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(c)Cricinfo en-gb Dickie Bird, the Denny Krane of umpiring, I love him to bits http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607665.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607665.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT In January of this year, Dave Richardson, the ICC’s General Manager, responded to a rising wave of umpire bashing by writing an article for Cricinfo extolling the virtues of the ICC elite panel of umpires. http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607546.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607546.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT A distant aunt of mine is a psychic http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607471.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607471.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Domestic cricket is splattered with players that have flirted with an international career having never managed to turn the romance into a marriage. http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607432.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607432.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Whether you love it or loathe it, sledging is a part of the game http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607391.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607391.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT If the cricketing nations of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were a design company looking to bid on a printing contract for a multinational organisation, they would by now have been told to pack up their printing press and hit the road. http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607352.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607352.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT If I say “Golden Arches”, you think “McDonalds” http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607333.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607333.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT It seems a fashionable moment in time to be having a crack at England http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607314.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607314.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Poor old Mick Lewis http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607300.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607300.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Cricketers can be a canny lot, prone to using any means possible to eek out an advantage, however small http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607291.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607291.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT The last time Australia and New Zealand attempted to co-host a sporting tournament of any significance, the result was nothing short of farcical. http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607217.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607217.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT For the vast majority of the crowd at Eden Park, tonight’s Twenty20 game against the West Indies was about just one thing http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607168.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607168.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Raise the subject of Twenty20 cricket and you will inevitably witness a polarisation of opinion on the scale of the Red Sea parting. http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607056.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607056.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT That Malcolm Speed should be compared to Kofi Annan surprises me little http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607025.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607025.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Okay, so I picked the particular year as a lame Monday morning pun, but my point is to try and take a peek at what the game might look like fifteen or twenty years from now. http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607015.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/607015.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT When the cricket equipment manufacturer Kookaburra, describes the composition of their cricket balls, you can almost taste the century of history the company has behind it http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/606996.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/606996.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT New Zealand Cricket uncovered a rare gem the day they unleashed a Canterbury policeman on batsmen of the world http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/606906.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/606906.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT There’s a shirt for sale at Sportsonline.com signed by the Australian team and the members of the World XI (remember them?) The price……a tad over $4,000 of your finest Australian dollars. http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/606837.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/606837.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT I’ve loved the game of cricket ever since my father invented ‘roof-catch’ http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/606832.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/606832.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT Earl Woods bred a Tiger http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/606819.html?CMP=OTC-RSS http://www.cricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/606819.html Mon, 13 Sep 2021 06:53:33 GMT