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http://cricketburble.blogspot.com/ - "burble" - verb. To talk at great length, with scant regard for logic or facts and with no attempt to reach a conclusion.
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 14 hours ago
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Although some of my generation have not lived
to see a Test at the Brabourne Stadium at...
the Cricket Club of India, it is deemed to be the spiritual home of Indian cricket. And that spiritual home has got one more chance to host a Test due to the Wakhede stadium being improved for the 2011 ...
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India's home of cricket to host 3rd Test v Sri Lanka
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cricketburble.blogspot.com - 25 hours ago
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When I read that the BBC have had
to apologise over something Geoff Boycott had said I...
assumed that it was going to be something truly awful given the way he can go off on one when he wants to. Instead he simply used the words " fucking tosser ". Pretty disappointing really - I expected far ...
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Boycott rant disappoints!
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 25 hours ago
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Jonathan Agnew has been complaining about his latest
rental car while commentating in South Africa. Could there...
be a more obvious PR opportunity for any car brand that wants to get a free mention and get some favourable coverage with cricket lovers?
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Aggers opportunity for any car brand listening....
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 29 hours ago
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England might still be majorly inconsistent, but at
least they're good games seem more emphatic these days....
It seems that others around the world are starting to see England as a growing force, for various reasons. This blogger puts it down - at least in part - to the fact that England " are ...
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England on the up
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 40 hours ago
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After a truly brilliant Test match in New
Zealand last week, Sambit Bal has talked up Test...
cricket . The only thing I'd question is whether cricket really can make room for all 3 forms long-term....I wonder if ultimately the 50 over format needs to go. Time will tell....
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Tests still best, by a distance
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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At club level there's been some hilarious excuses
for missing a match - someone who watched their...
mum play tennis, and another who had an appointment to get his hair cut to name but two. But at international level excuses when fully fit are surely limited to deaths or serious injury/illness in ...
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Reasons for missing a cricket match
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 4 days ago
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Obviously as a Middlesex member and one who
loves Twenty20 cricket (not all do) I'm very excited...
about Andrew Gilchrist coming to Lord's next year and possibly Tendulkar too and I'm amused about how the MCC seem to be excited too, judging from the press releases. Trouble is that out of ...
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Have you seen how big it is?
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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Some interesting things to note from the latest
ICC rankings : - The top 3 ODI bowlers...
are all spinners - 6 of the top 10 ODI bowlers are spinners - No Australia or South African batsmen make the top 5 Test batsmen - The top 2 Test batsmen are both Sri Lankan - The 5th ranked Test bowler in ...
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New(ish) ICC rankings
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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Apparently Broad may be fit enough to take
Mahmood's place in the next England ODI. Here's hoping.......
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Mahmood out - we can only hope...
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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I suppose there shouldn't be too much surprise
that the BCCI have priced the sponsorship rights to...
the Indian team too high to get any offers. But it's happened all the same .
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BCCI go in too high
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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Another weekend, another formal dinner for a delegation
of Cricket Burblers. A draining but necessary consequence of...
the glitz and glamour of the Burble lifestyle, you doubtless suspect. It's true that the constant whirlwind of film premieres, backstage passes and celebrity after-parties takes ...
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Dining like a Lord
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 6 days ago
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I'm a big fan of Tendulkar, but I'm
also a fan of cutting through the crap and...
looking at relevant/fair stats. So this article from Australia that claims to use stats to show why Tendulkar is over-rated interested me. You can make up your own mind on the relative merits of Tendulkar v the ...
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Another view on Tendulkar
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 8 days ago
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No, not in the England team! This time
it's Dilshan who's broken his nose while playing football...
during the Sri Lankan warm up. They don't say who played the Owais Shah role....
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Another football injury
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 12 days ago
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I can't quite work out how the ECB
are so involved in the legal dramas between the...
ICL and the BCCI. The BCCI may have a case to answer for restraint of trade, but the ECB simply reacted to a set of events in the most commercially attractive way they could. As I've said before on Cricket ...
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ECB get the rough end of the stick
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 12 days ago
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An entirely predictable headline on Cricinfo !
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Oh dear Cricinfo!
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 12 days ago
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Following Ben's post, Cricinfo have run a poll
on the issue of moving The Ashes back to...
terrestrial TV in England - the results are pretty conclusive!
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Cricinfo poll results....
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 15 days ago
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This report suggests that there is a proposal
on the table to bring the ICC offices back...
to London from Dubai. It must be so disruptive to keep moving offices and they've now gone from Lord's to Monaco to Dubai in recent years. Let's hope that any such move from Dubai is their last for a ...
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ICC to move back to England?
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 17 days ago
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The news that Ashes cricket will return to
terrestrial TV for the next home series is fantastic...
news for English cricket fans without a Sky subscription (as well as the unwilling, that group includes people in nursing homes, children etc) who have been deprived the chance to watch live cricket ...
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Cricket on terrestrial TV
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 17 days ago
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Injuries have hit Queensland and Andrew Symonds is
back in for their next one-dayer in Australia. It...
will be interesting to see what happens if he plays a great innings or takes match-changing wickets....
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Symonds back for Queensland
cricketburble.blogspot.com - 18 days ago
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Why did so many S A fielders wear
watches - why would they ever need to know...
the time? What is that logo on their sleeves that looks like a flag or a giraffe's head ? Why did the umpires miss so many no balls - overstepping (as opposed to their offspinners srilankan elbow) ? Why did they use ...
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Questions from the first P20 match
