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http://timesonline.typepad.com/line_and_length/ - A very English cricket blog by Patrick Kidd. Subscribe to a feed of this Times Online blog at http://timesonline.typepad.com/line_and_length/rss.xml

timesonline.typepad.com - 9 hours ago
Hold-all
— timesonline.typepad.com — Last night's legends match between West Indies and England (see earlier post ) was notable for being... umpired by a hat-trick of Holders. John Holder, the former Hampshire seamer who retired from umpiring in county cricket this year, and Vanburn Holder, who played Test cricket for West Indies ... (more) Hold-all

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Viv Richards wimps out
timesonline.typepad.com - 10 hours ago
Viv Richards wimps out
— timesonline.typepad.com — If you have ever wondered how the bellicose batsmen and the canny bowlers of yesteryear would have... fared in Twenty20, there is a tournament going on in the West Indies at the moment that should provide illumination. The Cricket Legends of Barbados sounds like my sort of competition. Teams of ... (more) Viv Richards wimps out

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Windies call up Serena
timesonline.typepad.com - 29 hours ago
Windies call up Serena
— timesonline.typepad.com — Introducing the new West Indies opening batsman for the second Test against Australia at Adelaide this week.... Chris Gayle has decided that he really can't be bothered with matches that last a whole five (or even three) days and so has returned to Jamaica. He will be replaced by this ... (more) Windies call up Serena

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For flip's sake
timesonline.typepad.com - 30 hours ago
For flip's sake
— timesonline.typepad.com — I try to avoid bad language on this blog. Not only does my mother occasionally visit the... site, but it remains Times style to asterisk out the letters of rude words in case they cause offence to sensitive eyes (although who doesn't read the word f*** and, in their mind, say f*** in all its ... (more) For flip's sake

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Gooch impersonates a batting coach
timesonline.typepad.com - 32 hours ago
Gooch impersonates a batting coach
— timesonline.typepad.com — Rich Abbott is right to suggest in a comment on this site that I am excited that... my boyhood hero Graham Gooch has been summoned to South Africa to help Andy Flower out with the coaching. England have been floundering since Gooch was sacked as selector in 1999. Sure they may have won the ... (more) Gooch impersonates a batting coach

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A chequerboard tour
timesonline.typepad.com - 2 days ago
A chequerboard tour
— timesonline.typepad.com — Paul Collingwood is a quiet-spoken, thoughtful man, not prone to making big claims or overembellishing a situation... and he cut straight to the point when asked to reflect on the tour of South Africa so far. "It's been a little bit of a rollercoaster ride, in terms of results and ... (more) A chequerboard tour

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Line & Length's Guide to the Noughties: 2002
timesonline.typepad.com - 5 days ago
Line & Length's Guide to the Noughties: 2002
— timesonline.typepad.com — Continuing our series of retrospectives on the past decade. Andy Flower has pretty much sewn up your... nomination for player of 2000 . You can read the review of 2001 here , where the leading player in the poll is VVS Laxman, with Flower and Matthew Hayden on his heels. Vote on the player of ... (more) Line & Length's Guide to the Noughties: 2002

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timesonline.typepad.com - 5 days ago
Larwood wins Bookie Prize
— timesonline.typepad.com — Posting has been light this week, for which I apologise. I'd like to say that I've been... busy writing a bestselling book, but instead it has been the routine day job of editing a rugby sevens supplement and preparing a forthcoming Times sporting retrospective of the decade (published in a couple ... (more) Larwood wins Bookie Prize

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End these Indian bore draws
timesonline.typepad.com - 7 days ago
End these Indian bore draws
— timesonline.typepad.com — It is feasting time for fans of Test cricket this week. India are playing Sri Lanka; New... Zealand are up against Pakistan and Australia begin what their fans expect (and the rest of the world fears) will be a massacre of West Indies at the Gabba on Thursday. For those who want their cricket in ... (more) End these Indian bore draws

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timesonline.typepad.com - 11 days ago
Revolution's in the air
— timesonline.typepad.com — A wonderful letter in today's Times from Mr Francis Ingham, of Paddock Wood, Kent: Sir, Lord's does... indeed plan great changes to cricket ( report Nov 18 ). The artist's impression of how the MCC ground will look in the future depicted 13 fielders. Change indeed. Oh yes indeed, Mr Ingham. ... (more) Revolution's in the air

