Word: wickets
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...hand. Benaud was wearing a pink tie. Beazley was right, the bloke's in the closet. And he'd know. No wonder Kimbo bought a house in Sydney. Punter won the toss. We scored 676 for 8 on a belter; Langer and Ponting put on 350 for the second wicket. Magilla and I didn't even get to bat. Something's going on here...
...thursday, 4 january: The idiot selectors went for three spinners. There's no turn. Strauss and Trescothick, free of my taunts, put on 400 for the first wicket; there's rain forecast for the next week. Great for the farmers. Who cares? Might as well turn into a tsunami. England will retain the Ashes. Sod them...
...strongest English side for at least 20 years. The mind games will intensify on June 19, when the two countries contest an early installment of a limited-overs tournament. The main event starts next month at Lord's, venue for the first of five Tests. McGrath needs one wicket to take his tally in Tests to 500, a mark reached by only three other bowlers. If he can manage 21 wickets for the series, he'll pass the West Indian Courtney Walsh as the game's most prolific fast bowler. Though vanity is frowned upon in Australian cricket, there...
...world works, and built a children's home in Calcutta. By 1999, when he took over as Australian captain, he was one of the game's greats. His batting was never as flamboyant as West Indian Brian Lara's nor as sublime as Indian Sachin Tendulkar's, but his wicket had become the most prized in cricket. Other batsmen could take a bowling attack apart, but Waugh, using both bat and niggling remarks (or what he liked to call "mental disintegration"), would bludgeon it and then bury it to make sure it never bothered his team again...
...respectful silence maintained by the crowd—unknown in the world of American sports—is broken by the occasional seemingly incoherent and very British announcements. “Wicket looks a beauty,” observes the announcer. Despite the beautiful wicket, a member of the Indian team makes a slip-up on the field. However, a group of physics concentrators in the corner downplay the fumble, noting that “Even [Nobel Prize winner Richard] Feynman made mistakes...