Tag Archives: Cricket

Choice stuff from the Guardian

Posted on 17 July, 2015 by jb

117th over: Australia 424-3 (Voges 24, Smith 168) Short, rank rubbish from Ali to Smith, who stands there, waits a while, has a cigarette, downloads the new Wilco album, listens to it (it’s only 35 minutes), goes for a comfort … Continue reading →

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Tendulkar out on 91

Posted on 25 August, 2011 by jb

9 runs  short of his 100th international century

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Don’t tell me, don’t tell me….

Posted on 24 August, 2011 by jb

In the distant past, I used to work with a guy with the heroically unlikely name of Waldemar. (One of the dwarfs in the Nibelungen, I believe.) He surprised us all in the late 1970s by turning into an early … Continue reading →

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This is the BBC in London….

Posted on 25 July, 2011 by jb

Live commentary of the 1st Test England vs India 1617 India 224-5 (40 overs remaining)   Now then, here’s a turn-up, a Mexican wave at Lord’s … and not surprisingly it peters out as it reaches the pavilion, the disapproving … Continue reading →

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