tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76171104113082883812024-03-18T20:48:31.349+11:00The Wasted AfternoonsRussell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-22667557581169490962015-01-04T20:53:00.000+11:002015-01-04T20:53:07.006+11:00Cricket advertising - an update<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll avoid starting this one by promising that I'll take care of this blog a little better in 2015, because I know I won't. I managed 53 separate posts on here in 2013 (how on earth did I have that much time on my hands?) and then just a paltry 5 last year as work and life tended to eat into my novelty-picture-scanning time. In those few posts I did last year I made hollow promises about being more prolific, because obviously it's vital that the world gets all of the nude Shane Watson photos it thirsts for. This time I make no guarantees. I'm sure you'll all survive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I'll cut to the chase. When I started this blog I had a very vague plan to cover the visual side of cricket - marketing, advertising, sponsorship and all associated guff - but that fell by the wayside last year and I didn't actually cover the world of cricket-themed print ads at all in 2014. Not one single update. So this is my attempt to redress. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've culled these from the magazines that piled up over the course of the last 12 months (there might be a bit of late-2013 overlap but I've tried to avoid that), both Australian and UK titles, and though the results are probably underwhelming when you compare them to the glory days of 70s and 80s ads, they do at least - in my humble opinion - tell a bit of a story about the state of the game itself (plus magazine publishing; those poor bastards) in Australia and England.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, I'll go further than "underwhelming". They're bloody awful. Print is dying and with it the willingness of advertisers to devote money or creative energy to the promotion of their products to print readers (ie. old people and saddos like me). There is no Tony Greig in his jocks here, friends (which would be a good thing, in case you're confused). So take that as fair warning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It can't be an easy job to put together a profitable sports magazine these days, but you'd assume the New Balance marketing manager was pretty happy with their day's work when this one hit the news stands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently Brett Lee was in the top 5 earners in Australian cricket last year, though I find it a little hard to imagine that he and Michael Hussey are still among the most marketable to the tween demographic at whom this and other Big Bash-themed ads are aimed. I could be wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">No cricketer is more suited to spruiking HD curved TVs than David Warner. If they ever invent one where players can literally jump out of the screen into living tooms and punch on with viewers, Warner should also be their go-to man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">This is a bit NQR, mind. Are those teenagers at the front or just really small adults?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Not my finest bit of scanning, but some more New Balance action for Aaron Finch. Glenn Maxwell cops a lot of stick about about his various commercial successes perhaps outweighing his on-field ones, but the thought of Aaron Finch 'changing the game' in a pair of whites is perhaps a stretch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">"You've just gotta love having to promote a triangular series months before the event, heightening the chance that your poster stars have lost or quit their jobs by the time the thing rolls around." How much do you want to bet that the congo-line of dress-up wankers at the bottom were added at the last minute at the insistence of whichever tragic figure is in charge of getting bums on seats at ODIs these days?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Heart you, Glenn. Chin up buddy. Maxwell is getting such a ridiculously hard time off the press at the moment. Out of form? Yes. The figurehead of an entire generation of rapidly-boiling evil? Pack it in guys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But...just as I was wrapping all of this up my friend Geoff Clarke, bless him, arrived at the door of my office armed not only with tales of the 1960-61 West Indians he'd seen at Brisbane during the Tied Test or the time years later when he'd driven Wes Hall and Gary Sobers around Melboune in his cab, but also two boxes of vintage cricket magazines he'd kindly and correctly recognized as the kind of thing I'd be interested in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1978 there was nothing that got people excited like the sight of David Colley. Well, perhaps not if you were a New South Wales selector, but you get my point. This was the era in which the Blues picked second-gamer Andrew Hilditch as their skipper. Colley wasn't a fan of that call, needless to say. What is it that I love about this advert though?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I once saw a Victorian shirt from the <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/blank/engine/series/367429.html" target="_blank">1984-85 summer</a> listed on eBay and didn't bid on it because it was too small to wear, the kind of self-control I can no longer boast. I'd buy it ten times over now. After all, it might have been worn by 2-game <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/5762.html" target="_blank">wicketkeeper Phillip Hyde</a>. What was I thinking? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That Cricinfo post seemed to strike a chord with a few people, so I hereby present you with every coloured uniform in Australian domestic one-day cricket history, starting from their inception for the 1982-83 McDonalds Cup, right up until the soon-to-be-completed and less evocatively-named 'Matador Barbecues One-Day Cup.' </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've brought a maniac spirit to this post, in which I'd intended to include one example of each shirt but then let it get way out of hand. Still, if you've got a photo of Scott Prestwidge, it's rude not to share it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At some point I may update this and provide some more detail on the designers and the competitions themselves, but for now let's just stick with pictures because that's what you're really here for. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One final word of warning; uniform designers were dead to me after about 1999 and you might feel the same way, so the final 15 years at the bottom was something of a chore for me and I'm sure it will be for you other purists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally, a little bit of perspective; even amid the technicolour incursion of Packer's World Series Cricket, this is what domestic one-day uniforms looks like in 1979-80, when Victoria won the McDonalds Cup:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you were worried that the family of former Tasmanian all-rounder David Smith had no reminder of his 14 List A games of the early 80s, fear not. Here's a photo of him being bowled by Ian Callen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a quite wonderful shot because it captures three of the undisputed legends of Australian cricket; Marsh, Lillee and The Don. Don O'Connor, that is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Western Australian Peter Clough was unsuccessful in this attempt to catch Dirk Wellham off his own bowling, but the folks who put together the Wide World of Sports yearbook saw fit to include a frame-by-frame sequence of his shambolic effort, which was nice. Many of the photos in this post are from those annuals, as current/former owners would recognize. The rest are from the brilliant but short-lived large-format version of 'Australian Cricket' magazine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The ACB stick with a winner and go with more or less the same shirts again, though Western Australia switch to an all-yellow design and the contrast-coloured pockets are only seen on the trousers of players who aren't issued the new kit. Again, no-one seems to particularly care that players are often wearing the wrong shirts and trousers. What a crazy, mixed up world it was in the late 80s. You just shake your head at the insanity of it all. Just mental.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The contrast colour moves to the sleeves in a kind of wing effect, but despite the minimalist designs there are significant uniform changes. The Vics ditch the powder blue for good, while South Australia and Tassie lose the yellow, replacing them with navy blue and red, respectively. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, I think the pics before with logos on the shoulders must have been mislabeled. Everyone has them in this set. Again, I'm not a huge fan of this design but it's better than the muck that passes for one-day uniforms these days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cannot tell you how excited 13-year-old me was about the inclusion of the Canberra Comets for this season of the Mercantile Mutual Cup. I still have a home-taped VHS copy of their game against South Australia to prove it. The uniforms were the same again, with the addition of Canberra's magnificent blue and yellow strip. Again, if anyone has one they want to sell...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And duly took out another title. John Buchanan is lurking in the background and I love the way Paul Jackson is giving it the basketball-style single finger for the amount of titles he's won. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally, we grind our way to the finish line and the inaugural Matador Barbecues One-Day Cup. The only thing dodgier than these shirts is Nic Maddinson's hair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Swan was very generous with his time and these albums in helping me write this thing (as were Greg Smyth and Stuart Kranzbuhler from Gray Nicolls), so I hope I successfully relayed the impression of Swan as a generous and engaging cricket identity. Someone told me that Swan was a "cricket tragic" but there is nothing tragic about his love for the game (he still coaches juniors, sells bats through his shop and runs The Crusaders) and that enthusiasm certainly helped propel me through the process of scanning all of these pics, many of which I'd like to have included were it not for space constraints. Mike Hytner from the Guardian sports desk was a gem for handling everything I dumped on him as it was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So here's some more gold from the archives. I've tried and label things accurately but keep in mind I didn't have Swan next to me, so I may have mixed things up on occasion. They've also just been pasted in alphabetical order as they appeared in my scans folder, rather than in any kind of logical sequence. There's quite a few of them so I'm sure you'll indulge me in that. Nearly all pics (bar the adverts) will be from one of two locations; the original Gray Nicolls factory in Robertsbridge, Sussex, and the first Australian factory in Mordialloc, south of Melbourne, which Swan set up and ran from 1973 onward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My only regret with the original piece was that we couldn't include more pictures because no cricket artifact benefits more from the sensation of looking and touching than the Scoop, as the comments section of the article indicated. Cricketers of a certain age just <i>love</i> this bat and always will. I spent days on this piece but I feel like it was worth it in the end.</span><br />
