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From now until mid-October there will be new cricket almost every day on this website as India and England, our main focus, head for Tests, odis and T20. It should be enough for any fan but for those who demand more Corbett they can now find 600 words in the Hindu every Saturday and 900 words once a fortnight in Sportstar. Why don't I still write a diary? I am often asked; the answer is simple. I no longer have day to day contact with cricketers, such as the breakfast in Kanpur with Dean Jones that produced my most famous diary paragraph about the day he saved Australia with that magnificent undefeated innings, his first Test century and lost his toothbrush. You have to be in the middle of the action to hear such stories.
Shiv alive
Posted at 10:10 on Sunday 20th May 2012
England v West Indies at Lord's First Test fourth day Before a ball was bowled . . . This match is still wide open. If Chanderpaul and Samuels bat another couple o...
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Ting-a-ling
Posted at 08:32 on Saturday 19th May 2012
England v West Indies at Lord's First Test third day Before a ball was bowled . . . A few runs from Bell would be nice but, and not just for this website, the real excit...
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Retiring Ramps
Posted at 09:33 on Wednesday 16th May 2012
Mark Ramprakash has been dropped by Surrey after a succession of low scores at the start of this wet summer. Now he has a choice. Does he carry on ba...
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Bairstow in
Posted at 13:06 on Sunday 13th May 2012
I've told you about Jonny Bairstow before. He is the son of David, England and Yorkshire wicket-keeper batsman 25 years ago, adopted in a cricketing sense by Geoff Boycott who saw his promise early. He hit 41 in his first one-dayer for England,...
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Predator intelligence
Posted at 16:47 on Wednesday 9th May 2012
Just in case you are interested - or you have wondered why this blog has been lightly used recently - the missus and I have had a bit of trouble. My niece - Jo Pavey, but not the Olympian Jo Pavey - and the same first name as t...
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At last!
Posted at 09:08 on Tuesday 1st May 2012
At last - I might say at long last - the ECB have acted to make more sense of the residency rules which allow cricketers, mainly from South Africa, to play for England. In future they will have to have lived and played in my country for seven y...
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Beware the Shiv
Posted at 11:27 on Monday 30th April 2012
Shivnarine Chanderpaul is the great deceiver. He crawls to the wicket, splays his legs far apart, turns half towards the bowler, lifts his bat not too high and suddenly the ball is flying towards the boundary. He began as a 19-year-old son of a...
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Batsman's block
Posted at 11:49 on Sunday 29th April 2012
Young Nick Compton - he is 28 but he is the grandson of the immortal Denis and it is necessary to make a neat distinction - was at it again yesterday, knocking the ball back to the bowler, blocking difficult deliveries and concentrating in a wa...