Poor old Marcus likes being on the receiving end of a milestone, doesn't he? First he was Glenn McGrath's 500th Test wicket, now he is Shane Warne's 600th - and with the very same dismissal, Adam Gilchrist's 300th as wicketkeeper.
Aye, six hundred - when I were a lad you only needed 300 wickets for a world record. I can recall vivdly, back in February 1976, Ian Redpath getting out to Lance Gibbs at the MCG and then walking up the pitch to shake the Guyanese offie's hand for being his 308th Test victim, taking him one clear of Frederick Seward Trueman.
Oh dear. In the last hour I have had two messages, one via email and one via a blog comment, with questions to put to Dean Jones and Greg Matthews. Please read Google carefully.
Cathryn Fitzpatrick had already held her 21st birthday party when Holly Colvin was born. Not turning sixteen till September 7, Colvin became the youngest Test cricketer for the English women on Tuesday. She paid dividends for England by taking three wickets on the opening day of the Hove Test against Australia - Kate Blackwell, Julia Price and Fitzpatrick - but at day's end was not allowed to talk to the media.
They don't make cricket balls like they used to. Only seven days after Glenn McGrath trod on one in pre-match training at Edgbaston, he is back in action for Australia in the Third Test at Old Trafford. Brett Lee has also had a miracle cure, so there's no room for (a) Mike Kasprowicz (b) Shaun Tait (c) Stuart Clark (d) Stuart MacGill (e) all of the above.
Michael Vaughan won the toss and elected to bat. Half an hour into the first session, England are 19 without loss. The burning question of the day is: who will be Warnie's Number 600?
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Podcast: The Net Sessions
The US papers are starting to catch wind of their nation's latest cricketing debacle. Even if the Baltimore Sun chooses to package it all under a Jiminy pun.
The Sun's sports columnist, Mr and Mrs Side's little boy named The Flip, is more taken by the fact that, bearing in mind that cricket games can take a long time, "the man in charge of the sport is named Speed". If only The Flip realised that the man running (ruining?) the sport in the States is a man named Dainty.
The women's Ashes Test series began at Hove on Tuesday. I don't know why the ECB insists on scheduling women's tours in parallel with their male compatriots. Australia had to do it in 2001 and England toured Australia as the men's tour was winding up in early 2003.
It's a hundred years since Bart King, America's greatest cricketer of all time, graced the playing fields of both his own country and of England as a world-class all-rounder. It was Sunday, August 6, 1905, that five thousand people watched a New York XI lose by fifty runs to the MCC in a two-day game at the Staten Island Cricket Club.
After the exhiliration of Edgbaston, Test cricket came crashing back to earth with a thud at the Harare Sports Club yesterday. What can you say about a team that allows Daniel Vettori to score a Test match hundred in 82 balls?
Monday - Day Two of the First Test - began with Zimbabwe about to commence their first innings. Eighty overs later, they had lost by an innings and 294 runs. And this after New Zealand scored 452 for 9 on Sunday, including said Vettori's 127 from 98 deliveries.
Sensational but not entirely unexpected news from the ICC (that's International Cricket Council, not the International Criminal Court). The USA has been kicked out of the 2005 Inter-continental Cup, with the Cayman Islands taking their place in the Americas group.
This just in:
ICC WITHDRAWS USACA ICC INTERCONTINENTAL CUP INVITATION, CAYMAN ISLANDS OFFERED PLACE IN GLOBAL TOURNAMENT