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This is the Scoop's first appearance in the press - the Australian version of The Cricketer, Feb 1975. Swan reckons that he kept the first one used in a Test (by Chappelli) until Chappelli asked for it back to go in a raffle or charity auction. If the current owner is reading, I'm sure Swan would love to hear from you.</div>
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Poetry in motion from Chappelli. The minute I looked at this, I realise that a similar shot was later used on the cover of 'Chappelli', his first autobiography. That pic is from the same angle and in the same game though slightly different to this one.</div>
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This would be the makings of a very early Scoop, possibly while Swan was over at Robertsbridge in 1973. I should add that all of these memories would be lost without Swan's photos and compulsion to keep and document everything about the bat-making process.</div>
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Stacks of new blades at Roberstbridge, early 1970s.</div>
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This was an early promotional flyer given to retailers and customers to explain the science behind the Scoop's famous 'perimeter weighting'. Myths still abound mind you. It's not a terribly complicated concept but is must have just seemed kooky back in the mid-70s.</div>
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Willow drying out at Robertsbridge, Sussex, early 1970s.</div>
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Another one from Robertsbridge. What a quaint setting in which such radical innovation took place. That is John Newbery, maker of the original Scoop, on the left.</div>
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Willow being stored at Robertsbridge.</div>
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Around the time that the Scoop first launched, Gray Nicolls was also producing the 'Wisden' brand gear as well. This shot would be from Robertsbridge, because the Wisden never found its way out to Oz as far as I can tell.</div>
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This shot is a gem. It confirmed Swan's suspicion that the first 'Twin Scoop' was actually trialled via the Wisden brand. The one to the left is similar to Duncan Fearnley's 'see-through' bat, as modelled by Bob Willis, but Swan said the round holes were a fizzer and the bats would break easily. They ended up giving it a miss and sticking with the conventional Scoop.</div>
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This is a page from a 1984 Gray Nicolls Australia catalogue, featuring Swan, his off-sider Tony Fletcher and Victorian cricket great, the late John Scholes. There was a price list as well but it contained cost pricing so thought it would be bad form to upload. The cat's probably out of the bag 30 years later, mind you.</div>
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1989 catalogue featuring the Dynadrive my oldest brother had, probably in the same year now that I think about it. I wasn't allowed to use it, obviously, so made do with a Kashmir willow Powerspot, as seen below.</div>
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Stacks of willow and bats, Mordialloc, mid 1970s.</div>
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Gray Nicolls Australia factory at Mordialloc, circa 1970s.</div>
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Unloading precious cargo.</div>
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Post-Scoop. The principles of bat-making on display here have not really changed that much, which was the surprising thing I learned in my visit to Gray Nicolls new facility in Cheltenham, 10 mins from Mordialloc.</div>
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This is Swan in his office / memorabilia cave at Gray Nicolls, 1979. Over the years he amassed an amazing memorabilia collection, much of which has since been donated to the MCC Museum at the MCG. He did bring in one of Clive Lloyd's Scoops for me to hold though, which was very kind. It really did have five grips on it, I assure you.</div>
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This shot of John Newbery was taken during a visit he made to Australia to check in on the Australian manufacturing and assist Swan. I guess Newbery didn't leave GN on the greatest of terms when he went out on his own, but he was recalled with great fondness by Swan and rightly ranks among the greatest of all bat-makers. </div>
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Mordialloc, 1979. Swan is with Tony Fletcher, the man who had to race down the Nepean Highway to replace David Hookes' bat right as the latter went out to face the Vics in a Shield game at the Junction Oval. Hookes ripped the plastic cover off and proceeded to blast them all over the place in one of his finest first class innings. There's some press clippings a little further down. </div>
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1974 pricelists for Gray Nicolls Australia in its first 12 months of operation.</div>
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Hookesy relaxes after using the 'Hookes Hurricane' that Tony Fletcher had run though the gates with as the late, great South Australian was about to head out to bat.</div>
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Willow at Robertsbridge.</div>
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Stock room at Robertsbridge, aka Aladdin's Cave.</div>
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The J.S. Wright and Sons truck delivering prime willow.</div>
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Len Newbery, John's father and once a partner in the Gray Nicolls business, can be seen at the right of this photo.</div>
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An old 'with compliments' slips from Len Newbery to Swan.</div>
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Yes, these are the original Scoop drawings by John Newbery. Swan was even more excited than me when he came across these in his albums. It was a terrific afternoon looking through his stuff. </div>
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These were taken back to Oz for the local staff to use as a template for making the Scoop.</div>
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An article on Swan from The Cricketer, February 1987.</div>
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Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-38759478844815748532014-04-28T15:59:00.001+10:002014-04-28T15:59:47.236+10:00Images of Boon<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This will make far more sense when you read my Joy of Six post over at the Guardian tomorrow. These are just some Boon images I wouldn't be able to link to without uploading them myself ("People aren't uploading images of David Boon playing in the 1978-79 Gillette Cup?" you ask in amazement... I know, right?)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A couple of weeks back I was looking through an old cricket magazine while on the hunt for a Ray Robinson article and came across this photo of Victoria's 1979-80 Sheffield Shield winning side, and with this season's Shield season coming to a conclusion, I had an idea that seemed totally reasonable at the time. 'Why don't I resurrect the old blog by doing a Shield final post?' I said to myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, it ended up consuming far more time than I care to acknowledge, but starting from the 1982-83 season (which was the first that the Sheffield Shield champion was decided using the final), I found photos of most of the winning sides. All of these images were scanned from magazines and books (in regards to the latter: mainly those Channel Nine yearbooks that I'd remembered being pretty dire but are in actual fact pretty great for the purposes of documenting the visual history of Australian domestic cricket; I now wish they still existed - thanks Kerry).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The same magazine that had the Vics photo also had this picture (also from 1979-80) of Ian Chappell wicket-keeping, which I tweeted at the time and which people seemed to love. So here it isagain; Chappelli appealing for the wicket of 1-Test wonder Jeff Moss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But without further ado or rambling, here are the Sheffield Shield winners of the "Final" era. Well, the ones I could find, anyway. The spotlight is no longer directed at Shield cricket in the way it should be and visual reminders of these great and significant encounters in the history and development of cricket in Australia are pretty scarce online. So I'm trying to right that wrong. I've also added in shots from other games where I've found them because let's face it, who doesn't want to see a photo of Mick Taylor playing for Tasmania?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<a href="http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/43/43305.html" target="_blank">>>Scorecard here<<</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, what you see below is not Kim Hughes winning a Shield, as you might tell from his facial expression. This is Kim Hughes, losing captain, handing the Shield over to Rick McCosker and his New South Wales teammates. In a low-scoring game with no centuries, opener McCosker made 71 and 44. Otherwise, it was a game noted for the spat between Rod Marsh and Mike Whitney after the young quick was a little over-exuberant in his wicket celebrations, as you'll see below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New South Wales enjoyed this win so much they decided to don their McDonalds Cup uniforms. Sorry about the scan on this one; I hate it when a really good photo is spread over two pages. They had no foresight about blogging in 1986. New South Wales won this Shield merely be drawing the final against the luckless Queenslanders, for whom Kepler Wessels made 166, Glenn Trimble 112, and NSW were 8-258 chasing 276 when stumps were drawn. Mike Whitney took 6-65 off 34 overs in the first-innings. Nice one Whit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, so yes, Victoria finally broke the decade of monotony and prized the Sheffield Shield away from NSW and WA, but more than anything that I love about this photo (and it is one of my all-time favorite cricket photos) is the sour expression on Geoff Lawson's face as Simon O'Donnell lifts the shield. I think I want it tattooed across my entire back. Victoria's 8-wicket win in a low-scoring encounter came thanks to Jamie Siddons (124*) and Wayne Phillips (91*) with a 212-run 4th innings partnership, which carried the Vics to their target of 239.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That might be a good thing for Tassie fans because their team was shat on from a great height in this final, losing by an innings and 61 runs. Michale Bevan and Brad McNamara made tons for the Blues and Tassie fell in a heap in their second dig, bowled out for 126 as everyone's 2nd favourite bean pole lefty, Phil Alley, took a Michelle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, I guess there are no such thing as spoilers here so surprise surprise, Queensland won their first Shield in 1994-95 and Allan Border could finally die in peace. They did it in style too, thumping South Australia by an innings and 101 runs. There were hundreds for Love and Barsby and 5 wickets for Carl Rackemann. Amid all the wild celebrations, Australian selectors went a bit mental and sent big Mocka to the West Indies with the Aussies, another historic breakthrough win to occur that year. I guess the most important aspect of this final though was that Paul Nobes made a ton. I'll tell my grandkids about that.</span></div>
