AGB Crickettag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-17694922009-12-24T16:05:49+11:00"Fruit for the sightscreen."TypePadFORD RANGER WRAPtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cb34453ef0128767b2cfd970c2009-12-24T16:05:49+11:002009-12-24T16:05:49+11:00I don't see much of the Ford Ranger Cup, so yesterday, the first day of my holidays, I pinched a couple of hours of the match between New South Wales and Victoria. That's the Blues and the Bushies if you...Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/2009/12/ford-ranger-wrap.htmlPIES, DAMNED PIES & STATISTICStag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cb34453ef0120a773db8e970b2009-12-23T11:55:00+11:002009-12-23T14:31:07+11:00You've never seen so many pie graphs. Well, Russ, Dave Barry, you probably have, but the rest of us... Pull of the baggy green is fading AUSTRALIA has been given a sobering snapshot of the looming challenge to keep its...Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/2009/12/pies-damned-pies-statistics.htmlDICKY KNEEDStag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cb34453ef01287672fd0f970c2009-12-22T12:29:22+11:002009-12-22T12:32:00+11:00South Africa need to resolve a selection dilemma regarding Shane Warne's favourite John Blackman: Makhaya Ntini conundrum has selectors on back foot The imminent return of the world's top-ranked bowler, Dale Steyn, from a hamstring injury is likely to fortify...Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/2009/12/dicky-kneeds.htmlPAPER CNUT AND THE CNUT CASEtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cb34453ef0128766efa44970c2009-12-21T14:35:00+11:002009-12-21T14:55:36+11:00I like Paper Cut, especially the way he calls interviewers by name, not the hideous "mate". But his tauntebration of Gayle on Saturday was ridiculous. He looked like a dick, deserved a smack in the mouth, and was let off...Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/2009/12/paper-cnut-and-the-cnut-case.htmlEASY, TIGERtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cb34453ef0120a7612c53970b2009-12-18T12:10:00+11:002009-12-18T12:14:26+11:00In the front flap of THE REBEL TOURS: Cricket's Crisis of Conscience sits the following spruik: Yet throughout the 1980s, cricket tours from England, Sri Lanka, the West Indies and Australia repeatedly defied sanctions. The players involved earned enormous salaries...Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/2009/12/easy-tiger.htmlSAY IT AIN'T SO, SPIROtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cb34453ef0128766425b7970c2009-12-18T11:15:00+11:002009-12-18T12:15:39+11:00Good call? Necessary call? Big call? Brad Haddin could be the next great keeper batsman Ian Healy was more a keeper/batsman in the old school tradition. I always believed, though, his keeping was over-rated. He didn’t seem to miss many...Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/2009/12/say-it-aint-so-spiro.htmlTHIRD TEST: THE WACAtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cb34453ef012876565055970c2009-12-16T10:25:00+11:002009-12-17T15:06:19+11:00Crash is on drugs: "a nation still suffering from PWD (post-Warne depression)." Balls! Name me just one person suffering from PWD, just one. Did anyone see BJ and The Boys on Monday night?. (Mike Hussey, a big AGB fan, actually...Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/2009/12/third-test-the-waca.htmlAUSTRALIA'S NEXT TOP SPINNERtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cb34453ef0120a7411ad0970b2009-12-11T13:40:00+11:002009-12-11T13:55:20+11:00You're in a Cricket Australia meeting and come up with what, on face value, seems like a wild idea: "How about we set up a reality TV show to find a spinner?" Someone says that's a stupid idea. Someone else...Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/2009/12/australias-next-top-spinner.htmlDOOS & DON'TStag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cb34453ef0120a733131c970b2009-12-09T13:55:00+11:002009-12-09T14:06:48+11:00Pod for Hewy. (Is "that guy from Pakistan, who just chucks it" Saeed Ajmal?)Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/2009/12/doos-donts.htmlOH, THE HUMILITYtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cb34453ef01287636aa42970c2009-12-09T13:48:45+11:002009-12-09T13:48:45+11:00Question: Have our cricketers ever been likeable? Certainly not in my cricket-watching lifetime. How about before then; before 1970? Was Neil Harvey more likeable in his day? My mum, a mad cricket fan, even hated St Richie of Doyen. A...Tonyhttp://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/cricket/2009/12/oh-the-humility.html