | Gideon Haigh
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3 weeks ago | 
cricketetal.com | Gideon Haigh
Sir James Anderson? The shade of Arthur Mailey will be pleased. When Leonard Hutton was knighted in 1956, he is said to have mumbled that the last bowler to be knighted was Sir Francis Drake, and not for another four decades did the honour to Sir Alec Bedser provide a monument to honest English toil. The knighthoods for Wes Hall, Charlie Griffith, Andy Roberts and Curtly Ambrose in the last decade or so have further redressed the imbalance. Or did you not notice?
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3 weeks ago | 
cricketetal.com | Gideon Haigh
Pete and I have hosted hundreds of podcasts since we paired in November 2020 as Cricket Et Cetera, and relaunched last year using the name of this website after consciously uncoupling from The Australian. One of our happiest mementos of this time is The Etcetera & the et al (not cricket), a Spotify playlist lovingly curated by listener Evan Willis collecting those songs whose titles I have affixed to our episodes. It now offers more than fifteen hours of audio goodness.
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3 weeks ago | 
cricketetal.com | Gideon Haigh
,In many ways I was amazingly lucky to get to travel to Australia at the back end of 2020 to cover cricket. COVID-19 had ruined normal life but the photo agency I shot for were still keen to get me to take photographs of Test cricket wherever that was. Having an Australian passport - I was born in Canberra - I could fly from London to Brisbane to prepare for the Australia versus India Test matches. Tourists were not welcome in this period so my flights were pretty empty.
