Well its rock and roll cricket on the tv tonight. Australia plays India in the 20 twenty match at the MCG and it looks to be close to a sell out with 80 something thousand spectators making as much noise as they can. Sitting here watching it up loud an in Hi Def tv its [...]

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I was just reading the Wikipedia entry for Sir Donald Bradman who is generally acknowledged as the greatest cricket batsman of all time. He also died in 2001 and across the world sportsmen and women stopped in silence before their games to honour his memory. It was a sad time for Australians and the cricketing [...]

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Say it isn’t so, Adam Gilchrist to retire …
AUSTRALIAN vice-captain and wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist announced his retirement Saturday night from all forms of cricket.
Gilchrist, 36, said he would retire from Test cricket at the conclusion of current clash against India at the Adelaide Oval before finishing up his Australian career at the conclusion of the [...]

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Yeah well it looks like I spoke too soon about the cricket. After a brief rally by Symmons and Gilchrist it looks like they are about to collapse in a rather large and very pathetic heap. Once again the top order has failed under what should be a no brainer and certainly not a high [...]

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I thought listening to the cricket on the radio at work today that this post would be a dummy spit after what could be best described as great bowling by the Indians or alternatively dismal batting by the Australians. But now as i am sitting here watching with the Aussies 5/156 its a lot better [...]

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This afternoon i spent the afternoon at the Twenty 20 cricket match between Tasmania and South Australia. For those not in the know, Twenty 20 cricket is the rock and roll version of cricket with 20 overs a side to score as much as they can and defend it against the opposition. Its short, its [...]

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Its one of those days it seems. I rushed around like a chook with its head cut off to get everything done and out of the way so i could sit down at 7.30pm to watch the Twenty 20 cricket on tv live from … um … somewhere. Perth i think. So imagine my [...]

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I watched tonights football match between Syndey FC and LA Galaxy played tonight in Sydney. I was expecting LA Galaxy to walk all over them but instead it was a good win to Sydney. The scoreline of 5-3 hides the fact that while it was an exhibition match, it did also tend at times to [...]

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