When he was a knee high to an off spinner, Jarrod’s parents could not afford a junior cricket bat, so his fathers team mates cut a broken bat in half and gave it to him. Through childhood he carried that bat everywhere. Some say if you look at him today he still carries that bat with him, metaphorically speaking, not on the tram (or the tube). On the field he was a leg spinning all rounder, his major skills in cricket revolved around fielding, sledging and captaining, which didn’t help at the selection tables. He once saw one player try to stab another with a stump. He once opened the bowling with two spinners, (Martin Crowe like), him and his mate got spanked. As well as cricket has he dabbled in film making and is currently making some sort of living out of cricket writing. His proudest moment is waking up Adam Gilchrist accidentally on a plane, and a documentary where you can see inside a guys asshole. He hopes, but does not really care, that you like his blogs.
September 24, 2009 – 1:09 am
You know when you have that dream that you are the most Awesomest thing alive.
Either you are a rockstar with men throwing their boxer shorts on stage, a boxer with old white Jewish writers saying you are better than Ali or some politician that fixes the world and also fights off evil aliens.
Everyone has the [...]
September 7, 2009 – 9:22 am
I am making an assumption that you are not a part of cricket blogging community and that you will not know now of the parting of one of Australia’s best cricket bloggers, Amy S.
Amy was only 26.
Her friend has put up a piece about her passing over at Amy’s site.
I will not go [...]
September 3, 2009 – 1:40 am
After the Old Trafford 2020 game was called off we called Lancashire’s Jim Cumbes to talk about the game. Some guy answered his phone, I can only assume it was Jim.
CWB: Hi Jim, shame about the rain.
Jim: Rain my ass, those blood umpire fools ruined this, I’ve ‘ad more rain indoors than this.
CWB: Whoa Jim, [...]
August 24, 2009 – 7:26 am
My mother is the least jingoistic Australian person I know. But when Michael Clarke was run out (in another freakish manner) she threw her hat down in disgust. Even the English thought this was funny.
All the other Aussies swore. Multiple times. We are still swearing, although some are crying as well. All are drunk.
I am [...]
August 23, 2009 – 3:20 pm
Australia
Tried to bowl England out for one ball, then thought they would wait for a declaration. Got 7 past their score in the first innings opening partnership, good for them.
England
Did what they had to do. Weren’t bad in the field, but seemed to wait for something to happen. Shouldn’t feel nervous.
Can Australia still [...]
August 23, 2009 – 2:37 pm
The Oval Curator should be murdered.
The ICC have been doing their very best to ensure all test matches are played on the same wicket.
The CEO Brown 5 day edition.
Slowish. Lowish. Great to bat on. Impossible to get wickets on. Stay true till the end. And guaranteed to get 5 days of gate [...]
August 23, 2009 – 5:39 am
The crowd stood and applauded their national hero gimp on his way out. They stood and applauded his 22. They stood and applauded their new talismanic all rounders arrival. They stood and applauded his stunning 29 (with two chances). They stood and applauded every shot Swann played (even the singles). They stood and gave him [...]
August 22, 2009 – 9:52 pm
After the Cardiff test a hard hitting journalist brought your attention to a racist comment from David Penbarthy over at the Punch.
After flogging it to Crikey, and offering it to every English Newspaper (who all ignored me) I noticed the story sort of disappeared.
Now it has come back, this is from the ECB:
“Nationwide News have [...]
August 22, 2009 – 6:31 pm
Australia
They were obviously done in by the devilish nature of this pitch. A team of Australia’s greatest re-animated corpse cricketers couldn’t have survived on this pitch. Or they would have made 450 in a canter.
England
I said if they bowl well this could be a good score. They bowled well, it now looks like a damn [...]
August 22, 2009 – 2:52 pm
King Probot Michael Hussey has done something the selectors should have done a long time ago; he has sacked himself from cricket.
Sure he is calling it a retirement.
But we all know a good sacking when we see it.
He has said:
“I have struggled for a long time and I think this is the [...]