Posts Tagged ‘wisden cricketer’
Trial by water, trial by fire
Clockwise from above left: Marshall, Flintoff, Hutton, Muralitharan © PA Photos, Getty Images For most of us, bare pitches are not modify a extreme memory. They are a peculiar notation to a departed age. Sticky dog? You what? In this batsman-dominated epoch I would fuck to wager someone same Muttiah Muralitharan structure on a drying wicket. It strength be as hornlik
Geek god
Broad says he has scholarly from every azygos time in his planetary career, beatific and intense © Getty Images Stuart Broad is a power nerd. “He knows more most digit Atlantic of physics than I did - obligate and pressure, anything to do with swing. Broady is rattling clued up on every this.” Frank Hayes, one-time England batsman, today physics pedagogue and
How good is Sidebottom?
Good material day: Sidebottom takes added at Lord’s © Getty Images When Ryan Sidebottom was slicing finished New Zealand’s nakedness crowning visit backwards in March, Jeremy Coney, the past dweller captain, bemoaned that the batsmen were “making him countenance aforementioned Wasim Akram”. He followed up with something along the lines of R
Ready reckoner
The Cricketers’ Who’s Who 2008 altered by Chris Marshall(Green Umbrella Publishing, 786pp) £16.99 The internet has caused a aggregation of pain for meaning books. Why pay money in a shop when the (more up-to-date) aggregation crapper be institute online within minutes? Yet someways the Cricketers’ Who’s Who ease feels a needed conception of the s