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Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-68933260516872696812013-12-09T00:12:00.000+11:002014-07-29T14:43:12.948+10:00The Modernist Bob Simpson <h4>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having promised myself I'd get to bed early and have a decent sleep tonight, I made the mistake of picking up the November 1970 copy of Australian Cricket that was sitting on top of a pile on my desk. It threw me into a strange, slightly disturbing time warp.</span></h4>
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Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-40892475649491500502013-12-07T16:01:00.001+11:002013-12-07T16:01:57.370+11:00Cricket's Unsung Hero<h4>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a real pleasure to interview Rob Moody, aka "robelinda2" about the tremendous service he provides for cricket lovers with his YouTube uploads. I feel like <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/697347.html" target="_blank">this piece over at Cricinfo</a> was the least I could do given the hours and hours of enjoyment his work has provided me. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I soon discovered via Twitter, the love out there for Rob is intense though hardly surprising. He'd get a motorcade around the MCG at the Boxing Day Test if it were up to me. Aside from anything else he's just a lovely bloke with an indefatigable love of the game. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also have some reflections on the new Adelaide Oval <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/dec/06/a-new-era-for-the-adelaide-oval" target="_blank">over at The Guardian</a>. I'm a traditionalist when it comes to cricket grounds, but I'm well aware of the realities of the situation. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other than that, the Guardian OBO is keeping me too busy for lengthy reflections, but Mitch is bowling alright, isn't he?</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With my girlfriend overseas for the next three weeks I'm under under a kind of tacit agreement to not even set foot inside <a href="http://www.mossgreen.com.au/view-auctions/catalog/id/41/?page=3&url=%2Fview-auctions%2F%3Fstatus%3Dbidding_upcoming" target="_blank">the upcoming Mossgreen Sports Auction</a>, but a number of items have caught my eye.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been busy stressing out about making my Guardian OBO debut today (it didn't go too badly all things considered; I might get asked back on Day 5), so haven't written anything today. Here's something I prepared earlier for The Cordon:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">>>> <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/690209.html" target="_blank">A Love Letter to the ABC Cricket Guide</a> <<<</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See the young Lions roar, except for Ricardo Ellcock, who will manage to get himself injured a month before the tour and never get near international cricket again. Love Dev's glasses. Also possibly the last we see of Keith Medlycott for this blog post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1990 - Box Briefs</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I can't say I've ever bought a jock strap in the first place, though the club I played for in England had an amusing tradition of playing "jockstrap football" on the ground during rain delays. That might be a Hampshire thing, I'm not sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Robin, the good thing about this is that in 20 years time, absolutely no-one will be laughing at this photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's pretty fashionable to hate Michael Vaughn in Australia these days but not many Australian cricketers of his era would have enough self-deprecation to appear in this ad. Can you imagine Matthew Hayden agreeing to this?</span><br />
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Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-66681182903918399972013-08-20T21:26:00.000+10:002013-08-20T21:26:31.153+10:00The History of English Cricket Advertising Part 2 - The 1980s<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something I should have said in my introductory post yesterday is that I think these ads give an interesting kind of alternative visual history to cricket and the way it is consumed. They also provide an insight into the hierarchy of cricket stardom and the trajectory of certain high-profile careers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As far as the English game is concerned, I love the way that ads, for instance, have so often sought to capitalise on and leverage off the honour of the English Test captaincy, which obviously passed from hand to hand with alarming regularity in certain eras. The 80s is no exception, as you'll see below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a kind of incurable fetish for obscure and exotic cricket helmets of days gone by (see me at the twitter hashtag #helmettalk for more of this nonsense) so this one jumped out at me. If you were putting that thing on to face Michael Holding in 1980, were you not a little bit concerned that that perspex would shatter into blade-like pieces against your face? Looks NQR to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bukta and John Arlott are two names we don't hear enough these days. If you're going for a text-based slogan, advertising stooges, this is the kind of gear we're after. It's a bit corny but there are no puns and it shows at least a modicum of cricket knowledge. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no possible risk of being done for false advertising with this approach. Minimal to the point of mild autism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is perhaps an exception to the "no Puns" rule; if the player featured in the ad is suitably iconic, go for your life. I had to stitch two scans together for this one, hence the crease. And anyway, if you can any complaints, seriously, you're even sadder than me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before there was the Nike Air Jordan there was the Graham Gooch Cotton Oxford. Are any of my readers still getting around in a pair of these? If so, photos to me or it never happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Down at the John Edrich Bowling Machine factory, we're re-purposing all manner of medieval weaponry into cricket coaching aids. Call by and take a look at our range." Seriously, I swear I saw one of these in the background of a Game of Thrones episode.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1981 - Gavaskar Cricket Boots</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry, I'm shooting fish in a barrel here, I know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1981 - Gunn & Moore Galaxy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two main things I love about this ad: (1) The "Galaxy" allusion to interplanetary/space travel, and (2) that they've gone with the cross-section technical diagram. Completely unnecessary and naff, but awesome at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cricket history is a rich mine of brilliantly awful trophies. I really need to do a post just on them (remember that Elephant one Australia won for an ODI series in South Africa?). This fits into that category. I'm not even going to elaborate on what it looks like to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I genuinely believe that John Snow wrote this ad himself. If not, everyone involved needs to be fired. I think he missed a trick too: surely with a name like Snow you'd be angling at the lucrative skiing holiday market?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one didn't make it's way to Australian shores so I am going to have to trust the judgement of UK readers to confirm that it is inferior to cricket's Hall of Fame board game, 'Test Match'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kid in this photo looks pretty stoked to be having his caricature signed by Bob Woolmer, but to be honest, I can't take my eyes off the majesty of that English cable-knit sweater. Of all the ills that have befallen cricket in the last decade; that abomination of an English Test pullover must be more galling. To me, anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next time you're complaining about TV cricket coverage that is coming to you live via satellite, pause and think about a time when we were thrilled to just see a primitive scorecard on our screens. Actually, because I am a very sad individual, Ceefax features prominently in my good memories of my time living in England.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The further and further I got into my magazine collection, the more insane I found it that so many cricketers have had their own shoe line. These ones look quite uncomfortable though, don't they?</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1982 - Gray Nicolls Scoop</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another bizarre cricket trophy but also some of the best facial hair in cricket history. Gin does seem a fairly appropriate fit for a wicket-keeping award though, I cannot fault them on that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1982 - John Arlott LPs and Cassettes</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Charity shops throw up some interesting finds in the records section from time to time, but it would make the day of any cricket fan to come across this one. I'd find it hard not to give it a spin at parties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just going back to helmet-talk for a minute, I like the Robocop chic of this one. I think it's just the photo making it look opaque but I find it hard not to imagine that this is a batting robot, born to destroy bowling attacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1982 - Bob Taylor for Mitre</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The thought that the equipment shown here could give you an unfair advantage is a classic case of a product looking retrospectively hilarious and out-dated, like the computers used by Sandra Bullock in The Net.