Responding to the Beginners' Guide to Cricket Mailbag
Thanks to Bill Humphries, Cheryl Morgan and someone I don't even know at SportsFilter.com called "billsaysthis" for posting links to my humble cricket guide. As a result, my guide has generated an unprecendented amount of mail and comments. My responses follow:
You can all stop writing—I will not withdraw my inflamatory comments about the utter, utter, utter lameness of one-day cricket.
There was no particular Australian bias to my description of cricket basics. I'm offended by the inference.
Okay, yes, I was discussing only international cricket, not first class. Didn't want to confuse the beginners by going into the intricacies of all the different levels of cricket around the world. I've never known how you compare the Sheffield Shield (no, I bloody won't call it by its stupid new name) to county cricket in the UK or the inter-island contest in the West Indies.
No, Shane Warne is not a god. But pretty nifty comeback, eh? I particularly enjoyed the sight of him fagging up as he waited to bat in Sri Lanka.
"Innings" is plural and singular because "innings" is plural and singular.
Sorry for not talking enough about Tendulkar/Lara/Ntini/Murali. I'll discuss them all in my Stars of Cricket musing which I'll post any day now. Or I would if I could bring myself to stop writing about Keith Miller. Sigh. Twenty-five thousand words and still counting. There's just so much to say about that man.
Beer should never be warm, but yes, Cricket is God.
Sydney, 7 April 2004
© 2004 Justine Larbalestier
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