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Showing posts with label proper cricket takes 3 days or more. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

More Smudger Flashbacks

Smujinder has remembered another tasty little nugget from the depths of his cricket viewing memory. Once more I shall let the great sage's words do the so called talking!!!

This time from 1920  on ‘strilian captain –  22 stone tug of war champion Warwick 'big ship' Armstrong - who “permitted neither pulled muscles nor psychological upsets”. Sound attitude. Unfortunately, the book does not state his views on warm ups, but I think we can guess.

It occurs to me Mr Armstrong's nickname is only one letter away from the one we don't say to Coco's face.

Incidentally, despite appearances to the contrary, Mr Smudgergee is not c130 years old, he has simply been reading an off-beat book on the History of the Ashes (not the one pictured I don't think).

Saturday, 21 January 2012

Exclusive Big Match Footage - LiveSportOn.TV Indoor 6's

HOLY CROSS V BOROUGHMUIR COMPLETE
ONE OR TWO CLIPS PENDING FROM THE TRANENT GAME.

The future is finally here. In case you didn't notice the link in Charlie's comment in the previous report, herein lies surely the first ever representation of a Cross innings on a Manhattan Skyline style graph. Essential viewing!!!

Sensational Statisticals

Also essential viewing for any dedicated Crosser's are the following clips documenting the matches pretty much in their entirety.

Allowance must be made for the initial stop-start nature of the clips which are sometimes a ball or two at a time. By the end HX Productions managed to film the action an over at a time.

HX v BOROUGHMUIR
1st Innings (Boroughmuir)








2nd Innings (HX)


HX v TRANENT
1st Innings (HX)




2nd Innings (Tranent)



Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Archive Hour

Some Crossers may enjoy this 1948 British Council film on cricket, recently made available online:

http://timeimage.org.uk/archive/entry/cricket.html

Monday, 15 March 2010

Twenty 20 vision

Crossers with a preference for the vulgar and unrefined may like to know that IPL 3.0 is being shown on ITV 4 and online at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/IPL

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Twenty 20 debate

Crossers' favourite author Gideon Haigh takes part in this discussion of
Twenty 20 'cricket' that may interest some of you:

http://www.cricinfo.com/talk/content/current/multimedia/451195.html