Australia 434 for 4 lost to South Africa 438 for 9.
Having not followed the game last night, I awoke with horror at the scoreline on the 7am news on the radio. As Tourism Australia would say, "bloody hell".
The Marylebone Cricket Club has announced on Thursday the dates and venues for the Ashes tour of Australia in 2006-07:
A latent cricket fan, or an ignoramus about Indian culture (and, indeed, of non-American cinema)? You be the judge.
From the transcript of Bush 43's round table interview with Indian journalists in the White House last Wednesday:
Q Between a cricket match and a Bollywood movie, what would a --
THE PRESIDENT: Cricket match and a --
For one reason or another, this is the first chance I have had to write up my thoughts on the VB Series finals. I'll turn this into a memory test, and not refer to any source material:
Australia won. Sri Lanka had the series in their grasp until Jayawardene grasped a half-volley off Ponting in Game Two.
I was saddened to read the other day of the passing of Irving Rosenwater on January 30 at the age of 73.
Rosenwater was a noted statistician and historian on our game, and one of a handful to have become a recognisable name to the wider cricketing community. He was the scorer for BBC Television's cricket telecasts in the 1970s until he succumbed in 1977 to the twin temptations of Australian sunshine and the Packer dollar, becoming the official scorer for Channel 9's World Series Cricket coverage. He stayed with Nine into the 1980s as I recall.
It's just about time to embark on the post-mortems for the 27th annual Australian ODI triseries. With this in mind, I thought it might be worthwhile to delve deep into the bowels of CricInfo archives and look at an exercise I conducted at the end of the 2000-01 tournament (the Carlton Series as it was called that year).
We're one game away from what would be the best thing to happen to Australian cricket in years. A cleansweep drubbing by Sri Lanka in the ODI triseries final.
Of course, we can probably expect Australia to win game two at the SCG and then have an acrimonious game three at the Telstra Dome Gabba on Tuesday. But a two-zip to Sri Lanka would put a big smile on my face, and on many others no doubt.
Collis King would be best remembered for being the batsman at the other end as Viv Richards blazed away in the 1979 World Cup Final at Lord's. It's more than a quarter of a century since he last played for the West Indies, and he's now in his fifties, but last weekend he turned up in central Queensland for a seven-a-side cricket competition.
That annual ritual of playing twelve games to eliminate one team from a three-team competition is over for another year. Graeme "The Mouth" Smith takes the South Africans home after Sri Lanka took the bonus points that mattered. Australia hasn't lost a BH/CUB/VB finals series since 1993. Fingers crossed for the Moody one.
"Supersub strikes again!"
- Gerald Sinstadt, ITV commentator, after David Fairclough scored the winning goal for Liverpool against St Etienne, 16 March 1977 (sources: Wikipedia and Bobpaisley.com)