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1982 - Barry Wood for Niagara</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Geez Baz, with friends like those, who needs enemies right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Surely if the 1970s told us anything, it's that you've got to be wary following Mike Denness to Australia. I like that in the 80s these tours involved actually playing games of cricket. One look at Thomo's tour group during this 2013 Ashes series would suggest they'd need to have a defibrillator on hand for that kind of physical exertion, and that would just be to wake Thomo up at his seat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Say what you like about Beefy, god knows Ian Chappell does, but there's no denying the bad-arse appeal of playing a reverse-sweep in your ads. Extra points for batting in a long-sleeve sweater sans headwear. No spot-fixing bookie would even attempt to make that happen during an international match these days, it's too far-fetched. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mostly avoided ads for books because I will cover them in some form at a later date, but I enjoyed this one. Richie looks like he's up to something slightly dodgy. Did Daphne take the photo? It's Richie set to "seductive", for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Hand shaped gloves for hand shapes hands"? That cliche of 1980s advertising executive being drug-abusers with ponytails is probably not entirely accurate, but output like this hardly refutes it. Randall actually looks a bit like he's partaken himself with that grin, no?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1984 - David Gower for Scholl</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is something a bit Alan Partridge about signing an endorsement deal with Scholl. It's a brand I've literally never discussed with anyone other than my parents. Actually, my Mum loves David Gower...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, fair play to Beefy for letting them use an image like this in an ad. If this photo became a marketing go-to, David Warner wouldn't even need to turn up for the IPL to be cashing massive cheques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1984 - Larry Gomes and Gordon Greenidge for Symonds</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could try and come up with an elaborate explanation for including this, but sometimes you just want to have a photo of Larry Gomes on your blog. This is a non-judgement zone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1984 - Viv Richards for Duncan Fearnley</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Viv's defection from Stuart Surridge to Duncan Fearnley probably didn't have a great deal of impact on his ability to obliterate a bowling attack, but I still think he looked way cooler wielding the SS Jumbo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1984 - Bob Willis for the Wisden Cricket Monthly Wine Club</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'You were the tall, leggy blonde walking away at a brisk pace, I was the pompous, beady-eyed gent offering you a second glass of Cabernet.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Half the BATtle! Get it? Because it's a bat, and the letters in 'bat' are also in the word 'battle'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Congratulations, you now have an honorary advertising doctorate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"England's captain leads the way...for now."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Meet 3 great performers - Mike Gatting and his balls."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a sucker for any ad with romantic cricket imagery and there is non better than the change-room montage. Love those timber veneer walls, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you look at this, you really have to make the choice not to ponder how many runs Viv has scored in his game of 'pocket cricket', don't you? On a more general level, I just like to imagine that he's on the way to a "white party" with Andy Roberts and Gordon Greenidge in this photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1987 - The Gray Nicolls Dynadrive</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just like the year 1996 conjures an image of Ricky Ponting's terrible goatee, the Gray Nicolls Dynadrive is just pure 1987. Us Aussies didn't have the Union Jack on ours though, obviously.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess the people at Mitre would say "it was a different time in the 80s, you see." But it wasn't and people were clearly appalled enough by this ad for the back-tracking follow-up to occur in the next month's issue of Wisden Cricket Monthly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have an interesting anecdote about buying pitch covers from Chris Cowdrey, feel free to hit the comments section.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is proper 1980s ad, this one. Steve Waugh in that rugby-style 'World Championship of Cricket' shirt, John Emburey, terrible typography; I love it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Thanks guys, I'm rapt to be endorsing this V12 bat, I mean, that's bigger than a V6 and a V8, right? That's literally taking it PAST eleven. Can't wait to pick up my bats. Oh, what is Viv's bat going to be called?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No matter how dodgy a financial planning business looked, I'm pretty sure they'd be able to swindle me within minutes if they sent out some b-grade professional cricketers to get my signature.</span><br />
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Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-66241428476364475112013-08-19T21:17:00.001+10:002013-08-23T22:06:11.906+10:00The History of English Cricket ads - Part 1<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier this year, I took a stroll down memory lane and had a look at the visual history of Australian cricket advertising. To be more specific, I rifled through my Australian cricket magazine collection and just about wore out my scanner in the process.</span><br />
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Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-52423506396981902442013-08-06T12:11:00.001+10:002013-08-06T12:11:54.826+10:00Some cause for Australian cheer<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work is keeping me too busy to blog at the moment but in the meantime, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/aug/06/ashes-australia-cricket-team-positives" target="_blank">here's something on some Australian positives that I put together over at the Guardian.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the meantime, what do we all think of Watto turning the DRS sledging tables on KP last night? Is this this an all-rounder shaped pot calling the kettle black if ever you've seen it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I guess he and Warner are all too aware of the chasm in talent between themselves and KP; he's a handy man to get out cheaply.</span>Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-62956856694001219392013-07-21T09:57:00.002+10:002013-07-21T09:57:31.242+10:00Ashes Diary - 2nd Test - Day 3<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Big Sleep</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is one inevitability for the Australian cricket lover following a winter Ashes and that is that at some point you are going to fall asleep for a significant chunk of play. Day 3 was my turn. Having seen out the first two overs with a straight bat and watchful eye, I made the fatal error of assuming the sleeping position length-ways across the couch. Resistance was futile. A week with virtually no sleep caught up with me in one fuzzy, soundless moment and I was gone. For hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is an Ashes tradition I suppose and once I woke up again it got me thinking about other rituals I've observed over the years and the way that the 'away' Ashes series is an orientation point for so much of my life. The thrilling, joyful act of post-bedtime parental defiance in '89 and '93 gave way to deep, considered obsession in '97 and '01 before '05 and '09 co-existed variously with the nocturnal unpredictability of young adulthood and the incursion of serious relationships. This time around I feel prepared for a consistent, level-headed campaign. If only I can stay awake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In an ephemeral sense, I guess the ABC Cricket Guide is the most obvious Ashes tradition I observe. It made more sense in 1993 when I was huddled under my doona with the radio turned down low to avoid the attention of my parents. After all, I wasn't allowed a TV in my bedroom (my girlfriend and I now have more screens in our house than people by a multiple exceeding two), there was no twitter and (for me) no internet. It was a portal into the world of cricket, full of statistics and profiles; pictures and words that seemed to matter a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no justifiable reason to buy the ABC Cricket Guide these days. It's an anachronism and about the least essential cricket document I can think of. But without fail I still buy every single one of the things. The stats are out of date before it even hits the newsagent's shelves and everything written in it seems (even if it is only a month old) feels like it may as well have been uncovered from a stone tablet. But if it were ever to disappear I'd probably feel an immediate and crushing tightness in my chest and start silently weeping. I guess its like the English's own feelings towards publishing institutions like the Beano; they just want to know that it's still there, that there's some continuity in their life and that certain things will never change. The difference being that I still feel the need to buy the ABC Cricket Guide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the time I was still awake before play, I at least got to have a decent chuckle at Brendan Julian's assertion in the Fox Sports studio preview that Joe Root "sometimes looks like a number eight of something" and that he didn't get the fuss about the English youngster. In combination with Greg Blewett, BJ is to cricket analysis what Richard Wilkins is to film criticism. Unlike Dickie Wilks, BJ doesn't have Rotten Tomatoes or the back cover blurb of DVD's to fall back on though, so he ends up making such cack-handed statements on a regular basis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In actual fact Root's success in blunting Australia's tiring attack to the tune of 178 undefeated runs and counting on day three should not have come as a surprise to anyone. It might be an oversimplification of Australia's batting malaise to say that the country lacks young players who can make big hundreds (or hundreds of any kind, if we're honest) but it is also true. By comparison, this season alone, Root has made scores of 182, 236, 179, 104 and now 178 not out. Here's something even simpler to digest: he makes runs off the back foot. Not lap sweeps or switch hits or big show six-hitting from a firmly planted front foot, though he is probably capable of them as well, but from a bedrock of nudges and nurdles and drives and cuts off the back foot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's an important distinction to note. