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The Silly Mid Off
http://thesillymidoff.blogspot.com/
A cricket blog from America
- Added on: Jun 13th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: davidr1534
- Listed in: Sports
- Tags: cricket
Recent Posts
A broken ECB promise
First up, please accept my apologies for the two weeks of inactivity. Some times the real world simply gets too busy. Posting may be light (or less) for the next week but after that it should be full speed ahead.In two weeks of absence several remark...
Autobiographies
Five of England's players during the last Ashes series have already written their autobiographies, and it was with some alarm that I read about 23 year old Stuart Broad's soon-to-be published Bowled Over. The Amazon description promises a "lavishly ...
Banned for two games for blogging
Tom Redfern writes a great blog cataloging his efforts to score a "pure" century, which for him means against decent bowling and scored in fifty balls or less. He was recently banned for two games for allegedly swearing at the umpire after being sawn...
Getting back on the train one Hitler mask at a time
For various reasons (well two really - lots of work and lots of fairly uninteresting Twenty 20 games) I have not watched that much cricket in the last couple of months. I managed to catch the last few overs of India's innings against Australia this ...
The baggy green
Before the Ashes, when he was still seen as Australia's great weapon, Phil Hughes described his relationship with the baggy green cap that he had been given on debut. His words are so odd that they deserve to be quoted at length: "I keep it locked a...
American variances on cricket
Samir Chopra has discussed recently (here and here) the possibility of introducing baseball-style fielding statistics into cricket, for example a catch to dropped catch ratio, runs saved, fielding errors and so forth. Having finally finished reading...
