The Wisden Cricketer
Newsletter. Issue No.82.
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“I think if you think so much, you simply cannot bat,” says Virender Sehwag. “You never know when you get out. Try to score as much possible before that.”
So embrace risk-taking then?
“In my case, it would become risky if I try to become defensive, since my technique is not that good.”
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February 25th, 2010 by
Alan Tyers in
Miscellaneous
EXPERIENCE! Sachin has now played over 12,000 games of cricket, putting him third in the all-time list behind WG Grace and a Mr Rachel Heyhoe-Flint of Wolverhampton, who has played TWO games of cricket every day since 1927, but only because his wife made him.
POWER! Despite being only four feet tall, Sachin can bench press 460 pounds. If Sachin was an ant, this would be the equivalent of AntSachin lifting a Cornish PASTY.
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February 18th, 2010 by
Daniel Brigham in
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Warning: This post contains images of very bad bat designs by TWC staff
Ever fancied designing your own bat? Of course you have – what cricket nut hasn’t? So we’ve teamed up with Hawk bats and RH Technical Industries to allow you to just do that. We’ve provided a PDF that allows you to design every inch of your own bat, and the best one will win a bat with that very design!
To enter, just go to our homepage and click on the ‘design your own bat’ box and that’ll take you through to a PDF that you can download. To get you started, deputy editor Edward Craig has bullied the TWC team into producing their own designs, all of which would give Freud a field day …
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February 12th, 2010 by
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The Wisden Cricketer
Newsletter. Issue No.80.
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“It took me a while to appreciate the culture, the people and to enjoy India. The first few tours, when you are losing, getting smashed all over the park and getting none for a hundred, it’s not much fun. But the last couple of tours we managed to beat India over there, I really started to enjoy the people and their passion.” Shane Warne
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February 10th, 2010 by
Daniel Brigham in
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No one does nerdery quite like cricket nerds. Which is why I’m banking on all of you to help me out.
I’m putting together a feature on people who collect cricket memorabilia and would love to hear from anyone with an interesting horde. It can be anything from owning every copy of England’s 1999 World Cup song (you remember, the one that came out after England had been knocked out of the competition) to scorecards from Surrey’s seven Championships in a row in the 1950s.
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February 4th, 2010 by
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The Wisden Cricketer
Newsletter. Issue No.79. February 4
“Me and the missus went to New York and went up the Empire State Building. We hadn’t been seeing each other long and I was all macho about it. I passed out.” Andrew Flintoff, in Dubai, heads up the world’s tallest building for an interview
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February 4th, 2010 by
Alan Tyers in
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The world of cricket was abuzz with frenzied speculation last night as it emerged that a top county player has taken out a so-called “super injunction” to prevent a publication from printing lurid details about his private life.
Player X is described in legal papers seen by TWC Online as “a seamer on the verge of breaking into the outskirts of the fringes of the England set-up, given a bit of luck with injuries”.
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January 21st, 2010 by
Edward Craig in
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New kit. Everyone loves new kit.
Over the last few days, TWC has collected and reviewed the shiniest and newest cricket equipment on the market. We asked six readers to spend a day playing with bats and balls, trying out pads and gloves, wearing helmets and thigh pads.
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