Ricky loves watching himself on TV
Ricky Ponting is thrilled with the new innovation of a huge plasma screen next to the nets while he practices batting.
In fascinating scenes at Brisbane's Allan Border Field, an enormous plasma screen television was hauled into the practice net next to Ponting as he was video-taped facing deliveries from a bowling machine.
The video footage was fed through the plasma screen, on a five-second delay, enabling Ponting to play a stroke and then watch it replayed immediately on TV.
Ponting, who endured a run of low scores in last summer's one-day series and then failed to fire for Kolkata in the Indian Premier League, emerged delighted and declaring it as possibly the most valuable net session ever.
I can just imagine Ricky playing a graceful cover drive, then fidgeting with the remote control, admiring replays of his strokeplay in normal speed, slow motion, backwards, etc.
Of less practical use was Michael Clarke's net session with the plasma TV showing video footage of Lara Bingle.
| Posted by JC on Fri 9 May |  0 comments |
Sreesanth gets slapped, cries, gets a hug and feels better
I apologise for the lack of IPL coverage here on cricket-blog. I tried watching the early games but when you're struggling to find a team to support and they're taking team names from 80's TV shows, well, can you blame me? However, some coverage of Sreesanth blubbering like a schoolgirl after getting slapped by Harbhajanh Singh certainly got my attention.
Now I know in this age of political correctness, it's okay for guys to cry. Men should be more adept at expressing our emotions (at least that's what my wife tells me). Nevertheless, I can't help smiling when grown men cry in public. One of my best friends cried at his wedding reception - we still tease him about it decades later.
I also like how the Indian media present it as "Breaking News" in the same sense that a war breaking out or someone landing on the moon is breaking news.
| Posted by JC on Sun 27 Apr | 18 comments |
Chanderpaul hits six off last ball to defeat Sri Lanka
I've got one word for Chaminda Vaas...
Underarm!
| Posted by JC on Sat 12 Apr | 6 comments |
Sonny Bill liked Roy's streaker hit - Gillmeister not so impressed
Some of rugby league's greatest tacklers have rated Andrew Symond's shoulder hit on the Gabba streaker:
Bulldogs superstar Sonny Bill Williams was watching on television. "Hmmm, I'd be happy with that," the Kiwi international mused."I'm glad he chose cricket, by the looks of that tackle," Williams said yesterday. "Or if he did, I would like him in my side. He got that streaker horizontal. It's always a good sign of a big tackle when you can get both of the other guy's feet off the ground.
"I'd definitely like to have a tackle like that on my resume … And I don't think that streaker will be running onto cricket grounds any more."
Glowing praise from arguably the "greatest exponent of the shoulder charge in rugby league". However, rugby league's greatest ever tackler (and I'm not just saying that cause I'm a Queenslander) is undoubtedly Trevor Gillmeister, who wasn't quite so glowing with his praise:
"He didn't drive through properly. "He didn't finish the tackle off. And if he's ever going to make it in rugby league, he might want to put a cheap shot in there somewhere, too."
| Posted by JC on Fri 7 Mar | 19 comments |
No-One Can Do a Good Impression Of Richie Benaud
YouTube - the website that just gives and gives (thanks to Julian for the heads-up):
| Posted by JC on Thu 6 Mar | 4 comments |
Andrew Symonds vs streaker
I missed the video footage of Andrew Symond's demolishing the Brisbane streaker like a flighted Piyush Chawla legspinner. Where would the blogosphere be without YouTube?
| Posted by JC on Wed 5 Mar | 69 comments |
