my reading list
These are the books i’d like to read between now and the boxing day test. I batted really well that day, Dean Jones How a fat man took down those dirty cheating aussies, Arjuna Ranatunga Things were...
View ArticleSession update day 5 – Lunch
Lets see session update, ummmm. Silva looked good again. Boy can play, see the post I am yet to post. Rick (y) is dragging Brett Lee towards a 5 wicket haul. Its very rare he gets 8 wickets in a match,...
View Articlemove over neil, bishen is coming to town
… This is for Sime… For years Neil Harvey was the man. I’m not talking about as a batsman, although his batting was brilliant. Hence why he made my Best Aussie Eleven. His batting aside, his true value...
View ArticleNeil Harvey speaks, I fill in the blanks
Neil Harvey spoke to Nagraj Gollapudi, about love and lust for Cricinfo and Wisden. I talk shit in italics. I was seven years younger than anybody else in the 1948 Invincibles side. After each day’s...
View ArticleHayden tries ard to be a pain in the bum
“he’ll always be trying his best, that’s Matthew” Kellie Hayden (Mrs Hayden, Wife of Matthew) The first thing i noticed about this was the way she tried to humanise him, i took me 8 seconds to realise...
View Articlenesta notifies neil
Nesta Quinn of 99.94 put this in the comments the other “And a Happy belated Birthday mate and look out for me in the crowd at the ‘G on Sunday, I’ll be hard to miss wearing my homemade Cricket with...
View Articleashes fact 1
Are these the best Ashes facts ever? “No, they’re not, no, far from it. I could name plenty of other Ashes Facts that are probably better than this lot and they get carried away with the strength of...
View ArticleNeil Harvey says
“You call that a shit Australian team, you’re an idiot. All too busy tweeting your faces at each other and praising Steve Waugh to know that this isn’t even the worst Australian team in the last 40...
View ArticleAll of cricket’s days are shit: attack of the Neil Harveys
I’ve seen a lot of cricket books of recent times, they’ve been written by a host of people from a bunch of different countries, but the over riding message of them was that ‘cricket was better in my...
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