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e team well look at the average age of the australian top order over the last couple of years other then brief flirtations with smith and hughes it s been pretty old the bowling is a bit different as it is a younger set and siddle got a break early as did peter george i think as michael starc darren pattinson and patrick cummins get fit we might see them get into the side more often still these guys are just making it now and there weren t many young cricketers pushing for spots 3 or 4 years ago sm from your experience in playing grade cricket in melbourne is it still a good pathway to selection or our young cricketers would be better served at the center of excellence from an early age are the states really interested in producing test players jk my experience was mostly me being shit so i am not sure it means much i think different players need different things i think some players are over coached at academies and just need to learn by playing while others need that extra help and refinement warne was better without it hayden was better for it when i spoke to craig howard he said that he never saw a spinner come out of the academy who was not worse than when he went in i mean are young players even asked if they want to go the academy maybe their club coach or state coaches are better there are some pretty good former cricketers coaching club sides in australia if i was a young leggie i would probably want to play for peter sleep s side in adelaide rather than be shipped off to john davison s spin coaching academy sm do you think the players still believe in the primacy of test cricket is that still the ultimate goal for an up and coming cricketer jk now i could be wrong because it was a while ago and i generally take very little notice of things like this but didn t the australian players when surveyed vote overwhelmingly that test cricket was still their favourite other than the odd special case like dirk nannes or shaun tait it seems that even players like david warner love test cricket so why wouldn t that be the ultimate goal one day that might change but for now i see no reason why test cricket shouldn t be their number one priority i would say the fans would want that as well also one day cricket is dead again isn t it and you can only play about two t20s a summer under the current icc rules it seems odd to think that either of those are going to be more important than test cricket either way it doesn t matter because as long as they fix grade cricket then everything will take care of itself that s what the report says anyways you can also hear jarrod talking to gideon haigh about the whole issue here guest post by sunny mishra sunny is a keen sehwagologist and even keener test cricket enthusiast while he is not fixing the odd backyard game or learning the vagaries of lbw law he is often found pointing fingers on twitter https clearcricket wordpress com 2011 08 25 what the matrix feed 1 1191 cricket australia logo clearcricket sunny excessive turn and other punchlines https clearcricket wordpress com 2011 07 24 excessive turn and other punchlines https clearcricket wordpress com 2011 07 24 excessive turn and other punchlines comments sun 24 jul 2011 12 31 53 0000 http clearcricket wordpress com p 1185 continue reading it s very easy to cry conspiracy when decisions made by a governing body go against the team you support despite it being more often than not wide of the mark in hampshire s case it could be claimed that the 8 point deduction for a poor note the use of inverted commas pitch imparted by the ecb was not made entirely without the past relationship between these two bodies in mind setting hampshire s history with the ecb aside though it is important to look at this penalty in pure cricketing terms the verdict was that the pitch offered excessive turn for spinners indeed of the 36 wickets that fell in the 3 days of play the first was washed out 25 were taken by spinners neither side managed an innings scoring rate of 3 an over and the game was played on the same pitch that drew attention for its spin in a televised 40 over match however i can t help but feel that the point is being missed by the ecb let s consider batting wise the two sides that played in this match hampshire sit bottom of division 1 for a number of reasons not least because they have been diabolical this season with the bat only once have they reached a first innings total in excess of 300 whilst nottinghamshire s top 6 share three centuries between them this season neither side are exactly india s galacticos are they likewise the two stars with the ball samit patel and danny briggs are hardly part time rubbish you see cropping up and taking wickets in 20 20 matches the former is a consistently excellent allrounder whilst the latter is fast becoming one of the best spinners in the country if the wicket is showing signs of spin then you d be asking questions if these two weren t able to take advantage of it i am it has to be stressed not trying to exalt the pitch in any way it was a tired wicket not conducive to free flowing batting but it provided us with one hell of a contest two international class batsmen neil mckenzie and adam voges played first class knocks in the match is that not what people want to see or would we rather have half the wickets and twice the runs i can assure you that had that been the case then as imran tahir bowled the final ball of the final day two results would not have still been possible as they were here despite a few grumbles about damaging bowlers no punishments are handed out to grounds on which 4 or 5 day matches barely reach the third innings before a draw is shaken on surely these are poor pitches as they do not offer anything for the bowlers will a team be docked points for preparing a pitch that offers excessive help to the batsmen i doubt it we must also examine the protocol followed by the ecb in monitoring and reporting pitches on the first day of play at the rose bowl 13 wickets fell though that is a fair few it shouldn t exactly set any alarms ringing however a pitch inspector was present at the ground for the following two days under what circumstances was he called over i m not convinced a first innings 65 overs in length the shortest innings of the match infact with six wickets falling to spin should be deemed bad enough to investigate it could well be that the ecb already had an eye on this game following the televised match mentioned above i speculate but the point remains that there appears to be no structure to the pitch monitoring system used by the ecb as found out by warwickshire and worcestershire earlier in the season it is also slightly baffling that there has been no investigation into the pitch used in the roses match where 16 wickets fell on day 2 and 13 fell on day 3 it would be interesting to find out if the umpires at the hampshire nottinghamshire match would have reported the rose bowl wicket if the pitch inspection committee had not already been there for two thirds of the match so at the end of all this nottinghamshire go home with a few points and hampshire with even less a thrilling championship match somewhat of a rarity nowadays with any number of twists that goes down to the very last ball is deemed poor and punishable thanks ecb good job article by josh taylor https clearcricket wordpress com 2011 07 24 excessive turn and other punchlines feed 1 1185 pitch clearcricket buffering