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...middle of the night, tuned in to radio commentary of Ashes Test matches from England. On the other side of the room, my older brother would be listening, too, though his love of the game led him a further step: he would diligently record all the batsmen's scores and bowlers' figures in a little book offered for just that purpose by the Australian broadcaster. For two Sydney boys with cricket in their blood, this was about as good...
After Haviland went all seven innings in the opener, Walsh used an arsenal of hurlers in the nightcap. When freshman Eric Eadington seemed to lack his customary sharpness—Dartmouth loaded the bases in the top of the second on two hit batsmen and a walk—Walsh turned to sophomore Adam Cole, a converted reliever whose power fastball had worked the Crimson out of some late-inning jams in recent weeks...
...mean nothing to you, but it means a lot to me. Warne is an Australian cricketer, one of the greatest in the history of the game and a revolutionary in his own way. In cricket there are two types of bowlers: fast and slow. The former tend to blast batsmen out with pace, the latter to bamboozle them, spinning the ball off the pitch so as to deceive and induce batsmen into a false shot. In the 1970s and '80s, when I was a kid growing up in Australia, my friends and I idolized the quickies, most of them from...
...From the early 1990s, Australia's batsmen realized that many of the fast-scoring techniques used in one-day cricket could be applied to Tests, and as a group routinely began to amass 350-plus runs a day. Other countries copied them, to the point where the drawn match?the somnolent one, anyway, that blight on the game?has all but vanished. As Australia rose, then soared, so did the notion that Test teams should have a coach to complement the captain in finetuning their performance. Between 1986 and '96, Bob Simpson was crucial in taking Australia from the bottom...
...There's no missing the graying of Ponting's team, dubbed "Dad's Army" by former England great Ian Botham. Selectors have persisted, for example, with opening batsmen Hayden, 35, and Langer, 36, even though the batting reserves are strong. "I think in the last few years the selectors have failed to make the hard calls," says Lawson, who believes Hayden shouldn't have been picked for the last Ashes tour, when he struggled until he notched a century in the last Test. But even that didn't impress Lawson. "It was a self-centered hundred," he says. "When...