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The cricket catch-up thanks to Twitter, Part Two

Submitted by rickeyre on January 30, 2010 - 12:16pm

Part two of my annotated log of cricketing thoughts as tweeted over the summer holiday period. Some tweets have been deleted for reasons of clarity and sanity.

January 2, 2010:

#cricket I probably won't get around to blogging it, but my cricketer of the 2000s is Muttiah Muralitharan. Runner-up: Adam Gilchrist. 10:13 AM Jan 2nd

#cricket I find it hard to get used to the Sydney Test starting on January 3, not January 2 12:24 PM Jan 2nd

Dickie Knees

Submitted by rickeyre on January 5, 2006 - 5:00am

It all makes sense, you know...

Makhaya Ntini injured his knee during the Second Test at Melbourne
An injured knee is known as a "dicky knee"
Dickie Knee was a puppet on the 1990s Channel Nine variety program "Hey Hey It's Saturday"
The voice of Dickie Knee was played by prominent Melbourne radio identity John Blackman
Shane Warne called Makhaya Ntini "John Blackman" because he was batting with a dicky knee.

Shane, you may be, as you told the world in 1998, "naive and stupid", but we're not. Even if that is all there is to the remark, how utterly dopey was it to use the word "Blackman" to a black South African opponent in any context?

Warne should have been disciplined for disrepute for the sheer insensivity of the remark, and it reflects poorly on all those in the Australian camp who condoned it.

Anyway, take a look at this article in the Sunday Herald Sun for a startling revelation about the real Dickie Knee.