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Root's backwards movement is more of a shuffle than a stride, but boy is it effective. You could have feasibly lost count of the amount of times it resulted in a boundary being whipped away through cover or mid-wicket. Even the slightest shortening length from Australia's pace brigade was punished.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did Usman Khawaja notice that? Are Australian batsman preparing themselves for the specific requirements of Test cricket with such obvious diligence as the young Englishman? As Andrew Strauss noted after Root had passed his half-century, he didn't do anything "outrageously risky" during this innings. It wasn't a quick kill and it wasn't flash but by the end of the day, Australia had absorbed so many of Root's seemingly polite jabs that they were dizzied and bleeding, not from the lip but at their core.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the while that Root was piecing his opus together he had able support from both Tim Bresnan and The Terminator, Ian Bell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Ashton Agar showed up the Australian top order at Trent Bridge with his youthful batting exuberance and free-flowing simplicity, today Bresnan taught them a lesson of a different kind; that it's a wholly beneficial aim to just be the best possible version of yourself. Bresnan didn't biff or bash, as would be expected of a nightwatchman returning the next day. He batted exactly as he always tends to, with purpose and in sync with his partner. I noted before the match that Australia would have much preferred to be up against the spindly Steven Finn than a resilient competitor such as Bresnan and his innings today only reinforced that view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I mean, when David Gower is saying that an England batsman is out, he's stone cold. It was another howler though no more of a howler than the last one and the one before that. It is becoming a lot less excusable when those howlers are made with the assistance of fairly conclusive evidence though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of commentary, has Andrew Strauss said "grind them into the dirt" more times than any other human being in living memory? It's a verbal tic to rival Ian Chappell's stories about Les Favell. The thing is though, Cook's men barely need to engage in the cliche that Strauss suggests as Australia are most definitely digging themselves into a subterranean position all of their own accord. They're not far off hitting water, in fact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He's not actually in England, but it's a start. A couple of days back I joked about Fawad Ahmed being sent home to his couch but he's currently ripping through a Zimbabwean batting line-up for Australia A. Eight wickets and counting. Should Ashton Agar succumb to the injury that appears to be troubling him, Ahmed will enter the frame again along with Nathan Lyon. Some might even make a case for Glenn Maxwell though I won't be one of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, let the title of this post not be too misleading, for I'm returning to Australian shores in the next few days; this is just the first time I've been abroad for any part of an Ashes series so I thought I'd chronicle it, even if it's only the first Test . It's been...odd.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've previously mentioned that earlier this year, I made one of the worst time-planning mistakes of my life by having a four week US holiday overlap with the first Test of The Ashes. I mean, the holiday was never going to mean four weeks completely away from cricket, but the thought of 'missing' an Ashes Test of the English variety had filled me with overwhelming dread for months. Sad but true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the end, it's worked out fine thanks to the wonders of...ahem...'the internet' (those are 'I did something illegal and don't really feel bad about it' inverted commas) and my own willingness to rise at 5.45am for five days of my holidays. Add in the explosion of cricket-based twitter banter at this point of the cricket calendar and it's virtually like I'm in my lounge room. Except I'm not, I'm in someone else's lounge room on the lower east side of New York with a merry band of pot-smoking troubadours across the hall. I may actually be passively stoned; it smells as though they buy it by the kilo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, because I'm a complete loser and have lost all perspective on the importance of this game, my thoughts on the long flight over to the States turned at some point to the expectation of there being 'cricket moments' on this trip. I'd pre-explained the Ashes scheduling issue to my girlfriend and she was fine with me rising early (without her) and leaving our sight-seeing till later in the day during the first Test. But what other part would cricket play on this trip? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To start with, not a hell of a lot. In our first stop, New Orleans, there was no cricket talk and no cricket watching. Actually that's a lie; it was in New Orleans that I discovered Cricinfo have a live stream of certain one-day games that I don't get in Australia. I breathlessly relayed this information to my girlfriend as I was laying on our hotel bed with the laptop sitting on my chest and some kind of disgusting food in my hand. The look on her face suggested that the sight before her had just shot straight to the Top 5 of my least sexy moments with a bullet. You can't win them all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Chicago I was too busy having fun and shoving my face into deep-dish pizza to think about cricket a whole lot, but I did go to Wrigley Field to watch the Cubs. This ball park was later described to me by a Bostonian as "a bit of a dump", but a Bostonian would say that, wouldn't they? This particular Red Sox fan had an Irish family crest tattoo covering half his leg, so I shouldn't have expected anything less. But the day out at Wrigley was a great reminder of the way a sport can be modernised, professionalised and covered from every available angle yet still retain a lot of its old-world charm. Australian stadiums are becoming increasingly homogenized and drab in the last 15 years, so it was a nice reminder of the rich patina that comes from holding onto what you love about your sport. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, cricket did get a mention in Chicago. We were staying in a hotel so thoroughly buffeted by noise from the neighboring nightclub and fire station (yeah, thanks Cruisabout Travel Agency, you're real pro's) that we could not sleep. This frustrated my girlfriend immensely and it became so hard to get sleep that she eventually rolled over one night at about 3am and said, "Can you tell me a really boring cricket story that will send me to sleep?" My first thought was: 'I might not speak to you for the rest of the trip' but even in my sleep-deprived state, my inner smart-arse shone through; "Sorry, there's no such thing as a boring cricket story, you'll have to count sheep."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Washington DC I actually learned a thing or two about Twenty20 cricket and the Big Bash in particular. How did I learn this in DC? I went to a Washington Nationals baseball game, that's how. The next time Cricket Australia start with the lip service about wanting to get women and children to attend cricket games, I would point them in the direction of Ted Lerner's office</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A World War II veteran and real estate mogul, Lerner took control of this new franchise in 2006 and he had a decent enough job in front of him. In the absence of a Washington-based team for so long, baseball-loving locals mostly followed the Orioles of nearby Baltimore. I guess Lerner was also battling against the fact that DC being DC, its population is transient and fragmented. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet despite all this, the shiny new Nationals Stadium seems to be doing exactly what a stadium should do in a town like that; be completely and utterly appealing to every type of potential fan. It is a considerable achievement. There was a startling array of different and interesting food stands, bars of many shapes and sizes, a brilliant and slickly-run team merchandise store, and overlooking the beautifully-manicured field, a kind of sprawling beer garden that seemed to be the centre of the festivities. We de-camped there from our seats and never returned, it was so much fun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To put it bluntly, it was also the gayest crowd I have ever seen, quite an achievement for a sport that occupies similarly dowdy real estate in the American sporting calendar as cricket seems to do these days in Australia. This may have been due to the historic DOMA/Prop 8 verdicts coming down the following day, but you know when journalists resort to cliche and describe an event as possessing a "carnival atmosphere"? This was a carnival where people were also watching sport and spending lots of money on booze. James Sutherland and Mike McKenna should go and stand in that ball park for an entire week. They'll note a few things, like for instance:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- You can't sell merchandise to punters when you're encouraging them to wear fancy dress to the game. That is a gimmick that actually loses you credibility AND money, which is a remarkable failure really and the total opposite of what you should be achieving Also, make the merch interesting, unique and play upon the colourful heritage of short-form cricket. I lost count of the amount of fans walking around in retro-inspired baseball jerseys and t-shirts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Rather than pissing money against the wall creating a "lifestyle magazine" with wine reviews or badger-baiting tips or whatever is actually in that wanky publication of yours (yes people, Cricket Australia have tried their arm at a 'Gourmet Traveler vibe), how about you bring that desirable 'foodie' lifestyle to your actual event? "Oh, but the grounds have catering contracts in..." I don't care, get it right. You can't expect to win over women, kids, hipsters, yuppies and whoever else it is you want if you're offering them a bain marie full of extortionately priced Four 'n' Twenty pies. Get food trucks, get local breweries in, just do something because you currently offer the fickle "Do I really want to go to the cricket?" punter the following: a hard plastic seat and food from the high school tuck shop, circa 1987.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what I'm saying is, if you're trying to win non-cricket fans over, take a look at people who have done a similar thing and learn from it. It's not easy, but at least try.