Tag Archives: cricket

Catch of the Day

By 6000 | 6000 | January 9, 2012

I actually spotted this on Sky News last night while looking out for the draw for the FA Cup 4th Round – something my boys like to toy with occasionally. And then I forgot about it while attempting to sleep in the heat and humidity of Cape Town. But then I was reminded of it by [...]

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Mental!

By 6000 | 6000 | November 11, 2011

Yesterday’s cricket at Newlands was a bit mental and broke all sort of records. And even those records that it didn’t break, it threatened with physical violence and actual bodily harm. Cricinfo’s chief statistician S Rajesh was watching it all from the safety of Bangalore and produced this wonderful summary of what happened, what didn’t happen and [...]

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Great er… “weekend”…

By 6000 | 6000 | January 28, 2011

What an amazing weekend for Cape Town sports fans. There’s another football double-header at Cape Town Stadium, with Vasco da Gama up against Golden Arrows and Ajax Cape Town taking on Moroka Swallows – that’s tonight at 6pm and 8:45pm. Then there’s Pro 20 cricket at Newlands (that’s Sahara Park Newlands to you and me), [...]

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Too close to home

By 6000 | 6000 | January 7, 2011

Several emails and tweets asking why I am not blogging about the Luke Fairweather story. It’s a reasonable question. Thanks for asking. Occasionally  - just occasionally – there are topics which I would LOVE to blog about, but am unable to. These are generally specific and local issues which are linked somehow to what we [...]

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Boring heroism

By 6000 | 6000 | January 7, 2010

As Paul Collingwood and Ian Bell display boring heroism and continue to frustrate the South Africans just down the road at Newlands, I have better things to be doing than blogging. And not that I want SA to succeed in winning this game, but maybe they’d do better if they had a little help. You [...]

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