usa https clearcricket wordpress com 2011 06 11 buffering usa https clearcricket wordpress com 2011 06 11 buffering usa comments fri 10 jun 2011 23 45 39 0000 http clearcricket wordpress com p 1171 continue reading a few months ago the west indies took on sri lanka in a test match in colombo this match was of such little commercial consequence that no major broadcaster bothered to cover it and so the only transmission available was from the understandably ill equipped sri lankan state tv it would only be mild hyperbole to suggest that no one was watching well of course except for me in the bitter bite of the east coast winter during the witching hours of the night i stared red eyed into the dull blue glow of my laptop puffs of breath swelling before me anyone entering the room may have suspected something salacious but the flickering images were of the innocent merriment that is cricket in colombo they sputtered stopped and sputtered again the sound was by turn muffled and over modulated large pulsating squares occasionally coalescing into a recognizable image constituted the picture almost never for instance would i see what happened in the time between the bowler releasing the ball and the batsman reacting to it the ball would slip between the edges of two flashing pixels before re emerging in the keepers gloves well bowled a stuffy static ranjit fernando confirmed then the free and probably illegal live stream froze and darkness poured into my corner of kalorama off 18th st never an organic process watching cricket in the us is no walk in the park not boasting much of a market cricket is never on tv you must have a link finding this link however is a science only the most precise google search and shrewd analyses of url syntax will unearth a functioning stream you compromise on quality poor resolution endless buffering and the threat of malicious spyware are endemic for a time you will have a reliable website a portal of streaming certitude a moment later like all happiness it vanishes the more secure option is to purchase a link however for many this is a violation of principal why should i a pakistani an indian a bona fide aficionado pay for my goddam cricket but this being america you soon learn that free lunches are hard to come by watching cricket with others is an equally agonizing process involving s video and hdmi cables compatibility issues and tv resolutions the seventeen inches of a laptop are not conducive to communal viewing even if technical support can be managed the logistics of organizing a hospitable homeboy to host a pack marauding desis can tax ones social capital there is also the small matter of time zone discrepancies most cricket is played around four a m and not much warrants the labor apart from world cup semi finals at mohali and so cricket here in america is not only watched in poor quality it is watched alone but this is solitude worth seeking america is a busy bustling overbearing place bills to be paid work to be performed revelry to be had step on the concrete side walk and you are shoved into the hyper competition of corporate ladders immigration deadlines and bar fights success is survival you ll be hollered at by tom freidman and sarah palin by kim kardhashian and jon stewart by libertarians socialists somali cab drivers and korean dry cleaners money in money out for us immigrants non natives we often struggle to catch up and though we consume beefy burritos and the vh1 awesomely bad hits from the 90s segments like any red blooded americano on some days we wish only to savor a soupy plate of daal or a pull up a starched cotton pajama on some days we wish to return to memory but on others days memory doesn t cut it so we turn on the cricket and we go live there with the multitudes cheering every flick to fine leg and ball that beats the bat our fists thrusting in triumph our voices rasping in scorn we are home we know the players the pavilions the chachas in the crowd we greet ricky and sachin like kin abuse lala and gullay like domestic help we pull up a stool with our guys at the bar old tony grieg and richie benaud ramiz bhai and shastri ian bishop and ranjit fernando too we know them we understand them we inhabit their world completely for us in america cricket is terra firma but immigrant or native as time passes our lives evolve and grow the new washes away the old and even friends become unknown but some elementals endure and for those who grew up with the game there are certain environs like the green top members pavilion at the scg or the cascading concrete steps of the feroz shah kotla the stone wall portuguese fortress at galle or the wire frame cylinder that towers above the oval that have been fixtures in our lives from the beginning the sights and sounds and sinews that populate these landscapes constant since genesis recollect how and why we love and as our lives meander from schools to universities from girlfriends to wives pay checks to pay checks we often wish to return to a simpler unburdened time a time of longer summers and softer drinks a time when the roar of the crowd on tv was all there was to live for and so we are drawn on solemn foggy nights to our darkened bedrooms in muted tones to these sputtering streams of solitude we hear trumpets the din of the crowd and we return to colombo article by raza naqvi https clearcricket wordpress com 2011 06 11 buffering usa feed 15 1171 laptop soulbw buffering1 1 the final walk of the wizard from oz https clearcricket wordpress com 2011 05 20 the final walk of the wizard from oz https clearcricket wordpress com 2011 05 20 the final walk of the wizard from oz comments fri 20 may 2011 05 00 57 0000 http clearcricket wordpress com p 1155 continue reading a couple of weeks ago shane warne announced via his twitter account that this ipl season would be the last season of professional cricket for him with that comes to an end one of the most fascinating chapters of a sportsman his career has been plagued with scandals starting with his dealing with bookies a drugs ban and his marital infidelities it s not without reason warne earned the nickname hollywood since his entire career on and off the field since his international debut was one big opera warne made his debut against india in the 1991 92 series at the sydney cricket ground and finished with figures of 1 150 his maiden test wicket being ravi shastri while his exploits in the ashes series in england in 1993 is well known including what many called the ball of the century it was in a test match in colombo sri lanka that the world came to recognise warne sri lanka needed roughly 40 runs to win with 4 wickets left when allan border turned to warne three wickets for 11 runs later a win for australia secured and warne s international career was up and running in that summer he spun australia to a win against west indies with his first five wicket haul 7 52 in the second innings at the mcg and then came the ashes of 1993 his very first ball in his ashes series debut to mike gatting ended up being called the ball of the century pitched well outside leg and spinning past gatting no mean feat in itself considering gatting s girth to hit the top of off stump the taylor healy leap the stunned look on gatting s face and the aura was well and truly set from that series on every single time warne marked his run up for his first bowl the crowd would hush up expecting something special and warne more often than not delivered truth be told he exp...