Author: |Posted: 1:00 pm on 20/07/09
Category: Snowblog
Er… within minutes of my posting this morning, that critical wicket fell and I was proved to be the ignoramus I admitted being in my original posting.
I can only say that England tried a lot harder this morning than they were doing last night.
But it is an incredible thought that having beaten this bogey of no win against the aussies at Lords since 1934, it is worth mentioning that my grandpa who had been to the relief of Khartoum in the 1870s, may well have watched the match in 1934 and will certainly have read about it.
Anyway, collapse of stout party I’m off to nurse my credibility and my wounds.
Author: |Posted: 10:19 am on 20/07/09
Category: Snowblog
For what it is worth, and it is worth very little, I think the Aussies are going to win the Lords test today.
They will get the remaining 200 runs with one wicket to spare, and I say this after watching them for the two hours before bad light stopped play last night and watching most of Saturday too. read more
Author: |Posted: 7:20 pm on 05/03/09
Category: World News Blog
I’ve just interviewed Sri Lanka’s top spin bowler, Muttiah Muralitharan, about a story that’s doing the rounds. Conspiracy? Collusion with terrorists? He says it’s just a load of spin.
Was the attack on the Sri Lanka test team and the umpires an inside job? Quite an allegation – but that’s what’s been suggested.
The Pakistan captain, Younus Khan told a news conference yesterday: “Thank God we decided to leave our hotel five minutes after the Sri Lankans.” He put it down to good fortune.
But eyebrows have been raised over this unexplained five-minute delay between the departure from the Pearl Continental Hotel of the Sri Lankan team bus and the Pakistan team bus. read more
Author: |Posted: 4:04 pm on 03/03/09
Category: World News Blog
I’ve just had a very insightful chat with Ahmed Rashid, doyen of the Lahore journalism set, the best-selling Taliban-Qaida watcher and described by Christopher Hitchens as “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter”. His latest book, Descent into Chaos, documents Pakistan’s apocalyptic downward spiral.
So what did he make of what went on in the upmarket Gulberg district at 9 o’clock this morning? “Pakistan,” he said to me, ominously, “is running away with its crises. It doesn’t bode well.” read more