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving on to Boston, we took in Fenway Park and I've got to say, the experience was very similar to Wrigley Field (ie. brilliant and olde-worldy) with the added bonus of un-hinged fans and above-average buffalo wings (I haven't really mentioned what we ate at the Ball Parks because it is shameful and embarrassing to everyone concerned). This also sounds like I just dragged my girlfriend to baseball games; in actual fact we went to four games in 28 days, so I'm not a total monster. I don't even particularly like baseball, but the new Yankees Stadium aside, it is a fun day out. I'll give them that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspired by recently reading Don Watson's 'American Journey's' I decided we should pack a few books and get the train from Boston to New York rather than fly, as we had everywhere else. It was one of the better decisions we made on this trip. I mean, we didn't make friends with an old, wise local or chase a Hurricane like Don Watson would, but I was able to re-read Gideon Haigh's Sphere of Influence in the four hour trip past beautiful lakes and forest, thus probably making me the only person on that particular carriage reading about the power structure of 21st century cricket. I must have annoyed Cynthia by reading a few too many passages out to her because later in the trip, she woke up having had a dream in which she was playing cricket against myself and Gideon Haigh. I'm not making this up. She probably needs therapy, the poor woman. I'm even invading her subconscious with cricket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're now nearing the end of two weeks in mad, maddening and also pretty brilliant New York. Appropriately enough in the midst of an Ashes series, it has actually made me feel a bit English for the first time since...well, since the last time I came to New York. And not just because everyone in America assumes you're from England if you're an Australian. I've never been one for big crowds or loud, bad-mannered people, so obviously New York has presented itself as something of a challenge. It's a brash and bracing place, obviously. Aside from an Indian bloke in a deli who wanted to talk about Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey, they are also fairly indifferent to cricket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time we were in New York, I was missing cricket. A lot. I missed cricket so much I wanted to get drunk and send it a topless selfie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sound pathetic but the contrast of the bustling, grimy streets of Manhattan against my mornings rising to watch The Ashes against the lush, green back-drop of an English summer has done nothing but reinforce my love of cricket. Of its aesthetic beauty and of its monastically calming presence in my life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are feelings I am having from watching a game that's been riddled with umpiring errors and heart-in-mouth moments, so I realise that labeling this game 'calming' sounds completely insane. But watch it I did and what a game it was to watch. From Lord's onwards I'll be keeping a diary on each day of the Tests, but below are a few random observations from another continent with the aid of a jittery computer stream:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Poor Fawad, you really have to feel for the guy. He had every section of the press clawing at him for a solid month or so and was probably relatively certain he'd be playing a bigger part in this Ashes campaign than what's occurred. A couple of average spells in warm-up games and he's back at home on the couch in Melbourne. Is he okay? I hope he's not having a Nathan Hauritz-style garage sale this weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I'm not sure how I feel about the Man of the Match Blazer</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are we straying too far into 'Encouragement Award' mentality here? I mean, it's an embarrassing colour at least which is in keeping with cricket tour hijinks, but this just looks like an omen to me. Is it harmless fun or are the official tweets from CA legitimising it as an actual award? It is after all being awarded to Agar for a Test that Australia lost and one in which he was not actually the official Man of the Match. Happy to be proven wrong and I would love to see Agar have his name stitched into it five times though. Channel Nine are actually already preparing a limited edition "Agar the Honourable" limited edition print.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the jacket thing; am I taking this too personally? I may be taking this too personally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently this poster was iconic once. I say 'apparently' knowing that is was but having had it shoved down my throat by every meme-lover on the internet and every shitty souvenir shop in the entire universe. You're on your final warning CA social media types, the madness needs to stop. Final warning!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, I will admit there is not much competition but I love Chris Rogers and his decayed, brown, suspicious-looking armguard. That thing should have its own Cricket Australia contract. I want to smell it. I want to lick it. If Chris Rogers makes a double century at Lord's he can mail it back to Melbourne and I will eat the entire thing live on the 6 o'clock news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He played alright too, didn't he? Funny thing that, picking a guy who churns out runs in every single place he plays and he goes out and makes some runs. He got a pretty dodgy call and a few more runs still would be nice but it was a more than acceptable amuse bouche. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hand them all in people, we're safely destroying them. We've moved on. Do you really want to live in a society that allows people to walk around toting stale Joe Root jokes? Be honest, you don't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep on with the Dave Warner jokes IF they are funny though. That one is still fair game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Pie in the Sky</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all know the Channel Nine's coverage of Test cricket becomes staler and a little bit more cringe-inducing by the year, but it is always a nice novelty to have a fresh set of commentators to provide those awful moments. Sky have delivered in spades. Consider the following statement by David Lloyd during the Trent Bridge Test:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"He seems a very relaxed character, Shane Watson."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I know Bumble isn't famed for his preparation work but describing Shane Watson as "a very relaxed character" is kind of like calling Alex Jones a "totally chill bro". Interestingly enough (or not, I guess), when I visited New York's famed 'Strand' bookstore the other day, they had two cricket titles on their shelves, 'English Cricket' by Neville Cardus and some complete bollocks by Bumble. So he does have some pull, I guess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least when Athers wasn't blatantly barracking for England (sample from Australia's first innings: "Is 'inside edge' wishful thinking?" I dunno Athers, are you a fan or a journalist?) and Andrew Strauss wasn't completely ignoring the fact that one Stuart Broad lunge to save a four featured his leg straddling the boundary rope, there were some lighter moments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favourite Athers hobby-horse is when no-name sub-fieldsman come on wearing the England Test cap. Those guys are the Road Runner and Athers is Wile E Coyote. It appears he is destined to never have anything done about it, but whinge he will. I remember a time that English-born Frankston boy Steve Stubbings came onto the field during a Test wearing the aforementioned cap and Athers sounded like he was going to run onto the ground and crash-tackle him. It was all very endearing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't waste undue time on this as it's been covered to death, but consider this: Australia have unearthed a talented young cricketer who is......drum roll.......ACTUALLY LIKEABLE!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry for the egregious use of capitalisation but I think it deserves some attention. The family, the brothers, the boyish grin, the sporting reaction to being caught two short of one of the more remarkable potential centuries in Test cricket history; what is not to like about this kid? If my girlfriend leaves me for Ashton Agar, I will be shattered but completely understand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.S. Re-watch the footage of the Australian balcony when he gets out; Shane Watson does the least convincing impersonation of someone caring that his debutante teammate has just got out for 98 that is humanly possible. Worse acting than the Brut ads. Watto himself put in a classic Watto performance; hit some nice boundaries in the second innings, got himself to 40 odd and then got out, plus bowled some handy overs that had everyone falling over themselves to pay him tributes. In between he generally moves like someone who had spent the entire previous day weeding a garden for the very first time. His pain was painful to watch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, if you are not following Lenny Pascoe on twitter then I don't know what you are doing with your life and am frankly pretty disappointed in you. He is a madman in the most brilliant, consistently entertaining way and I want to hang out with him. Does he drink? From his tweets it sounds like he's drinking constantly. I mean all of this as a compliment Lenny, you are amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lenny Pascoe needs to be employed by Cricket Australia as the team psychologist. Even when you lose, you win. Everybody gets a sticker. We are reborn! Go ahead my son, into the light!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I dunno Lenny, I have never thought about that but if that is the kind of thing you think about, I want to have a beer with you. Or 20, so this all makes sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lenny loves Dickie Bird? I wouldn't know this without twitter but it's hardly a revelation, is it? Does he own all of Dickie's 742 books? I find them quite useful as door stoppers. In developing countries, they are currently being used as bricks to construct entire high rise buildings, there's that many of the things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay Lenny, I love you bud, but "complete Test player"? No-one show Lenny vision of Amla batting; he will literally dive at his TV and injure himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C'mon Lenny, you're better than that. You're heading into Brick Tamlyn territory there buddy. You can't just look at the newspaper on your lap and then just write the first combination of thoughts that come into your head. There is a 'draft' button, use it judiciously.