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Brett Lee may not be Indy but he does know some Hindi. Update 9/1/07: The SMH has more on Brett Lee’s singing career.

My partner and I have been listening to a bit of cricket and news, and grimacing every time they get to the Ashes broadcast. Every bloody announcer, on commercial radio and telly, and even on Aunty ABC, has been describing the Australians’ treatment of the Poms as a whitewash. This run of Aussie victories has [...]

Well, Justin Langer is going to walk away after Sydney as well, in many ways a less surprising decision than Damien Martyn’s pin-pull after Adelaide. Langer has been hit on the head repeatedly throughout his career: a footballer put through the same ringer would have hobbled out of the game by now, likely with permanently [...]

Justin Langer has confirmed that he will retire after the Fifth Ashes Test.

A happy new year and a propserous 2007 to all the sidelined readers, lurkers, commentors, contributors and anyone else I’ve forgot to mention (except the spammers). A great year of sport is ahead and reading the SMH this morning, I had that first delicious tingle of anticipation for the coming NRL season. The Ashes may [...]

…Jason Gillespie with 231 according to the final test cricket averages for 2006. Mohammed Yousuf broke Viv Richard’s 30 year recored for most runs in a calendar year with 1,788 at 99.33. Bowling went to Muttian Muralitharan with 90 wickets (6 short of Warney’s record) at 16.90.