Australia Searching for Identity

No Comments 17 May 2012

Image: Ed Cowan has had a mixed start to his Test career

MATTHEW WOOD, of Balanced Sports, believes the current Australian side is a team with an identity crisis.

Despite two consecutive series wins in vastly different circumstances, the Australian cricket team still tricks the eye. In one Test, Ed Cowan resembles a doughty old-school opener, capable of withstanding the best attacks in world cricket; the following, he disappears into the sheds at 1/11. During one match, Shane Watson fights indomitably for a hard-earned 80; the next, he plays over and around a nothing-ball and departs meekly. In any one series Australia is likely to employ seven different bowlers.

World Cricket Feature

My Favourite Cricketer….Justin Langer

No Comments 10 May 2012

As part of our continuing series, World Cricket Watch and Balanced Sports invited Glenn Mitchell, sports broadcaster and mental health advocate, to write about his favourite cricketer, Justin Langer. Glenn’s website is glennmitchell.com.au and he tweets @mitchellglenn

I clearly remember standing in the middle of a rain-soaked Sinhalese Sports Club in September 1999 as the third and final Test of the Sri Lanka-Australia series came to a very wet conclusion and the hosts on the precipice of a historic 1-nil series win.

Beneath the light drizzle that day I had a chat with Justin Langer near the heavily covered pitch.

Podcasts

One Hand One Bounce Special with Adam Hollioake

No Comments 02 May 2012

Listen to the Cricket Podcast that Plays by Backyard Rules

Audio, 1st May 2012: 41 minutes

DAVID SIDDALL, MURRAY MIDDLETON and LOUIS CAMERON chat to ex-England cricketer turned cage-fighter ADAM HOLLIOAKE ahead of his MMA professional debut this Saturday. Plus we review the week in cricket and give out those coveted awards.

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Podcasts

One Hand One Bounce Weekly Cricket Podcast 71

No Comments 25 April 2012

Listen to the Cricket Podcast that Plays by Backyard Rules

Audio, 24th April 2012: 25 minutes

DAVID SIDDALL and MURRAY MIDDLETON review the week in cricket including Australia in the West Indies and some strange happenings in IPL 5. We found out how Worcestershire sauce is made and give out those coveted weekly awards.

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Special Thanks to this week’s podcast hero of the week – JONATHAN HOWCROFT – who helped solve the Worcstershire sauce riddle.

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1. Emailing the team at worldcricketwatch@gmail(dot)com

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About One Hand One Bounce

World Cricket Watch has assembled a crackpot team in the desperate hope of creating the greatest cricket podcast on the web. When we first came up with the idea for the show it was based on the notion that great podcasts rely on great conversations, and that cricket, more than any other sport, provides the perfect backdrop for conversation that can reach beyond the specificities of sport to culture and society. We all know that the best cricket writing is also a great way of finding out about the particularities of a given time or place, and we hoped that a podcast could do the same.