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Renegade Ryan meets Dragon Juniors

Ryan Carters from the new Melbourne Renegades met with participants of Barkly Street Uniting CC’s Dragon Junior Cricket Program at Robert Barrett Reserve near Highpoint Shopping Centre last evening. Ryan was asked numerous questions at an end of training autograph session with discussion ranging from how to warm up before a game; how to faceContinue reading “Renegade Ryan meets Dragon Juniors”

Cricket Willow by Ben Liney

Ben Liney images capture the sights, seasonal rhythm & beautiful surrounds of Cricket Willow, Shepherds Flat during Marcus Curnow’s Twenty20=40 Big Birthday Bash, September 10-11, 2011

10 Questions for Batters and Bowlers

Some helpful questions for understanding the intricacies of the art of cricket… http://cricketingview.blogspot.com/2011/08/10-questions-about-bowlers-and-batsmen.html#more

The Rise of Afghani Cricket

Good article on the rise and rise of Afghani Cricket http://www.torontosun.com/2011/08/06/in-afghanistan-cricket-more-than-a-game

The Return of JP Cornford

MEDIA RELEASE After weeks of rumours and speculation, JP Cornford has announced that he will return to cricket at Marcus E Curnow’s 40 BIG BASH on September 10 & 11. After struggling with long-term injury and a little-known-about gambling addiction, Cornford has stated that he now feels ready again in body and mind to doContinue reading “The Return of JP Cornford”

Cricket & the Black Dog of Depression

“Go back to the very start,” he said, “and you have to ask the question, is it cricket that acts as a catalyst for mental illnesses or is it the people who are drawn to it?” – Iain O’ Brien as quoted in Ed Cowan’s insightful piece on depression in cricket.

Test Cricket & Time

Test cricket is not a three-hour Bollywood epic, or an ’80s-style four-hour Springsteen concert, or even a day at the beach. Test cricket junkies are more than just quantifiable “consumers” of cricket; they are emotional participants in an unscripted drama that becomes days of their lives. – Sharda Ugra “The Sport That Makes Clocks Melt”

Barkly Street 4th XI vs. Sunshine Heights 2008-9

Good Cricket Allround Moments: I found this on the Sunshine Heights CC Annual Report 2008-9 and smiled about my memories of one of those ‘first vs. last’ encounters that good cricket is all about! -Marcus 🙂 Round 4 saw us on the road again and getting a bit of a habit to Robert Barrett playingContinue reading “Barkly Street 4th XI vs. Sunshine Heights 2008-9”

Bat Making with Lachlan Fisher

Photos by Ben Liney http://www.benliney.com (all rights reserved) For my last birthday, family and friends chipped in for an experience of learning how to make my own cricket bat with Lachlan Fisher at his Williamstown Road workshop in Footscray. Not only is Lachlan a master bat maker but he stands in a unique tradition as aContinue reading “Bat Making with Lachlan Fisher”

Date queries ‘Fire in Babylon’

The title, Fire in Babylon, promised much. But do you really think that Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards (KNH, OBE) and Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge (MBE) were in any way pioneering post-colonial heroes? …batsmen before them had been the best in the world in their time. But those players played before the Age of Television, beforeContinue reading “Date queries ‘Fire in Babylon’”