</span>Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-12970576750519636192013-07-11T15:11:00.000+10:002013-07-11T15:11:29.892+10:00The Forgotten Story of Geoff Foley<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know, I have been away and neglecting you and I have no right to be foisting things on you, but <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2013/jul/11/geoff-foley-throwing-forgotten-story-cricket" target="_blank">here is something I wrote for the Guardian about Geoff Foley</a>, the last Australian cricketer called for throwing in a first class game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like Meckiff before him, he really is a square peg in that round hole of chuckers, neither bitter about the treatment he received nor particularly emotive about the issue as a whole. I'm talking it down though, it's an interesting story. I swear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aside from that, I'm in dying days of a gloriously long holiday but will be back on board post haste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was something about the cover of this book that told me in no uncertain terms that I needed to own it. I think you'll agree I made the right choice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dennis always starts the day with some wholesome muesli and a glass of coffee. Maybe not as healthy as a fresh juice, but certainly more nutritious than a six pack of Tooheys and twenty Marlboro Reds, which was probably how Doug Walters started his day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With that out of the way, it's time to get the kids up and active. Unless they are watching a replay of DK's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t51RjEpw8E0" target="_blank">over to Viv in the 1976 Gilette Cup semi final</a>, off goes the TV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always nice to take the kids on your morning run, just make sure you completely ignore golf course etiquette and run through someone's round. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I kid you not, Dennis lists actual instructions in the book for laying out an obstacle course to make your run more interesting. Pretty simple really, you just need a chainsaw, some chaps and a few mature natives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I admit it is slightly elaborate to construct your own hurdles, but well worth the effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again I am not making this up. Dennis suggests that should it be a bit chilly when you head out for a run, it might pay to pop some socks over your hands to keep them toasty warm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In related news, DENNIS LILLEE IS UNAWARE OF THE EXISTENCE OF GLOVES!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's always good to break the tedium of a run up by hanging from a precariously placed log for as long as you can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having ditched the kids, Dennis is now on a reconnaissance mission looking for more trees to turn into obstacle courses. He seems to be onto a winner here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there's a shirtless old bloke out on a run, it always pays to sidle up next to him and have a chat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids are probably pretty pooped by now, but there is nothing that will kill their enthusiasm for the outdoors like a spot of orienteering, or as DK calls it, "cunning running." Is that even a thing? I'm 95% he's just made that up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the kids back home it's time to hit the beach and do a bit of body surfing to impress the babes. Just make sure you're wearing your gold chain with cricket bat pendant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Yo Dennis, I'm really happy for you. Imma let you finish, but Bo Derek had one of the best rising up out of the water scenes ever! Ever!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back home to jump on the scales and indulge in a bit of self-loathing. In this section Dennis actually suggests that this task can be done in the nude to spice things up a little bit. I'm thankful he kept things civil for the sake of the book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, it always pays to be careful when it comes to your health. The ACB had just had these devices installed at team practice facilities. The were used to measure your blood alcohol reading; if you blew anything under 0.05 you weren't allowed to train.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This could be a skin-fold test, but it also might just be a photo from Dennis's private collection that was never meant to see the light of day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If your new gym friend is ignoring your subtle advances, maybe just amp things up a little with some intense, prolonged staring. Woman dig guys who are a little unbalanced, it's a fact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once this approach has worked wonders, always make sure you include your new-found friend in any planking you do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not all about chatting up the ladies though, you need to get your sweat on. Just pretend your fists are flying towards Kim Hughes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Here at the Dennis Lille Institute of Fitness, we have a clear uniform policy; either you go bareback or you wear a lab coat."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Admit it, you hadn't previously seen a photo of Dennis Lille shoveling soil into a wheel barrow and now you have. I'm not asking for thanks because I know you appreciate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Should you ever find yourself wide awake in the middle of the night at a hotel, Dennis has a workout plan for you. Chair lunges are always a good start. Again, gold chain mandatory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have no real explanation for this photo but it is genuinely tough to know where to look. This is heading into Shane Watson territory now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ahh, looking under Kerry Packer's sofa for loose change; oldest trick in the book. Nice one Fot.</span><br />
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<br />Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-15048004689292529512013-06-04T19:51:00.002+10:002013-06-04T19:51:44.427+10:00Mark Cosgrove and the stigma of obesity<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I promise I will get something nice and colourful up here sooner or later folks, but until then feel free to take a look at <a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/638901.html" target="_blank">this little thing I wrote</a> for the good people at ESPN Cricinfo.</span>Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-73744528921125639232013-05-14T15:18:00.000+10:002013-05-14T15:18:23.351+10:00The Cricket Documentaries that NEED to be made - Part 1<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>As anyone with access to cable TV and a passing interest in sports would know, in the past few years ESPN have ushered in a golden era of sports documentary making with their '30 for 30' series of high quality sports films.</b></span><div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ESPN managed to spawn a phenomenon I am calling "the Girlfriend Index". My girlfriend has no particularly keen interest in sports, yet she became so emotionally absorbed in 'Once Brothers', 'The best that never was' and 'The Two Escobars' that she still talks about them a year later. These are now the yardstick against which all other sports TV is measured for her. This is a good and bad thing; good because she is now more open to sit watching a sports program, which keeps us away from Bunnings Warehouse for two hours, though bad in that she is less likely to find watching 'Inside Cricket' an enjoyable experience by comparison, even on a purely ironic level like myself.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Even excluding the other Rebel tours by England, Sri Lanka and the West Indies, the main difficulty in putting this documentary together would be trimming it down to two hours of material.</b></span></div>
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Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-83795583052021203452013-03-27T13:13:00.000+11:002013-03-27T13:13:03.606+11:00The Worst Pieces of Cricket Memorabilia Ever<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly a disclaimer, good readers: I own an alarming amount of cricket books, memorabilia and tat associated with the game and thus it is a bit rich for me to be passing judgement on the people who buy the items that follow.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who needs a travel bag from the 1973 tour of the West Indies to put their gym gear in? Who <i>doesn't</i>? I also cannot sit before you and say I haven't drunkenly bought things on eBay late on a Friday night, or gotten a bit sauced at a sportsman's night auction and bid (I think there is a theme here...) for similarly pathetic acquisitions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But getting back to the point, Cricket memorabilia takes on many forms and there genuinely is some quite cool stuff out there, but there'll be none of that today. Today, we look at the random, the horrible, and the worst of all: the stuff that Channel Nine spend entire summers trying to sell us. So sit back and...grimace?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I once took my much-younger brother to a game at the MCG at which he decided to collect all the Australian players' autographs on one of those mini bats. With limited space, the first four or five of them diligently fulfilled his request to do a small signature across the face so he could fit the whole team on. Jumping up out of his seat to collar Brett Lee, a look of horror spread across his face as Bing magnanimously snatched the bat, gave him a friendly "g'day champ", and then proceeded to sign the entire remaining surface space of the bat with a giant, illegible scrawl. The crestfallen look on my brother's face as he slumped into his seat has outlived any detail in my memory about the actual game. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things you can buy with 85 dollars: 17 "Stunner Meals" from Hungry Jacks, every movie that John Cazale starred in on DVD, a meat pie and a coke at the MCG, or this Phil Hughes signed cricket ball. It's actually quite a rare item in that each one takes him hours to sign; the pen just keeps flashing past manically and not making contact. This also comes with a bonus Neil D'Costa coaching DVD. Just use it as a drinks coaster like Philthy does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As each day of this Indian tour passes I begin thinking more
and more of the upcoming Ashes series and what it holds for Australia. I have
also been engaging pretty heavily in the dubious science of selection
prognostications. As a result, I’ve been thinking a hell of a lot
about Chris Rogers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Rogers is an old-fashioned Australian cricketer, which
is to say he scores loads and loads of runs with a minimum of fuss and
generally does his job properly. He doesn’t have a Twitter account and he’ll
never become the subject of a bidding frenzy at an IPL auction. In fact it was
almost disconcerting to see him in a Big Bash uniform this year, like watching
Nanna stomp through your living room in a Pantera t-shirt and spit on the floor.
