Brett Lee 5-5
Category: Australia,Home Page,West Indies, Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by admin | No CommentsImage via Wikipedia Second Test, Antigua (close day four) West Indies vs Australia Australian fast bowler Brett Lee tore the West Indies batting line up apart, taking 5 wickets for five runs off 18 balls. Lee was helped by some very questionable umpiring decisions, but the damage was done. The West Indies were dismissed for [...]
Tearful Ton
Category: Australia,Home Page, Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by admin | No CommentsMichael Clarke’s ton in the second Test in the West Indies was for his fiancee, Lara Bingle, after the loss of her father. A tearful Clarke looked to the heavens and dedicated his century to Graham Bingle, who died three weeks ago. With the Second Test in the balance , Australia declared at 7-479, as [...]
Hayden vows to stay
Category: Australia,Home Page,West Indies, Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by admin | No CommentsMathew Hayden vows to be fit enough to return to all forms of cricket. Stating on his arrival ” I am here to play for as long as I can” Returning to Brisbane after being ruled out of the West Indies tour and will be seeing a specialist in Melbourne to assess the damage to [...]
Shane – No Shame Now
Category: Home Page,Rajasthan Royals,Shane Warne, Posted on May 26th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsIt would seem that the bad boy of cricket, Shane Warne, has at last settled down. Everyone remembers his infamous exploits of a few years back when he was either sending lewd text messages, having sex on the bonnet of a car or helping out bookmakers , not to mention his mum’s tablets. These exploits [...]
Past Greats
Category: Home Page,IPL - Twenty20,Shane Warne, Posted on May 5th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsI wonder what past greats such as Dennis Lillie, Merv Hughes and Jeff Thomson would think about IPL Twenty20 cricket. Imagine what they would think about the huge payments the likes of Shane Warne and Andrew Symonds are receiving for 16 weeks !! If they were still playing now they would only be just catching [...]
Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Kings XI Punjab
Category: Home Page,IPL - Twenty20,Kings XI Punjab,Kolkata Knight Riders, Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsThe 22nd. Match of the IPL cricket tournament was a one sided event as Punjab went on to win their forth consecutive win of the series. At the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, kolkata were left with a chase of 179runs and after falling to 50 – 5 in the 10th over it was always going [...]
IPL TV Coverage in Australia.
Category: Australia,Home Page,IPL - Twenty20, Posted on May 4th, 2008 by admin | No CommentsThere has been a lot of discussion in Australia about the TV coverage of IPL cricket, the time of the coverage, the commentators and no real description of the rules. Why not get channel 10 to put on highlights of the previous nights cricket on at say 6pm. I think that the cricket is very [...]