Winners are grinners

What an exciting finish to this year's Sheffield Shield. In my world, it's quite rare to use the words "exciting" and "Sheffield Shield" in the same sentence.

Well done to Queensland. Clichéd, I know, but I think cricket was the big winner here. So many times, the longer form of the game drifts off into boredom territory. From all the news accounts, it sounds like this was good right to the very end.

Picture from here.

Exciting finish coming up in the one day cricket...

India vs Sri Lanka. Who would have thought a game between these two sides would be in any way interesting?

30 runs from 33 balls. 7 wickets in hand. The Indian batsmen are scoring boundaries all over the park. In the last over, there was one six and five fours. They look like they are going to reach 320 runs off 40 overs so they can achieve a bonus point in the competition. A pretty amazing effort.

So I'll get back to a bit of blogging later...

ABC radio cricket commentary gold

Jim Maxwell when Peter Siddle bowled Sachin Tendulkar in the second-last over of the day (thus depriving Sachin of his 100th test century):

"That's 20 000 off the crowd for tomorrow..."

Brilliant.