http://www.cricketwithballs.com Cricket is like syphilis Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:56:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Times recently mentioned that Hitler once played a game of cricket and also tried to re-write the rules. What they didn’t mention was that he also write a book dedicated to the game of cricket. Obviously I could never go through all the over written prose, but I can ... http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2010/03/18/mein-cricket/ At about 1730 GMT the site will be down for general maintenance. I'm not really sure what that means, but it will happen. http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2010/03/18/site-maintenance/ Recently I was contacted to do a new column for the website cricdude. It will be a wednesday thing, I won't link to them every week here. It is my first real non comedy type deal. But you should go check it out, I think of it as Bill Simmons meets Keith Stackpole ... http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2010/03/17/cricdude/ I know you see yourself as the K-Mart Lalit Modi.  There is no doubt you want to leave your mark on the game of cricket as a modern administracrat that can move and shake with the best of them.  But there are better ways to do this than by taking ... http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2010/03/16/dear-james-sutherland/ Cricinfo asked me to review the IPL youtube channel. It didn't end well. After a morning of watching cricket players singing on YouTube (Abdul Razzaq is my favourite) I stumbled across the live IPL stream. I was greeted with Pommie Mbangwa and Shane Warne speaking with an awkward ... http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2010/03/16/the-ipl-youtube-show/ My memories on the first IPL are pretty hazy. It was on late at night in Australia, one reason why it may never catch on there. At that time I was working 12-hour days, and then staying up late watching it. Even though it went on too late, ... http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2010/03/16/why-i-don%e2%80%99t-hate-the-ipl/ While some people have been watching the Dirk Nannes League I've been watching the Bangladesh England test for test match sofa (as I will be for the rest of the test). It may not have cheerleaders and Lionel Ritchie, but it does have Shakib Al Hasan. I've been a fan of his ... http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2010/03/13/shakib/ There was Lionel Ritchie singing with his microphone turned down. And other western acts. Some drag queen dancing acts, except with the drag queens. Bollywood stuff seemed to be happening as well. Costumes that some people were comparing to klu klux klan on twitter. Then Ravi yelled. Andy Bichel did some commentary, he sounded like ... http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2010/03/12/the-ipl-has-started/ What could be better than waking up on a sunny spring morning to the news that England have inexplicably been asked to bat on a docile pitch and have, for once, taken advantage of their good fortune. Mrs Skiver is looking as gorgeous as ever, Skiver Jr is being cute and ... http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2010/03/12/sleeping-at-the-wheel/