Australia

Bask in the glorious scene

< 1 minute readBefore the Champions’ Trophy began, ICC chief executive, Haroon Lorgat, gave it the big sell: “This is short, sharp and exciting. We have also created a winner’s jacket.” He didn’t say he’d created MULTIPLE winners’ jackets. You know you’re good at something when you get given a jacket to wear

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A cricket bat at a wedding

< 1 minute readYou don’t often see cricket bats at weddings. It should happen more often. This wasn’t a normal wedding though. This was the wedding of Miriam and Jrod of Cricket With Balls. They were married at The Oval and the groom wore cricket whites. Send your pictures of cricket bats and

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Inconsistency in Australian cricket

< 1 minute readBert writes: A common comment you hear from Australians, is that they lost the 2009 Ashes series because they were “inconsistent”. However, what they have failed to understand is that in cricket, especially Test match cricket, ‘inconsistent’ is a direct synonym for ‘rubbish’. An inconsistent batsman plays a couple of

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King Cricket this week

< 1 minute readWe’re in Portugal, but we’ve got stuff ready for the week ahead. There’s a cricket bat in an unusual place, two match reports and an email that we quite liked and decided to turn into a post, even though it’s a bit dated now. On a side note, we just

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