That way NZC can schedule the ODIs back to back in the holiday season when everyone is suitably dumbed down.

For example, after Napier NZ has 15 ODIs and 4 T20 matches on the…

I didn't know John Drake, I don't remember him as a player, in fact, I probably couldn't have picked him out of a line up. But I did know his voice

Actually, I feel kind of terrible about John Drake, who in our household was more routinely known as 'Cyclops'…

Hey can somebody explain the chucking thing?

I read that article a few times and couldn't work out what the fuss was. People do get righteous about chucking.

"Dan won the toss, again; just adding to his impressive tossing ability!"

At one point I pointed at the stumps and said, "Have a go at those." Edwards replied, "I'm having too much fun to worry about them." Ok, cool!

Now, that's what sledging should be all about. Not quite Oscar Wilde, but better than the everage questioning of parentage.

Hey can somebody explain the chucking thing?

It's also sort of inline with my thesis that sports exists by codifying strange and often impractical things. I mean if there is a game that exists where you can't throw the ball in the direction that you want to go, or one…

I was worried I might have to find four horses for the quartering.

Drake was also a voice I found remarkably sensible from the Rugby commentary box. He actually made me understand scrums sometimes.

As for the cricket, kind of a pity they've had awful weather. The…

Hey can somebody explain the chucking thing?

Normally, I'd have thought you bowl an illegal delivery, you get no-balled for it, end of story. Why is chucking considered so bad?

It's not as if he twatted a fielder with the bat.

Matthew Sinclair is, um, a bit fiery sometimes. I…

Willem Dafoe may make the advertisement less aweful, but there's nothing he can do to change the product....

Case in point

Bracewell's blog would also be interesting, but for different reasons.

IOB is being cross-posted to Cricinfo too, but he's still going on his blogspot account too. It's not clear what the 'approval' process is – apparantly the Black Caps' manager was reading his blogs before publiciation in Australia.

I think…

Ian O'Brien has done something no one else has been able to, he made interested in cricket.

I was listening to O'Brien getting the hell bounced out of him that day and thinking,wow, can't wait to read his blog about this.

Normally, I'd have thought you bowl an illegal delivery, you get no-balled for it, end of story. Why is chucking considered so bad?

It's not as if he twatted a fielder with the bat.