As an antidote to England getting fisted royally far away, I was trawling through my copy of Wisden 1923 last night, and came across an account of Warwickshire against Hampshire at Edgbaston in that year. In reply to Warwickshire's 220, Hampshire were all out for 15. Following on, they were still in deep trouble as they reached 186 for 6. Wonderfully, from there they made a second innings total of 523 and won the match by 155 runs.
Olden days cricket- well mental!
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That's quite a coincidence - I was looking at Wisden '23 last night too! Missed that scorecard, however.
Up until the moment Jimmy unfurled his sweep today, I still held hopes of Ravi redeeming himself with a 50-ball 150 to steal the match from the Indians on the final ball.
I haven't really been following it today but I know we won the toss. Anyone know why the hell we bowled?
Pitch had a very greenish tinge to it, on first impressions.
Dhoni admitted he would've bowled first if he'd won the toss.
It turned out it was a belter of a wicket; a fact that the Indian batsmen cottoned onto exceptionally quickly and that the English batsmen did not (despite being present as the Indians compiled their massive total). Not entirely sure how we can claim to be developing as a one-day side when we demonstrate so CLEARLY a complete inability to adapt our playing style to the conditions when said conditions are being SO patently evidenced.
Mickey and indeed Mouse.
There's a joke in there somewhere about Mickey Moores- as the coach, shouldn't he be outlining some kind of coherent plan to our players who are patently too stupid to make one for themselves? I know it's ridiculous to blame one man, but I'm going to anyway.
Pinhead- shouldn't you be writing an essay about Zygotsky or something?
Yes, I should.
I am currently avoiding finishing an essay about embedding ICT into the context of narrative writing and also avoiding starting one about the contributions lesson evaluations make to my development as a Reflective Practitioner.
Oh, I'm also avoiding doing lesson plans for the placement that I'm on.
And I'm managing (not) to do all of this whilst having a shocking head cold.
I rock.
Kris- the power of the primary teacher is awesome- it's all worth it. At the end of last year KS1 put on a dance interpretation of 'Dinosaurs and all that rubbish.' My Year 2 class was charged with portraying the scene in which the beautiful earth is destroyed by industry and mechanisation. The song choice was obvious. Now imagine hundreds of parents watching a class of six year-olds marching in hard hats to Kommeniezunspeit by Tom Waits. Who could ask for more in a job?
The day when I feel like I have any "power" seems a long way off currently.
The force is weak in this one.
:-(
Any assistance required- practical or spiritual?
May bend your ear at a more appropriate time (and via a more appropriate medium!)
Anyway, Wisden 1923 - what the fricking Nora were you doing with that?!
What more appropriate medium could there be for practical pedagogy advice than on a crap cricket blog full of swearing.
As for the wisden- it's either that or lord of the rings again.
Are you trawling charity shops for any old Wisdens, thereby attempting to put together a full collection; or was 1923 a particular target for some reason?!
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