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Dennis Lillee: the aluminium bat and the extraordinary adulation

4 days ago | cricketetal.com | Peter Lalor

Watching Ronald Barassi brush past the expensive seats filled with important AFL types on his way to an economy seat at the back of a plane filled with people excitedly whispering about the greatness among them, someone remarked that the only person who doesn’t know who Ron Barassi is, is Ron Barassi. The late AFL legend wasn’t oblivious to the impact he had on ordinarypeople, but did his best to dissuade them of any notion that he was separate.
A Million Boundaries Now: 14-year-old hits incredible IPL century ... and there's more where that came from

1 week ago | cricketetal.com | Peter Lalor

“Change is present everywhere, India was now a country of million mutinies. A million mutinies, supported by twenty kinds of group excess, sectarian excess, religious excess, regional excess: the beginnings of self-awareness, it would seem the beginnings of an intellectual life, already negated by old anarchy and disorder. But there was in India now what didn't exist 200 years before: a central will, a central intellect, a national idea. ....
"Hello Cleveland"

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.
10 Things # 37

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.
A Hopeless Case

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.
New Kid on the Blockhole

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.
Shit brick fences, sad meals and a fond farewell to our beloved Francis

2 weeks ago | cricketetal.com | Peter Lalor

Francis’s last days are ignominious to say the least. An old man, stripped down to his sagging Y-fronts, motionless and listless in the backyard; when it rained earlier this week, he sought no shelter. Homeless, he has abandoned himself to the elements. He’s acquired a mouldy, dank smell that gets quite ripe on a warmer day. It can’t be long before they carry him away – like the bloke in the George Jones song. (Just quietly, one of the great pieces of country songcraft and often voted so.
An Ocean of XIs

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.
10 Things # 36

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.
Arise Sir James

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?