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Category Archives: Cricket
One Song, Many Heavens: “Jerusalem” and the Hero Systems It Holds Together
At Edgbaston on the first morning of an Ashes Test, the brass section of the Barmy Army finds the tune before the players reach the middle. A man in a replica shirt, three pints in by eleven, plants his feet … Continue reading
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Not Cricket: Bradman, Bodyline, and the Hero Systems of a Sacred Game
The ball lifts off a length, and Bill Woodfull (1897-1965) turns his shoulder into it because there is nowhere else to put his body. It strikes him over the heart. He drops his bat and bends across the crease, one … Continue reading
Filling the Silence: Henry Blofeld and the End of a Broadcasting Tradition
Henry Blofeld (b. 1939) is an English institution and a model for my life. His career runs across the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and it touches the decline of the English landed gentry, the … Continue reading
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Israel vs Iran Reimagined As A Test Cricket Match
“Good morning, folks, and welcome to the Geopolitical Oval, where the pitch is as volatile as a live news ticker. This strip for the Israel-Iran Test match is a beast—hard as a bunker, dry as a sanctions list, and cracking … Continue reading
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The Economist: Why cricket and America are made for each other
From The Economist: When the AirHogs stadium reopens in the spring it will be the first home of Major League Cricket (mlc). All the men were of Indian descent. They and their partners, who include the ceos of Microsoft and … Continue reading
Racial Slur Gets White Cricketer Banned For Life
REPORT: Controversial batsman Mark Vermeulen has been banned from all cricket by Zimbabwe Cricket for engaging in a racist tirade on social media site Facebook in which he denigrated black Zimbabweans by referring them as “apes”. In a statement released … Continue reading
The World Cup Of Cricket
I tell a friend in Australia via Skype: “We thrashed the Poms by a hundred runs. I was telling everyone at shul about it but they thought I was a dago. They couldn’t care less.” Mate: “I thought everyone in … Continue reading
Can Indians Be The Best In The World At Something?
Indians are not a formidable people. About 60,000 British soldiers ruled the continent for decades. In this forthcoming ESPN documentary on Indian cricket batsman Sachin Tendulkar, an Indian sports commentator says that “Tendulkar shows we can be the best in … Continue reading