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A New Dimension to Cricket Sledging: The Moon
I’ve just heard - in a “between the overs spot” on Test Match Special - that a listener’s son has been put in detention for taking “sledging” to a new level - mooning at the batsman from the field.
Jonathan Agnew reports that the young man got away with it initially, but was turned in later by a now ex-friend.
I didn’t have the “catch all” recorder running, and the BBC does not make normal commentary available under “Listen Again” - unfortunately.
I do, however, see this transferring to the Australian Test Team, and thence to Australian politics.
Picture credit: Jewlicious.
Tags: cricket sledge, detention, jewlicious, moon, sledging
Zimbabwe Cricket Tour Ban - British Govt cuts ties. Interview.
The British Government have taken action to force the English Cricket Board to cut cricketing ties with Zimbabwe, and cancel pending tours.
Jonathon Agnew interviewed Andrew Burnham MP, the UK Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, on Radio 4 at lunchtime in the New Zealand vs England One-Day Match.
(Note there is a technical fault half way through, but it recovers.)
From the Times:
Zimbabwe’s tour of England, which is scheduled for next year, will be scrapped today when the Government confirms that the squad will not be allowed into the country. Direct action means that the ECB will not face the threat of sanctions from the ICC, which has forced the governing body to fulfil fixtures in the past.
Andy Burnham, the Minister for Culture, Media and Sport, has written to Giles Clarke, the ECB chairman, urging the board to do all it can at ICC meetings in Dubai next week to ensure that Zimbabwe are also prevented from playing in the ICC World Twenty20, which was launched yesterday and will take place here in June 2009.
Opinion within the cricket world appears to be shifting rapidly, with Ray Mali, the ICC president and one of the staunchest supporters of Zimbabwe until this week, changing sides in a move that may prompt the powerful Asian bloc to back any move to suspend the country from all international cricket.
The crucial difference for the English Cricket Board is that Government action, in contrast to a decision taken on its own by the ECB, is treated as a force majeure. This releases the ECB from contractual obligations to make the tour, and the financial penalties for not doing so.
On previous occasions the England team have been forced to make a tour - despite player and government objections - because the penalties which would have been imposed by the ICC (International Cricket Council) would have been of a magnitude to seriously damage English Cricket, and the Government simply expressed “dismay” rather than banning the Tour.
Britblog Roundup Nominations for tomorrow
I am doing the Britblog Roundup this week.
Please send any outstanding posts you would like included to britblog AT gmail DOT com.
Cutoff time is when I get back from the Trent Bridge Test Match tomorrow.
And those free tickets for Monday are still available, but they are looking increasingly academic.
The roundup is a compendium of last week’s outstanding posts in the British Blogosphere.
Free tickets for Trent Bridge Test Match Day 5
I have a pair of tickets available for Day 5 of the Trent Bridge Test Match on Monday June 9th that I can give away. Fifth days are a bit of a lottery, but the last one was a corker and Trent Bridge is one of the most attractive grounds in the country.
Interested?
I am going on Sunday and can leave them at the ground for you to collect on Monday. Drop a note in the comments box below which must have a valid email address.
If you want to sing for your supper, then write a short article about an interesting cricket player or club local to you, and link back here.
I’ll draw this to a close at an arbritrary time that won’t be before teatime at the test on Saturday 7th June, and may be later if no one has expressed an interest.
Old Trafford Test Balanced on a Knife Edge: Ticket COmpetition
I was scathing about the England performance this morning. Well - it has turned around and it is now anybody’s game.
Luke at the Corridor of Uncertainty puts it like this:
It takes something for a team to match, or better, one of England’s infamous collapses, but New Zealand managed just that today. England’s brave attempt at capitulation was admirable: 5 for 28. New Zealand, however, out-collapsed them with a very flacid 7 for 29. Superb collapsing all round.
What a day. Who cares for Twenty20 when Test cricket can provide sixteen wickets in a single day, the momentum and energy flipping to and fro every hour? It was breathless cricket, with some wonderful bowling from the two spinners - Daniel Vettori and Monty Panesar - and some questionable batting mixed in among it.
Here is snippet from the commentary this morning.
And here is Monty Panesar taking his 100th Test Wicket. He has reached it in his 27th Test Match.
That’s the joy of cricket. And there’s another six hours to listen to tomorrow.
It will be a superb day as the match is on a knife edge, and that is after a morning when it looked like a disaster for England.
If you’re in Manchester it will cost £23 for an adult and £8 for a child for the whole day.
That’s less than half the price you would pay for a quarter as much first class football. It’s a no brainer.
Incidentally, I have a pair of tickets for the 5th Day of the next Test Match at Trent Bridge (Monday 9th June) available, and I’ll be starting a meme among cricket loving bloggers with those as the prize.
Watch this space.
England Test Match: Gurgle Gurgle
That flushing noise you may be able to hear is the second half of the England Innings in the Old Trafford Test Match…
As Aggers has just put it on the radio:
Just like old times…
Chew ‘em Up and Spit ‘em Out: Sri Lanka vs England Test Match
This is what happened to the England Cricket team this morning.
In reply to Sri Lanka’s score of 499 for 8, England are just all out for 82.
This is apparently the 18th lowest score in Test Match history.
Ouch.
[tags]cricket, eng;and, sri lanka, lowest test score in cricket[/tags]
The Commentators in the Early Hours: Test Match Special
From Jonathon Agnew on Test Match Special this morning (4:30am London Time) in Sri Lanka.
>It is our JOB to watch cricket.
Bastard. I hate some people sometimes.
For the provision of an explanation, I write this from the dark, damp, English Midlands.
(Photo: BBC)
[tags]cricket, tms, test match special, jonathon agnew[/tags]
