Jarrod Kimber's Blog, page 104
September 3, 2010
for only a dollar a day you can save a Pakistani cricketer
Pakistani cricketers need your support!
The Cash For At Risk Cricketers Centre (formerly Cricket United's National Trust Society) in Lahore, Pakistan is an organisation, counselling service, safe haven, medical clinic, and education hub caring for vulnerable cricketers who need your help!
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Giving just a DOLLAR-A-DAY ($30 a month) for a year will help sponsor a cricketer and give them a chance at avoiding life bans.
The at risk cricketers, from test to t20, have survived terrible collapses and...
September 2, 2010
Exclusive: Cricket Australia give two players life bans for betting on Test Matches
Cricket Australia (CA) has given two very high profile Australian cricketers life bans to prove that they are serious about cleaning up the game of cricket.
The decision follows a breach of team rules and ICC regulations during an Ashes test match that Australia went on to lose.
CA Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland said Dennis Lillee and Rodney Marsh would be given life bans from playing cricket from Australia and would the ICC would be informed of this decision immediately.
Pending ICC a...
August 31, 2010
Taking the positives from Pakistan's spot fixing crisis
We can all sit down and think about how shit this all this is. Or we can look for positives. Or at the very least ways people can sound smugger. If you all can't get at least one positive (smug statement) from these, you just aren't trying hard enough.
Honours Bored
North, Watson and Stuart Broad all have their names on the Honours board at Lord's. Frankly, I couldn't give a shit, but if this bothers you, mentally you can put an asterisk next to them. Or you can do a lord's tour and just...
My £150,000 Worth
It is difficult to find anything new to say on the whole match fixing story, at least at this stage, so what follows is a very personal view.
For my part, I haven't believed that cricket was 100% clean for several years. Not since the Cronje affair. But I could never see how anyone would fix an element of a game.
It always seemed too complicated, too risky, to fix the batting element. It is all very well to bet on a batsman getting a duck, and paying him to get a duck, but suppose some...
August 30, 2010
spot fixing in print
The last edition of the cricket sadist's quarterly had a piece on spot fixing written by me. It's now tragically out of date, but I think it's worth a read.
About a year ago a cricketer contacted me to talk about fixing in cricket. He was positive it was happening again, at ICL, IPL and International level. He even specified games that he and others thought it had happened in. I checked into these games and came up with other reasons why things happened the way they did.
The player was...
August 29, 2010
10 things that could happen to you that would be worse than Pakistani players spot fixing in a test match
10. Tony Grieg arrives at your door step.
"No need to grovel, I'll happily come in and spend all night chatting to you and your Asian bride".
9. You could be giving birth to a child and ask for a an epidural and have Allan Border come in.
"If you can't hack it, let's get a tough Queenslander out here - get me Greg Ritchie".
8. You could find yourself in a 7 hour press conference of a former great international as he battles rumours that he is gay.
"I'm not gay, not that there is anything wrong ...
August 28, 2010
Fuck off match fixers
I want to work in cricket.
Not because it makes me rich, not because I'll ever play for my country, and not because I think it is a cool job.
I do it because cricket is something that I love.
Since I was a child it has been the one constant in my life. My first overseas trip was for cricket. When I was a kid I slept with a new bat in my dead. My Friday afternoons were all about working out the best fielding positions for the next day. I spent days on end sitting the MCG with no one else...
Pakistan, welcome to hell
Mr Pakistan, a dashing figure with long flowing silky smooth hair and a three day growth, enters the room. He was fairly unsure of why he was there, and he also couldn't remember how he got there, but there he was, in the room.
It was a white room with a signed picture of Paris Hilton in the corner, although the signature was from Shoaib Akhtar. There was also a chair, and Mr Pakistan sat down. As he did a projector started up and on it was Mark Nicholas swaying from side to side.
"Hello, Mr...
August 27, 2010
August 26, 2010
what the players think of 45 overs split innings matches
Not long ago I wrote about the Cricket Australia plan to dice up the one day game.
What do I care. I don't like one day cricket that much and I'll hardly see any of the games.
But, the players have much more an interest in it, so why not let them chat about it.
So here is two differing opinions from current Australian domestic players.
Due to contracts, I have to not name one of the players, I'm sure you'll understand why.
Positive:
I'm sure @CricketAus have put a lot of research into it...
