Recent content by Flogwater

Thank you. I was surprised to some degree: my gut feeling was that the McGrath-Warne-Gillespie-Lee combination would be around 25 Tests. It's interesting, to at least some of us, to see the list of the 16 Tests and to consider the results. 2001 vs England away: all five Tests; 2001/02 vs New...

Off the top of my head, the true position is in between, but closer to 4Seasons' summary. I recall that Lee was out of the Test side for 18 months and carried the drinks on numerous occasions, but not as much as Bichel did. Lee played in the Sydney Test in January 2004 against India (Steve...

"On crack" is more apt than "crackerjack". Conroy is an odd unit.

Well put. Please forward this to Jim Maxwell as a late Christmas present.

Brandis is a safe bet to come up with an appalling take. George exercising his right to be the village idiot. The fact that The Age*/SMH have given this disingenuous campaigner a regular column for a few years is a reliable marker of the sharp decline of these newspapers (I prefer to not use...

Indeed. Lane is also well past it and has become an increasingly insufferable twat over the last 25-odd years. Whateley is also annoying and I would prefer that he stay away. He is too melodramatic, too fond of the sound of his own voice and prone to pontificate. Enough already about Winx...

It will probably be Corbin Middlemas or Alison Mitchell. Keeping Maxwell on for another summer would just trash the ABC cricket reputation further and would drive listeners away. Mitchell would be better than Middlemas. Although she might not be available to be the lead caller due to...

Cricket Rebels by Harte and Warwick Hadfield is another. A small yellow paperback.

Paterson - polished? You can't polish a turd. He's a shill for Gina and paranoid about anything remotely to do with China. Susssan Ley would be good for a few laffs.

Odd take from Lemon, who is usually an astute judge. Maxwell's comments were Cricket Commentary 101.

Yep. In the glorious summer of 1984-85, Australia played 16 ODIs at home: the 10 WSC group games (vs West Indies and Sri Lanka), three WSC finals (lost the best of three series 1-2) and the three group matches in the World Championship of Cricket. The total could have been 18 ODIs if Australia...

As a whole, I enjoy cricket, but there are countless aspects of the game at the top levels and its media coverage that are irritating. For now, I will keep it to two items: (1) from circa 2008, The Voice of Summer. Please stay at the WACA for the rest of your days and keep well clear of any...

Bullish is close to bullshit in more ways than one.

Good post. Maxwell has been giving me the smash hits for a long time and he has plumbed new depths this summer. The 50 year anniversary wankfest has made it nearly unlistenable. There are a few redeeming features of the ABC coverage that are keeping me going, at least for now. I don't mind...

Thanks, Gough. I think you meant to include McGrath at number 11, rather than repeat Warne. An interesting selection for various reasons. I wouldn't have Thommo in the top 25 bowlers I have seen, let alone as one of the three specialist fast bowlers in the side. The selection of JR Thomson...