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timesonline.typepad.com - 11 days ago
Go third and multiply
— timesonline.typepad.com — Line & Length is not always the most optimistic of blogs (I am English after all) but... I took heart from the top line given to a press release sent out by the ICC ahead of today's first one-day international. "Clean sweep will send England to third place" That was the headline. And ... (more) Go third and multiply

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Line & Length's Guide to the Noughties: 2001
timesonline.typepad.com - 12 days ago
Line & Length's Guide to the Noughties: 2001
— timesonline.typepad.com — Continuing our series of retrospectives on the past decade. Read the entry for 2000 here , where... Andy Flower leads Glenn McGrath by a nose in the vote for your favourite player of that year, and vote on the player of 2001 at the foot of this post. Delighted to see that our last poll ... (more) Line & Length's Guide to the Noughties: 2001

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timesonline.typepad.com - 12 days ago
An evening with Athers
— timesonline.typepad.com — Three months ago - gosh, was that all? - England won the Ashes at the Brit Oval,... thanks to some brilliant bowling from Broad and Swann, a debut hundred by Trott and the second most memorable run-out of Ricky Ponting (sorry Freddie, Pratt still wins for me). On December 7, you can relive those ... (more) An evening with Athers

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Sponsoring Lord's
timesonline.typepad.com - 13 days ago
Sponsoring Lord's
— timesonline.typepad.com — Hallelujah to the news that MCC is to reject a plan to name Lord's after a sponsor.... Watching England play India in the ToffeeCrispStadium @Lord's.org would have just felt wrong. There is a certain poetry to the naming of cricket grounds. For more than a century, Test cricket has been ... (more) Sponsoring Lord's

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Dravid's longevity more impressive than Tendulkar's
timesonline.typepad.com - 14 days ago
Dravid's longevity more impressive than Tendulkar's
— timesonline.typepad.com — Rahul Dravid got to 11,000 Test runs yesterday. I count myself fortunate that I saw the first... 96 of them, when he almost made a hundred on Test debut at Lord's in 1996. I also saw him advance to 5,335 runs when he made a double hundred at the Oval in 2002. There was deserved fuss about ... (more) Dravid's longevity more impressive than Tendulkar's

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Captain Cook
timesonline.typepad.com - 15 days ago
Captain Cook
— timesonline.typepad.com — So, not quite the ideal start to Alastair Cook's tenure as England captain yesterday. He may be... the first player to be groomed for the job arguably since Mike Atherton - although Vaughan and Flintoff both had some age-group captaincy experience - but it was not the happiest debut. South ... (more) Captain Cook

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Line & Length's Guide to the Noughties: 2000
timesonline.typepad.com - 15 days ago
Line & Length's Guide to the Noughties: 2000
— timesonline.typepad.com — Starting today and appearing every four or five days, Line & Length goes all misty-eyed and looks... back on the past decade of cricket. Who were the heroes and the villains, what were the best matches, who were the least likely international cricketers and who did we say goodbye to? Also, ... (more) Line & Length's Guide to the Noughties: 2000

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timesonline.typepad.com - 17 days ago
Rain, beautiful rain
— timesonline.typepad.com — In was doing the Times Online commentary on yesterday's T20 international, when rain came along and spoilt... what could have been a cracking finish. Or, to look at it another way, rain added a thrilling random variable to an exciting game and ensured that one team would be cursing cruel fortune ... (more) Rain, beautiful rain
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The Walford Oval
timesonline.typepad.com - 19 days ago
The Walford Oval
— timesonline.typepad.com — "Are the EastEnders scriptwriters subliminally picking the England cricket team?" It was an odd opening gambit, but... Steve Pittard, a Line & Length reader, grabbed my attention, even if I haven't watched the London soap since Leslie Grantham was plugged by a gangster beside the canal. ... (more) The Walford Oval

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Is Kallis the greatest?
timesonline.typepad.com - 19 days ago
Is Kallis the greatest?
— timesonline.typepad.com — Kevin Pietersen may be many things, but he is not into false flattery. When he says he... rates someone, he means it. And although he likes to make big statements, without the conditionals and weasel words of others, he usually has sound reason for what he says. There is always basis for the ... (more) Is Kallis the greatest?

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