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Four More Years

Matt — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:00:40 +0000

Last night was tough. Five kiwis in a rowdy Oxford English-laden pub standing next to a crew of Frenchmen. We didn't stick around long after full time. I think it's the first time I've ~~said~~ yelled 'fuck' in front of my girlfriend's mother. And it was the first syllable I groaned as I woke up this morning. Sorry Annette; I'm sure you understand...

More than just a game?

Guest Barista — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:49:24 +0000

There is something going on in UK sport and it has people talking. I am not talking about Tim Henman once again failing to advance through Wimbledon, or the dicey form of the English cricket team. The chatter is about the rise of Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton. For those that have not been following the motor sport racing news, Lewis Hamilton is a 22 year old from England who has debuted this season and has been on the podium at every race and currently leads the championship. He qualified fastest for the British Grand Prix – the first Brit to do so in eleven years. Oh, and he is ‘black’.

Lank

Guest Barista — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:24:18 +0000

That's what we were. Lank. We had good reason to believe that we could win the Cup, and an unofficial ranking of third represents both a creditable outcome and a fair reflection of the team’s ability. Meh.

Young Guns v Black Caps – who’d win in a fight?

Guest Barista — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:20:14 +0000

Expectations for this New Zealand cricket side have assumed proportions not reached since the glorious World Cup summer of 1992. Fond memories of sun-drenched days at Eden Park have not dimmed in the intervening years, and cricket fans don’t have to try too hard to once again summon up a mental snapshot of Harry’s sublime throw to run out Boony from side on, or the magnificent arc of another Paddy Greatbatch six.

World Cup 2007 – Mid term report

Guest Barista — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:18:24 +0000

As a 12 year old, listening to the radio commentary of New Zealand ’s tour of the West Indies , it was like cricket from another planet. There was Greenidge and Haynes, softening up the bowling in grand style, and once we got them, IVA Richards. He smouldered to the wicket, took a minute to assert his machismo, and then blasted it everywhere.

Windies 2007 – the phony phony war, and other oddities

Guest Barista — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:16:31 +0000

After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and inflicted a swift and violent defeat, Europe stood still and waited for the inevitable shift to the Third Reich’s next target, France. This shift ended up taking six months – a period known as the ‘phony war’ – while Hitler readied his forces and waited for winter to pass. This is how I was expecting to feel at this point in the Cricket World Cup, a lull with some action in isolated phases, maybe the odd raised eyebrow at a particular result. As it has turned out, we have had a dramatic group stage.

Just Like Being There

Matt — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:03:51 +0000

There are a few threads that weave in and out of my thirty-odd years, one of those being the Cricket World Cup. One of the more interesting ones for me was the 1996 series hosted by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Interesting not because of the performances or results, but the way in which I followed the games. The time difference was a bit rough and we didn't have Sky at home so I was reduced to listening to the game in bed on the wireless. I have a delicious memory of Jeremy Coney and Brian Waddle spending the best part of five overs discussing the sandwiches they'd had for lunch that day. Two of the best, no doubt.

Five go mad at the ‘G’

Guest Barista — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:14:28 +0000

As sporting arenas go, the Melbourne Cricket Ground must rank as one of the most imposing. Three- and four- tiered stands sweep around the massive emerald outfield. The Great Southern Stand alone holds 50,000 people, slightly over half of the total capacity. Bay 13 is perhaps the most notorious seating area in world cricket, a springboard for alcohol-fuelled barracking of a most Australian order. And it's 150-year history has witnessed some of the biggest cricketing moments - dozens of Boxing Day tests, the underarm in 1981, Muralitharan no-balled by Hair in 1995, Warne's 1994 Ashes hat-trick and Hadlee's desperate attempt to remove the final Australian pair in 1987.

Shane Warne – Knob

Guest Barista — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:12:33 +0000

Darwin, 1990. Three young girls are sunbathing beside a pool at a university college, where a cricket team from the Australian Institute of Sport are also staying. A young cricketer yells something from an upstairs room, then drops his pants and sticks his buttocks out of the window. Shortly afterwards, another man comes downstairs clad only in a dressing gown, opens it wide and says “hey girls, how’d you like to suck on this?”