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  1. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Anyone know of a good, empathetic biography of Hutton? I don't feel I have any sort of handle on the guy. On the one hand, he insisted that he would captain England only as a professional; on the other, he did everything in his power to look and sound like a gentleman -- even to the point of...
  2. neville cardus

    All-rounder-heavy Test teams

    The England team in the Ashes Test of 1882 contained no fewer than six all-rounders (Barlow, Grace, Barnes, Steel, Ulyett and Studd), which explains why in both innings it had front-line batsmen at number ten. I can't think of a line-up that even approximates this. Can anyone else?
  3. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    My copy of Home Gordon's Background to Cricket is a bit smudgy atop page p. 164, beginning with the words "in order to obtain notification of his selection, and at once..." Would someone care to snap a photograph of this page for me?
  4. neville cardus

    That's great news, mate. Hope you enjoy your trip. We should form a consortium with a roster, so...

    That's great news, mate. Hope you enjoy your trip. We should form a consortium with a roster, so that we're keeping track of everything, and so that we have each other covered when personal circumstances make recording impossible. Do you have WhatsApp?
  5. neville cardus

    South Africa team selection

    The man of whom you want to make this argument is Jacques Kallis, whose average didn't get into the thirties until his twentieth Test.
  6. neville cardus

    That's great to hear! Hope you're doing the present SA/Eng Test? I'm going to be in the SABC...

    That's great to hear! Hope you're doing the present SA/Eng Test? I'm going to be in the SABC studios from tomorrow, helping out with the radio coverage. Would be a weight off my mind to know that someone had my back. :-)
  7. neville cardus

    Cricket footage archive

    That's great to hear! Hope you're doing the present SA/Eng Test? I'm going to be in the SABC studios from tomorrow, helping out with the radio coverage. Would be a weight off my mind to know that someone had my back. :-)
  8. neville cardus

    Cricket footage archive

    I asked David Frith. Don't be a bore.
  9. neville cardus

    Cricket footage archive

    A day's play is only around 3 GB, and I've plenty of real estate on my 2 TB hard drives. It's not costly or space-consuming at all. How does one get in touch with Robelinda? I've tried him on Twitter, with no luck.
  10. neville cardus

    Cricket footage archive

    Note to mods: This is not about sharing copyrighted material. It's about preserving it. Since discovering a couple of years ago, to my unspeakable horror, that no-one else was doing this, I've been religiously recording every ball I can of every Test Match, in a bid to preserve footage that...
  11. neville cardus

    At the cricket

    Aye. But they do furnish elegant examples of everything that's wrong with the modern game. I fully intend to be insufferable about them.
  12. neville cardus

    At the cricket

    Oh, it's certainly true. It was the only branded umbrella in a part of the ground where they were sprouting like mushrooms, and the only one targeted. The Ts & Cs do specifically ban "branded gazebos." Stadium Regulations SuperSport Park If he's under orders, I really can't blame him. He...
  13. neville cardus

    At the cricket

    It would be rather nice, wouldn't it, if on the purchased advertising we were given a list of the conditions stipulated by the advertiser? "This Test Match is proudly sponsored by Castle Lager. As a condition of our sponsorship (being the officious little Stalinists we are), we reserve the...
  14. neville cardus

    At the cricket

    Thing is, neither of the things I've mentioned were freaks. Both were matters of policy, as in both cases was explained to me. It's all very disillusioning.
  15. neville cardus

    At the cricket

    I dunno, man. There's no middle ground when it comes to jostling a child, especially when you're doing so at the bidding of monied interests with small minds and authoritarian agendas.
  16. neville cardus

    At the cricket

    This was at the Cow Corner Bar. I was directly behind the umbrella, and could see perfectly. The security guards made their reasons quite clear. My item looked a little too "professional," I think. The whole experience was probably worth it, though, just to see the looks on the faces of two...
  17. neville cardus

    At the cricket

    At about midday today, at SuperSport Park, in the fulgent heat of a highveld summer, I happened to descry a very small, very young boy being jostled for his umbrella by three very large security guards. Apparently the offending item was emblazoned with one or two too many corporate logos. The...
  18. neville cardus

    South Africa team selection

    Looking forward to seeing Yasir in the flesh, though. I'm going tomorrow. Anyone want to meet up and have a drink?
  19. neville cardus

    South Africa team selection

    If we get more surfaces like the present, there's a strong case to be made for dispensing with Maharaj's services.
  20. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Anyone know what Max Bonnell's new email address is? (Hopeful, come to think of it, that he might see this himself!)

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