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November 27, 2018 · 1:52 pm

Errol Fernando’s Cricketing Delights This Week

Errol Fernando’s EMAIL NOTE to pals, 28 November 2018

I have enjoyed 3 contests – 4 if you include the Aussie ladies winning the World Cup against England which was extremely praiseworthy.

England  men won the 3rd Test against Sri Lanka despite a wonderful last wicket stand between numbers ten and eleven. Well done England winning 3-nil.

Pakistan levelled the series 1-1 against New Zealand 5 minutes ago. Yasir Shah took 14 wickets,equalling the 14 – wicket record of Imran Khan. When making his Man of the Match speech Yasir began by giving thanks to Allah.  When Shane Warne made his many MOM speeches. D o you recall whom he gave thanks to ??

Finally, Kohli won the third match against Australia,levelling the series 1-1. Everyone is expecting the Aussies to be thrashed  in the Test matches by Kohli’s Indians. However,I am not so sure about this. The Aussies have a fearsome bowling attack and I am not at all convinced by the Indian attack. It will not be a one-sided series.

 

 

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November 3, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Ball-tampering: A Fine-grained Legal Analysis

Peter Hunt, 14 September 2018, THE ROAR  where the title is  Ball tampering – a legal analysis and a call for reform”

It’s lunch on the third day of the third Test between Australia and South Africa in Cape Town and the Test series is at a critical stage.

A day which will live in infamy 
Australia won the first Test and South Africa won the second. Now, in the third, South Africa enjoys a 56-run lead on the first innings and at lunch, they have lost one wicket in accumulating 65 precious runs. So, with a lead of 121 runs and with nine second-innings wickets in hand, South Africa will resume shortly and look to block, cover drive, leave and square cut themselves into a position of comfort.

Cameron Bancroft of Australia talks to the umpire on the third day of the third cricket test between South Africa and Australia at Newlands Stadium, in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, March 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Halden Krog)

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October 7, 2018 · 1:36 pm

Neil Harvey: Wonderful Batsman, Simple Man, Modest Earnings

Gideon Haigh, in The Weekend Australian, 7 October 2018

Today, the world’s best batsman is a 29-year-old multi-millionaire with a sizeable portfolio of premium Sydney real estate — he also, of course, languishes under a year’s ban from cricket. Sixty-five years ago, by contrast, the world’s best batsman shared a bedroom with his younger brother. That summer of 1952-53, Neil Harvey had a season even more prolific than Steve Smith’s last: 834 runs in five Tests against South Africa and 1659 runs in 16 first-class matches, a total exceeded only by Donald Bradman.

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September 28, 2018 · 7:09 am

Harry Solomons: Cricketing Stalwart Beyond the Ordinary

Harry Solomons is a planters’ son and was educated at St. Aloysius College, Galle where he and his brother Mark were boarders. His love affair with cricket began then as he, as a little fellow, used to walk about with a bat. He was nicknamed Hassett because of this fact and due to a certain facial resemblance. No one knew then that Harry would end up in Hassett’s land and even meet The Don.

After he migrated, he set up the Kingsgrove Sports Centre in Sydney. This is a worldwide famous and has been a centre of activity for many visiting teams as well as the fraternity in Sydney. Harry and his mates have supported many charities everywhere — notably in Sri Lanka …….. and of course in Hikkaduwa and Galle. Just ask Kushil Gunasekera of FOG..So it can be saaid that Harry has more than fulfilled the Aloysian school motto; CERTA VIRILITER …. “strive valiantly.”

Moreover, Harry still wields a bat: he plays Oldies cricket as enthusiastically {albeit a little more gingerly) as he did at, and for, St Aloysius. Cheers, Mate.

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September 15, 2018 · 12:54 am

Sri Lanka’s Journey to Test Status via Alston Mahadevan’s Video Documentaries

ABSORB … setting aside about four hours

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September 3, 2018 · 10:13 am

Pulsating Test Cricket in England says Joe Root

Vipin Darwade in Cricket Age, 3 September 2018, with this title “India-England series shows Test cricket is alive and kicking”

The hard-fought five-match series against India shows that Test cricket is still alive and kicking, said skipper Joe Root after England secured a 60-run win in the fourth rubber to take a series-clinching 3-1 lead. “I think it’s a really good sign for Test cricket. It shows that for me Test cricket is still alive and kicking — very much at the pinnacle of the sport,” Root said.

“Credit to India — they’ve played some really fine cricket throughout, not just this game but the whole series. It must have been great viewing for people at home to see the way that especially the first game and this one, how tight they’ve been, how it swung both ways.”

Pic from Getty Images

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July 9, 2018 · 10:01 am

Cricket Here, There, Everywhere — with ESPNcricinfo

VISIT http://www.espncricinfo.com/thestands/content/gallery/1058493.html

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June 26, 2018 · 4:56 pm

An Indian Summer of Cricket in 1946 …. After One Storm and before Another

Anindya Dutta, courtesy of The Cricket Monthly and ESPNcricinfo, 25 June 2018, where the title runs “A dinner in 1946″

The year was 1946. England was caught between the exhilaration of emerging victorious from the Second World War and the devastation the war had wrought upon the country, both in terms of people and resources. Rationing was still in place, and the economy was in tatters.

 Lala Amarnath, Nawab of Pataudi snr and Shute Banerjee arrive in England for the 1946 tour

For six long years, while war raged, cricket had taken a backseat. There had been little first-class cricket, and the battlefields claimed some of England’s most talented players, like the venerated Hedley Verity. There were only 11 first-class matches in the 1945 season. Nineteen forty-six was the first year when a normal county season was scheduled and Test cricket could again be played. Cricket was seen as a way to restore a feeling of normalcy to a country severely affected by war and its consequences.

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June 23, 2018 · 2:41 pm

Ben Stokes is In His Sights: Ryan Patel of Surrey

Ryan Patel was born in Sutton in Surrey in 1997 and has played for England Under 19. Batting at No 4 for Surrey against Somerset this week, he scored 45 runs and then took six wkts for 05 runs in 3.5 overs in the Somerset fist innings with his rt arm medium bowling.

SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND – SEPTEMBER 07: Ryan Patel of Surrey plays to the offside as wicketkeeper Tom Alsop looks on during day three of the Specsavers County Championship Division One match between Hampshire and Surrey at the Ageas Bowl on September 7, 2017 in Southampton, England. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)

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June 12, 2018 · 5:55 pm

Memories: Trinity vs St. Anthony’s 1959

Errol Fernando: BIG MATCH 1959

My strongest memory of the Big Match 1959 is that our captain, Nimal Maralande, was banned from playing because he would be twenty on the second day of the game.  This rule had been implemented by the Principal of Trinity because for years we suspected that the Anthonians included overage players in their teams.  It was therefore ironical that in 1959 this very rule dealt a massive blow to Trinity.

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