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Ooh ahh Glenn McGrath!
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Miserable, er hrm... brilliant success
Wow. England take their winning streak to three and lead the Commonwealth Bank Finals Series 1-0. Can they make it four on Sunday?
The Guardian's OBO of the first final:
Australian innings;
England innings.
Man of the match: Ian Healy.
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Sponsorship update: Cricket Australia 1 Queensland Cricket 0
So who's a pretty bully boy then?
While Cricket Australia was crying foul over the world cup organisers' objection to their choice of sponsor, they had the boot on the other foot getting stuck into Queensland Cricket over a very similar issue.
It's just as well no airline sponsors the World Cup
Cricket Australia has responded within hours after losing their appeal to the ICC disputes committee (see my earlier posting today).
Emirates, the UAE-based airline best known in Australia for sponsoring Collingwood Football Club, will be the official team sponsor for the Australian team for the world cup in the Caribbean in March and April. Emirates, of course, is also the naming rights sponsor of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel and is the "official airline" of the Dubai-based ICC.
Sponsorship update: ICC 1 Cricket Australia 0
Travelex (Thomas Cook in a past life) has been the naming rights sponsor for Australian touring teams overseas since 2001, even to the point of the "Ashes Tour" officially becoming the "Travelex Tour of the UK and Ireland".
But with less than five weeks till the start of the one-day world championships in the Caribbean, Cricket Australia's arrangements with Travelex have been blocked under ICC ambush marketing rules, and confirmed yesterday by its Disputes Resolution Committee.
It's a hard life being a Prime Minister
John Howard, the self-styled "cricket tragic" who takes seems blissfully unaware of either one-day cricket or Twenty20, made a cameo appearance at Maroubra Beach this morning to toss the bat prior to the Australia v England Beach Cricket international. England won.
CARIBBEAN: Special Cricket Visa Irks Tourism Industry
CARIBBEAN: Special Cricket Visa Irks Tourism Industry
- PORT OF SPAIN, Jan 29 (IPS) - It's billed as the third biggest sporting event in the world after the football World Cup and the Olympics.
[Inter Press Service]
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Sledging by Google
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An ODI just like the good old days
New Zealand all out 218 in 47.4 overs.
Australia 224/8 in 48.4 overs.
Almost an identical scenario to all those games in the B and H World Series Cup back in the early 1980s. One team gets around 215-220 runs in the first innings and the team batting second just gets over the line with a handful of balls to spare. Usually accompanied by Bill Lawry wetting himself.
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Bob Woolmer interview on BBC World Service
Just finished listening to an interesting half-hour interview with Bob Woolmer on the BBC World Service. It's available online until next Saturday (the 27th).
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