Everyone knows about Dennis Lillee’s aluminium bat, but Sachin Tendulkar’s experiment with a helium-filled bat is less well known.
Sachin thought the lightness of the bat would allow him to bat freer and longer, but unfortunately, as this picture shows, the excess of helium rendered the bat unusable.
During the course of his career, Philip Tufnell experimented with 32 different types of unconventional bat. He never once made contact with the ball though.
January 7, 2008 at 4:08 pm
what I want to know is where where is the in depth repoting on what is rapidly being refered to as Harbhajan-called-Australian-man-Andrew-Symonds-of-Australia-A-Monkey,-which-is-ironic-as-I’ve-never-met-such-a-bunch-of-rascist-as-the-aussies-(no-offence-aussies-on-here,-but-it’s-ture)-gate?
January 7, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Like Tendulkar, King Cricket is obviously trying to rise above it all.
January 7, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Try this – http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/01/07/india_choose_the_wrong_time_to.html Its all kicking off! Is Monkey a racist term or a term ? or did he mean you cheekey monkey in a northern jokey kind of manner? Is Ricky Ponting the devil or just a nasty sh*t?
January 7, 2008 at 8:37 pm
if I know KC like I think I do, he’s sinking below it.
January 8, 2008 at 1:38 am
I think KC may be away. The “lies about pictures” items usually appear when he is away.
January 8, 2008 at 8:36 am
“away”, or dodging the difficult subject?
I know what I believe.
They’ve gone round to Morrison’s, bought a load of cheap pork pies and and are now, as I type, gorging themselves whilst watching GMTV hoping to advoind the sports news.
I know the truth. I know….
January 8, 2008 at 10:06 am
I my know the truth, but I cannot spell for toffee…
January 8, 2008 at 10:36 am
Lucky that none of us gentle folk are grammar nazi’s, or you’d be crying into your test tubes all day!
January 8, 2008 at 10:51 am
This is why I hide in here. free from the mockery of the rest of the intertubes’ grammar and spelling fundamentalists.
I actually know very little about cricket. It’s like baseball right?
/me ducks and covers
January 11, 2008 at 4:32 am
By the power of Greyskull! Does Tendulkar have the power?