Cook will take singles all night.
Mashable on Apple’s CEO. Sound familiar?
What’s in a name?
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Most beautiful cricket site. Ever.
This really is the most elegant, beautiful constructed cricket site I have ever come across: highwayhurricanes.com
Someone in this team is very, very good. A real talent in web design and development.
If you know anything about responsive web design/development, you’ll love this site. And even if you haven’t got a clue what I’m talking about, you’ll probably still like it.
It’s funny too.
Sachin’s saving his 100th ton
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Sachin's saving 100th ton for ODI series "As a boy I dreamed of making 100 under lights in Cardiff wearing 3 sweaters in late September"—
Paul Kelso (@pkelso) August 22, 2011
Too good not to post. And to savour.
Tendulkar will get his 100th eventually, but I’m happy he didn’t in this series.
England dominated this series and Tendulkar not getting his record is just part of their performance.
Cricket in 1950 and my post-Ashes-dip
From the British Council Film Archive:
As England battle it out against Australia at Lord’s cricket ground in an attempt to claim the Ashes, we witness the mastery involved – both on and off the field.
http://vimeo.com/17360378
And yes, it has been a while since I posted anything. Can’t be bothered that much with cricket at the moment.
A slight post-Ashes-dip probably, not helped by the fact it has been really busy at work and I just don’t care much about all those ODI’s.
Looking forward to watching the Netherlands at the World Cup though. Hope they can cause another upset like the one from 2009 (← watch the video in there 
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Wisden Almanack on Twitter; breaking ground for a whole new set of statistics
Wisden Almanack, “exhaustive chronicler of the best-loved game”, opened an account on Twitter last week:
A humble 147-year-old takes its first tentative steps into the blogosphere. Any older Twitterers out there?—
Wisden Almanack (@WisdenAlmanack) December 17, 2010
Cricket’s bible will probably start including Twitter-stats as of next year: most followers, most tweets, average per day, most retweets, most replies, etcetera.
I’m guessing that Sachin Tendulkar could get his hands on a few of these records as well.
Multiplying Bradman’s career stats
With Tendulkar seemingly setting a new record with every innings he plays, you might almost be excused to believe he is the greatest batsman ever.
Almost.
Tendulkar played 171 Test matches so far (and he’ll probably be playing his 200th as well) and is probably the best of his generation. But his figures – and those of everyone else – pale in comparison with those of Donald Bradman, who only played 52 matches.
The proof is in the following table. It shows Bradman’s current figures and his figures if he had played as much games as modern age batsmen (about 2 or 3 times more) and those of the modern greats Tendulkar, Ponting and Lara:
| Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | 50 | 100 | 200s | 300s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradman | 52 | 80 | 6996 | 13 | 29 | 12 | 2 |
| Bradman x 2 | 104 | 160 | 13992 | 26 | 58 | 24 | 4 |
| Bradman x 3 | 156 | 240 | 20988 | 39 | 87 | 36 | 6 |
| Tendulkar | 171 | 280 | 14240 | 58 | 49 | 6 | 0 |
| Ponting | 148 | 251 | 12250 | 55 | 39 | 5 | 0 |
| Lara | 131 | 232 | 11953 | 48 | 34 | 9 | 2 |
Bradman tops every stat, except making fifties.
Every time I take a closer look at Bradman’s statistics they astonish me. The man was mindblowing good.
