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Cornell put three runs on the board in the third off a pair of singles, a hit batsmen, and a pair of errors from catcher Pledger...
...nature of sport that records don't last forever. Hundreds of middle-distance runners can now do the mile in less than 4 min. It won't be long before other batsmen reach and exceed the 200-run mark; there are at least a half-dozen in the modern game who have both the power and stamina to pull it off any day of the week. But history will never forget the Bannisters and Tendulkars for proving that the only barriers are in our minds...
...Australia's long run of success contributed to a good feeling in the nation, coinciding as it did with a commodity-fueled economic boom. Its cricket prowess was helped by an apparently endless seam of talent: brilliant batsmen, fast bowlers and a spin bowler, Shane Warne, who managed to do things with a cricket ball that nobody had imagined for decades. But Warnie is retired from test cricket, his pudgy frame and perpetually highlighted hair now to be found in the TV commentary box. In the first two tests of this southern summer, Australia's aging warhorses and green youngsters...
...Crimson up 3-0. In the third, however, the Toreros blew up with seven runs off freshman starter Zach Hofeld. San Diego then tallied four more against freshman Anthony Nutter in the next inning. The Toreros recorded 11 hits on the day and took advantage of walks and hit batsmen to score their runs. The Harvard pitching staff walked five San Diego batters and plunked six others.“Pitching’s the name of the game,” Walsh said. “They got it and we don’t. There it goes. We?...
...enamored of cricket, the game comes in three forms: stupefying (the traditional Test match, which can last five days and still not produce a result); slightly less stupefying (one-day cricket, in which scoring rates are quicker and matches continue into the night); and passably exciting (Twenty20, in which batsmen are pretty much obliged to try to belt every ball out of the park). An odd thing about the IPL is that, until recently, Indians didn't much like Twenty20 and were leading the way in trying to jazz up one-day cricket. Then India won last year's inaugural...