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  1. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    This is fast becoming a very frustrating discussion. P'rhaps we ought to rewind and remind everyone how we reached this impasse: Nev (on the just-concluded Test in Bangladesh): "There's also a correlation between the quality of the wicket and the fact that this game drew a crowd. Not a huge...
  2. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    You -- EDIT: or rather one of your co-thinkers -- described cricket in the Caribbean as "a minor sport indulged by a minority of people."
  3. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    Erm, cricket does have fairly deep roots in the Caribbean, you know. The book on our sport was written by a Trinidadian, and the West Indies played their first Test Match before any subcontinental nation...
  4. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    And the Caribbean, which was the other example I added? I should say, impishly, that I added it precisely because I anticipated this response. ;-)
  5. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    There's also a correlation between the quality of the wicket and the fact that this game drew a crowd. Not a huge one, by any means, but the atmosphere they generated was wonderful. Contrast and compare this with what we get in the UAE or the Caribbean, where the surfaces are as lifeless as the...
  6. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    You consider the Windies to have won a "close and dramatic" Test Match?
  7. neville cardus

    Franchise cricket and Big Bash losses

    I've received an email or two congratulating me on my uncanny evocation of Cardus's style. I should make clear that I lifted and adapted this material in ten minutes from three of his books.
  8. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    People talk a lot about shortening this format by a day, but the Tests I've most enjoyed reading about are the three-dayers of the first four or five decades of their history. Apart from anything else, low-scoring Tests are far more likely to be close and dramatic than high-scoring ones.
  9. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    Long may it continue. Contrary to popular belief, cricket is about wickets. Matches don't pivot on fours and sixes; dismissals move games forward. Which is why you can't take your eyes off this stuff. Something's happening all the time.
  10. neville cardus

    Franchise cricket and Big Bash losses

    The same internationals with which the BBL so often coincides, and whose takings and ratings it considerably diminishes?
  11. neville cardus

    Franchise cricket and Big Bash losses

    It is (partially), but it had nothing to do with McKay. In point of fact I remember being rather more upset with Neil Harvey, who was guilty of one of the most shockingly wrong and ungrammatical strokes ever perpetrated by a well-bred batsman. Laker, in that Australian holocaust, removed him...
  12. neville cardus

    Franchise cricket and Big Bash losses

    What English cricket really needs, according to virtually everyone, is to follow the wildly successful Australian model: https://www.atthematch.com/article/the-big-bash-league-model-must-be-adapted-in-england England must learn from Big Bash and introduce franchises to benefit fans, players...
  13. neville cardus

    Test cricket in Bangladesh

    It's the absolute mustard, isn't it? I live for these low-scoring thrillers, and nowhere do we get them more regularly. A mixture of spin-friendly conditions and the proactive attitude of the home side -- especially its top order. I've watched every ball I can of the last three Tests in that...
  14. neville cardus

    Lonwabo Tsotsobe's fall from grace

    It was pretty terrible at first, but I understand Brett "Oh My Word!" Proctor has been helping him along.
  15. neville cardus

    Women's cricket

    Enjoyed the final, but I do wish they wouldn't bring in the boundaries. There are plenty of male cricketers who haven't the strength or the knack for six-hitting, and they get on just fine. No need to patronise the women. It can be a totally different game if we let it, all about touch and...
  16. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    What a man!
  17. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    There's a copy in a library near my brother's. No reason not to get it scanned and uploaded onto the Internet Archive for the benefit of everyone. Will see what I can do.
  18. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    If you promise to send me JPEGs of all the pages, I'm happy to go halvsies on it! ;-)
  19. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Oh god. What have I done? This is a new low.
  20. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Not at all. I just think Thompson's better when he's freestyling. He doesn't do so well when he has a narrative to follow, which is essential when you're writing a biography.

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