Chris Rogers has red hair, he has glasses and you probably wouldn’t pay him
much attention if he walked past you in the street. But put him in whites, give him a
bat and he is a rarity in Australian cricket; a specialist batsman whose first
class average hovers near the 50 mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There’s no guarantee that Rogers would have set the world on
fire in India, though I wouldn’t have bet against it. But what does stand out
like a sore thumb is Rogers’ record in England. Over the span of nine
consecutive winters away, whilst others were lining their pockets with Twenty20
riches and lolling about at the Centre for Excellence, Rogers was lining the
stats books with hundreds; 28 of them in England and an unbelievable 58 of the first class variety in
total. He’s passed the half-century mark an additional 42 times in England and
81 in total. To give some perspective on these stats, these are the comparative
records of some of Rogers’ rivals for a Test spot:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->David Warner: 6 hundreds / 9 fifties<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]-->Moises Henriques: 1 hundred / 13 fifties<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If your arithmetic is failing you, that septet has managed
37 hundreds and 89 fifties in their combined careers in comparison with Rogers’
58 and 83. Sometimes statistics tell us fibs and pad out our arguments, but runs
don’t lie. Especially in England where Rogers passes the half-century mark in
37% of his innings. In fact his record in England is a shade better than it is
in his home country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remain undimmed by the years spent languishing on the periphery. Aside from
Ricky Ponting and Brad Haddin, he is the only other player to reach three
centuries in the Sheffield Shield this season. It’s the sixth Australian season
in which he has achieved the feat; to go with the 8 English seasons he passed
the same mark (we’ll let him off for his 2005 English summer in which he <i>only</i> made two tons… in six innings). By
comparison, of the serious contenders only Queensland’s Joe Burns has 2 tons
but then he also has an average of 34 to go with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the grounds that will host Ashes tests in England this winter. At Lord’s, Rogers
averages 48.04 from 15 games with 3 centuries and 4 fifties. At the Oval he
fares even better; in 6 first class innings there he has only failed to get
past 50 on one occasion, racking up 2 centuries, 3 fifties and a Bradmanesque
average of 109.8 – is there any safer bet on English decks with the ball
swinging around? Does this experience churning out runs in England really count
for nothing? Rogers has scored a double century for every first class team in
which he’s played. He also holds the dubious distinction of being the only
Australian to score a double hundred on the 2005 Ashes tour, it was just a pity
he was wasting his time playing for Leicestershire at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Ah, but he piled on all those runs in England when he was a
young buck,” you’re saying. Well sorry, but you’re wrong. In the past three English
county seasons, Rogers sits atop the run-making charts with 3696 runs at an
average of 48.00, scoring 11 centuries and 17 half-centuries. If the NSP opt
for Rogers for the return Ashes series in Australia, they can do so knowing
that he averages over 40 at every Test venue other than Adelaide. At the SCG
you can pencil him in for close to 65.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Rogers is 35 years old and there is no doubt that age
is not on his side. But shouldn’t youthfulness and the corresponding lack of
experience and fortitude equally count against players like Maxwell and
Henriques? There's no doubt that Inverarity and the NSP will face severe
scrutiny if they opt for Rogers but I’m not entirely sure of the merit of
picking a “team for the future” if that future is an assortment of mediocre triers.
The selection of Rogers could send the greatest
cultural message of all: ‘we want excellence and we hardened batsmen who consistently make runs.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here’s a scary thought: on the last Ashes tour in 2009,
Australia had six out of its top seven batsmen average over 40 and still lost
the series. To get anywhere close to England in 2013, Australia need someone
other than Michael Clarke to average over 50. And that also encumbers Clarke
with the expectation of nothing less than that mark. To achieve such an average
a player will need to pass either a pair of centuries or 3-4 significant scores
over 50. Is there any player outside the current setup, Rogers aside, that you
would put your money on to achieve this? Feel free to let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mickey Arthur has spoken glowingly in the past of the “X
Factor” that Glenn Maxwell could be for Australian cricket. That ‘X’ is a great
unknown though. Would Australia not be better placed with the degree of
certainty that Rogers would bring to the line-up? At the very least his
selection would prompt a higher degree of respect from the opposition. At
present, England are relishing this series with the kind of blood-lust normally reserved
for World Cup football qualifiers against banana republics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test matches are harder to win when your batsman are failing
to make centuries and I am unconvinced they can be scored by anyone from
outside the current line-up other than Rogers. Experience carries weight on an
Ashes tour. In the last 3 tours, only three Australian specialist batsmen under the age of
30 have averaged fifty or above. Those players were Clarke, Damien Martyn and
Marcus North. Martyn and North were both on the cusp of 30 at the start of their
respective tours and seasoned veterans of English conditions. North’s fruitful return
in 2009 is perhaps the best advertisement of all for Rogers’ selection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If we do, we can’t expect much steel, we can't expect much polish and we can’t expect a return of the urn. That’s
the thing about the ‘X factor’.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-77636003591193061262013-03-14T21:40:00.000+11:002013-03-14T21:40:11.771+11:00How Australian Cricketers used to find out about the arrival of their kids<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The arrival of young Will Watson has got me thinking not only of the father-son potential we now have in play, but the gradually shifting sands of Australian cricket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Specifically, it made me think of the ways in which Australian cricketers used to experience the birth of their children...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Russell Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03152496966119769144noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7617110411308288381.post-69057508247892726032013-03-14T17:05:00.003+11:002013-03-14T17:10:57.883+11:00Some friendly advice for the Aussies in India<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the past couple of days the Australian Test squad in India have become the butt of a thousand jokes. Mostly lame jokes, but jokes nonetheless. Meanwhile, those who haven't been joking have been wagging their fingers disapprovingly and tut-tutting at the supposedly shambolic state of Australian cricket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Irrespective of your view on the gravity of the transgressions by players or the severity of the punishments meted out by their coach and captain, you have to admit that touring India is tough. In the 78 years since the first representative Australians traveled to India at the behest of the Maharajah of Patiala, we have come away with two series victories. So let's just take a breath and come down off the ledge, shall we?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Maharajah of Patiala - the kind of swag that N Srinivasan could only dream of.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the interests of maintaining my own sanity, I'm writing off this and every future tour of India as a loss and instead turning my attention to the remaining positives. In this light, I'd ask that the Australians view the rest of this trip as nothing other than a bonding exercise and extremely lucrative holiday. Here are my suggestions for Clarke and co which I base on the touring activities of their predecessors</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nathan Lyon has copped a decent helping of stick from both the press and the peanut gallery on this tour and is supposedly at the pointy end of faction within the team. With that in mind, perhaps he'll find more friends in the opposition sheds? I'd love to see him sidle up to Harbhajan and ask if he can adopt his look, a la Ray Bright and Bishen Bedi</span><br />
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