In light of recent events within Australian cricket we have seen Shane Watson batting down the order. Googlie Cricket blog loves watching Shane Watson batting, but couldn’t help but write this poem. ——— Shane Watson’s Down Under Odyssey Read to the melody of Men at Work’s “Land Down Under” ——— Travellin’ in the fired [...]
After reading the Ricky Ponting FoxSports article at work, I couldn’t help but post a comment. Don’t Fret, Punter Ponting Is Bradman In The Nets (click me). Under the guise of my alter-ego, Big Poppa Pump, my response went a little something like this. “Ricky Ponting, you, and your moronic bunch of selectors are the blame [...]
Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup Final victory will surely go down in history as one of the greatest underdog-achievements in cricket, or any sport for that matter. Considered an outside chance leading into the tournament, Sri Lanka courageously took on a world beating Australian team with the kind of cajones not seen since Al Pacino’s [...]
World Cup Group Stage previews keep rolling in… Lets not beat around the bush; Match 4 will be a World Cup Group Stage challenge for the mellow-yellow Aussies. If the betting markets are any indication the Australians are clearly not in line with punter expectations, floating out to fourth in outright betting market after South [...]
Googlie Cricket blog, the home of World Cup news, information, scores and innuendo! Forget the Indian Premier League, forget the Ashes, forget match-fixing and the side-effects of steroid injected chickens; it’s all about 50 (overs; not the rapper). For five years the dreary format has suffered a personality disorder similar to that of an ugly [...]