Cook will take singles all night.

Mashable on Apple’s CEO. Sound familiar?

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.

Go check it out.

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.

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 )

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.

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:

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.

You may show your approval by voting for the Don in the following poll. Or be totally misguided and pick any of the other ten.

update: happy to see some people voting, but please, also let me know who you are and what you voted

I have no complaints about the final eleven, but Cricinfo has left one question unanswered: who should captain the side?

The World XI combines some of the greatest players in history, with ego’s to match. It would require someone special to earn the respect of these players and get them playing as a team.

The World XI: Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar, Viv Richards, Garry Sobers, Adam Gilchrist, Malcolm Marshall, Shane Warne, Wasim Akram, Dennis Lillee.

So who to pick as captain?

Adam Gilchrist and Sachin Tendulkar are both out of the question. They seem too gentle to captain this team.

And as a rule, I don’t think fast bowlers should captain any side, so that is another three out of the question.

Garry Sobers has enough on his plate as the team’s allrounder and Jack Hobbs never captained his county of country, ruling him out too.

So that leaves me with Len Hutton, Don Bradman, Viv Richards and Shane Warne as possible captains. Four formidable cricketers.

The most exciting choice would be to pick Warne (“the greatest captain Australia never had”), but I am not sure he is the man to lead this eleven.

Warne’s captaincy is about being daring and inventive. Great when your the underdog, but the World XI is just about dominating the opposition into submission.

That’s something you could leave up to Richards, who never lost a Test series as captain of the West Indies and won the first two editions of the World Cup. And Richards is a man who knows how to handle fast bowlers off course.

But he won’t be my pick for captaining the World XI.

And neither will Hutton, despite his cunning captaincy of England on some of the hardest tours ever in Australia en West Indies, leading England to victories there.

Lets be honest. There really is only one man fit to captain the all-time World XI. The greatest cricketer ever: Donald Bradman.

In every sense a world beater, both as batsman and captain, Bradman is the natural leader for the all-time World XI.

Right?

A proposal that hasn’t gone down well with the Associates and their ‘voice’ on internet; CricketEurope.

The website is doing a large number of opinionated articles on the subject (which makes good reading btw).

And there is more, they want your help:

Do you disagree with the ICC’s proposal to reduce the number of teams in the 2015 World Cup to just 10?

If so then sign up to our online petition, now.

Click here

Do it, and do it immediately!

The list of names will be forwarded to the ICC in advance of their 11 October Board meeting where the proposal will be discussed.

A lot of people don’t really like Pietersen – to put it mildy. But this “arrogant” and “cocky” man is one of the few international sport stars who takes time to answer questions on Twitter:

The barrage of questions is part of a competition; the best question wins a signed shirt and bat.

Cynics will probably say he’s doing a bit of self-promotion, and yes, that could very well be part of it.

But Pietersen has taken time to answer hundreds of questions – even the really bad ones – in a manner that shows he is enjoying engaging with fans.

I say hats off to Pietersen.

He doesn’t have to do this, but he has given numerous fans a chance to connect with him in a way other cricketers – and athletes in general – could learn from.