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border gavaskar 2nd test – day 4

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a test for the ages with it all. great cricket, great controversy after great controversy. controversies that reach to the limits of human existence, thowing into question law and language – the basics. a double abandoned cartwheel side roll (that harbhajan can be one funny little monkey at times!) there’s been an awful lot of talk going on outside this game of cricket about things said within the game – extraordinary considering all thats ever talked about within a game of crickets kfc.

at the beginning of the cricket show (during the lunchbreak) s odonnell said “i wish we could spend the whole show talking about harbhajans double side roll but instead we have to talk about the controversy over what he said to roy symonds.” undoubtedly the most intelligent sentiment s odonnell has ever expressed. what a great cricket show it could have been!! surely the double abandoned cartwheel side roll should exonerate harbhajan from any charges? a positive, giving atonement rather than the

punitive.

the super slow motion highlights of 10dulkars innings yesterday (i didn’t get to see any of it) were probably the most beautiful things ive ever seen

the period of play leading up to and immediately following haydens incredibly bold decision to start reverse sweeping harbhajan was probably the best period of test cricket ive seen since maybe the first session of the first ashes test 2005. everything was so tight, the bowling was threatening, hussey and hayden were tight and nervous, the sweep shot was being severely challenged (jaques had fallen that way – australia were fragile). the reverse sweep was a stroke of genius that changed the game almost immediately. somewhat blinded by the sheer audaciousness of the act kumble changed the field far to rapidly. hayden and hussey carefully pounced.

fishing buddies 3

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in the early hours haydos and symmo took a boat out on the bay looking to catch something to throw on the barbie for a late team breakfast. as they stared at the water and scrutinised the currents they reflected upon what they had done. waiting for the bites they knew would come they were not strangers to remorse. as soon as a big one is landed though theyll forget these less certain feelings and theyll want nothing more than to complete the increasingly savage whitewash.

the saddest most frightening thing for england (and cricket generally given how great freddie should be) is they way in which flintoff is taking on, more and more each day the series continues, the aspect of nasser hussein. lucky it was only a 3 day test.

rudi koertzen is statuesque.

day 17 poem

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andrew symonds v matthew hayden

weve landed some good fish before

but thats only ever been back on earth

out in a tinnie staring at the currents

from under our classic xxxx visors

only the great outdoors man up north

planet earth is blue today but looking at it through

quasars its colours are quickly changing n

yd no longer callem fish or visors out here dunno

what weve jagged but fuck its

sizeable haydos told me these interstellar pink

gripsd come in handy

waca 1 reversal

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man i wanted to be at the waca today, the rickety stands and all the grass, the tones of green on the square were 2nd to none. the tonal modulation of the cricket pretty much matched it. giles looked frikkin great as 12th man – he’ll do a sterling job. pietersen looked brilliant with his little fighter pilot tache. the perfect maybe dashing maybe slightly dopey ghibli villain.

the match began amid endless chatter about about pitches not being what they used to, a call for the old consistency of variable pitches across the world as opposed to the new consistency of pitches. typical traits. always on the first morning at the waca. never enough slips in the cordon for channel 9. the start of the match was almost identical to the start at the gabba, langer off the mark playing off his toes and falling over and then lots of loose but safe shots through gaps or over the cordon for 4. australia let loose and going wild. then hoggard produced a near perfect ball to dismiss hayden & then ponting in the form off his life v harmison out of the form of his life but with one ball the reversal the series needed and harmy’s joy was unrestrained. it was as though the series started all over again again.

after these two wkts the game tightened up immensely. tight bowling, considered fighting batting. the day went on. wkts came out of the blue, just when australia looked to be cementing solid partnerships. no particularly great deliveries or poor shots but wkts all the same. i think langer let panesar bowl him just to make some sort of point about previous english selection – a sacrifice for the good of the game. he vaguely kind of pretended to try and keep it out. panesar was a joy to watch he had a bit of dance in his delivery and he ejects the ball on a nice trajectory. and the wkt comes he’s got a heap o dance in him then. symonds was a one over wonder and god its great to have him back too. harmison bowled a great spell to the tail.

with panesar in and harmison in form the english team is almost far too likeable. i guess the batsmen are still poms and lack any charm (barring KP of course), but as a bowling side i reckon theyre tops.

but if id been at the waca i would have missed the highlights reel of martos career that they played during the cricket show. i couldve watched it forever. hope theres a dvd.

what you wish for

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What a day. The MCG was the happiest place in the world. As Hayden felt his way through his shot continuum, bringing up an immensely touching hundred (Hayden bats like a cellist, the tones not demarcated by frets, playing with great feeling, building crescendoes and stuff) his fishing buddy launched a brutal assault on the protean bowling attack, at the final second of opportunity kick starting a long and heroic test career. And then there were more of those great wkts of his.

celebrate

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When Brett Lee clean bowled Jacques Kallis this morning after 40 odd days and nights of dot balls his celebration was unparalleled. He skipped high into the air, his fists appeared unsure of quite what move they could possibly perform to truly capture the joy of the moment – so they simply performed every move. And performed them to perfection. The cowboy roping steer lasso move was particularly admirable. Who would have thought that only a few hours later, shortly after the Milo Lunchbreak, this audacious celebration would be surpassed. Not once but three times. Andrew Symonds’ celebrations just got better and better with each wkt he took. He was only just staying on his feet. The whole of the cricketing world is praying that he scores a powerful blistering century in the second innings and retains his place in the side. Really with these celebrations it could be considered that he has done enough to cement his place in the side.