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  1. neville cardus

    A song for the 1878 Australians

    No match that didn't purport to be nationally representative, at least in name, was ever granted Test status. Certainly it was the first Test-class match ever played in England, but "MCC" only became interchangeable with "England" when they were touring, and that only decades later. It's worth...
  2. neville cardus

    A song for the 1878 Australians

    Yeah. Sunk like a stone. Only tragics like Peter and your humble servant could have ever thought it worth reviving.
  3. neville cardus

    A song for the 1878 Australians

    In which I become a bigshot music producer: This is probably the first time it's been played in over a century. Certainly it's the first time anyone's recorded it.
  4. neville cardus

    Joe Darling in colour

    I should say that the music only got the nod because it had "Darling" in the title. ;-)
  5. neville cardus

    Joe Darling in colour

    That's very kind. I imagine they've lobbed an underarm full-toss for him to pull. Doesn't match at all what we see in the video.
  6. neville cardus

    Joe Darling in colour

    That's very kind.
  7. neville cardus

    Joe Darling in colour

    Aye. But the music feels as if it's breaking some sort of rule. Isn't it mandatory on YouTube to go with a strident dubstep?
  8. neville cardus

    Joe Darling in colour

  9. neville cardus

    Walter Brearley in colour and slow motion

    I wonder if I could get away with using Clair de Lune in every video?
  10. neville cardus

    George Giffen in colour

    I've done some pretty things with photography and film this year. But only the discovery of the Eddie Gilbert footage gives me a greater thrill than my discovery, this week, of the only action photographs of George Giffen.
  11. neville cardus

    The ????? "Ball of the Century"

    Nope. Played at the standard 30fps.
  12. neville cardus

    The ????? "Ball of the Century"

    I cannot think why this astonishing delivery has been forgotten. (Just try googling it: There's nothing. It can't have helped, of course, that observers like Harold Larwood reported it to the world as a googly.) One can only imagine how good it would look if the camera were so aligned as to give...
  13. neville cardus

    Jack Blackham in colour

    And the Amazon gift card goes to...
  14. neville cardus

    Jack Blackham in colour

  15. neville cardus

    WG Grace in colour

    Rather pleased with how it came out: Rodney
  16. neville cardus

    Cricket's oldest film

    For the same reason there are so many nudes in classical and renaissance sculpture, with both of which the Victorians were preoccupied. When you're studying the motions and sinews and ossa of the body, clothing is an obstacle.
  17. neville cardus

    Cricket's oldest film

    Don't know how you can tell at that frame-rate. What is interesting about his action is how low it is. He was barely a generation removed from the legalisation of overarm bowling. His batting technique is more remarkable still. Setting aside his stance, there's nothing in the execution of...
  18. neville cardus

    Cricket's oldest film

    I've just applied a motion-interpolation AI to Eadweard Muybridge's 1885/86 cricketing stills, and so rendered them for the first time as a film. These are the oldest moving images of our great game, predating The Roundhay Garden Scene by roughly two years: Rodney
  19. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    David Mitchell writes beautifully. But he does not know much about cricket. From Utopia Avenue (2020): Yorkers, notoriously, are difficult to "smack." And no-one asks, "Howzat?" when the stumps are parting.
  20. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Yes, Michael Parkinson says something about it somewhere. The claim is also made here...

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