My 9 year old son asked me this question as I was driving him to school this morning. I was listening to the BBC world service as they were running a news item on England in Pakistan. I asked him and his sister to be quiet for a few minutes so I could [...]

Heard this again on Radio Sport NZ today and was reminded of how funny it was when I first heard it. Think it was Kerry O’Keefe delivering the line.
Kasprowicz does bowl a lot of Rock Hudson’s………pause……they look straight but they’re not.

Farewell my elitist friend. Our secret love affair is tabloid fodder. Freddie adorns the cover of Hello while KP resists scores of teenage girls admiring his biceps as Sourav tests the limits of ‘player power’ against a backdrop of burning Chappell effigies.

Test cricket now has everything to rival the glitz and gutter of football and its vogue is gutting me like a freshly served salmon.

Freddie and Jonesy have given us all a cracking demo on how to get the relatively new ball reversing like an Aussie at a press conference.
But let’s hark back a decade or two and remember with fondness the correct way to get the dulling nut dipping at pace into the right-handers pads, shiny side [...]

Watching the Ashes live from New Zealand not been for the faint-hearted. The morning sessions started at 9.30pm local time so a semi-reasonable person would watch the morning session and go to bed.
An ardent and partisan cricket fan would perhaps start watching the beginning of the post lunch session at 10 past midnight local [...]