Reasons why I love Mickey Arthur

He's not afraid to admit that he may be balding

Has the greatest slogans and mottos. Inspirational speaker in the making seeing as half the members of the squad have that positive 'vibe'. Apart from Johan Botha that is who is always eerily calm. No matter what the situation.

Manages to still regain dignity and an aura even after he jumped into the sea as an agreement he had made if they had won the series in Australia.

Doing the above point topless wearing pink shorts

Letting the team have chocolate cake that time in Pakistan (it might have been Bangladesh) after the Springboks had won the world cup. From photo's it looked like it was early morning.

MOTM gotten wrong?

Things just don't seem to add up after last night's ODI between Australia and South Africa.

AB scored 80 off 87 ballls (strike rate of 91.95) whereas Kallis made 70 of 86 balls (strike rate of 81.39)

Then Ab took an awesome catch and Kallis did his usual bowling lot of 4 overs for no wickets.

BUT then the Man of the Match was given to Kallis?? Hmm Interesting.

Cricketers getting honoured

Could life as cricketer get any better. There's already the money, travelling the world, the chicks and now.... In Georgetown (the West Indies) Shiv Chanderpaul has gotten a street named after him. Yes you heard correctly a street! Move over OBE!

AB: Man of passion

Well that's quite a tender moment.

AB: *sultry voice* Shall we dance?

*AB's New Video*

AB has posted the next long awaited video of the South Africans behind the scenes. In this installment we see Hashim 'Hash' Amla celebrate his 26th Birthday with the customary well wishes and hopes to score more runs.

Highlights include:

South African's singing Happy Birthday out of tune.


AB focusing up close of Albie's ICC anti doping form, and then both of them saying 'drugs' and bursting out into giggles


The knowledge that AB beat JP in a table tennis game which subsequently means no one wants to play it with him, seen when he asked Graeme if he wants to play

Hashim's cake being very very nice looking. Quick someone hide it from Kallis!

All in all it made for a very entertainful viewing.

Candid Camera

Shaun Pollock: What?! Everyone told me they would be wearing yellow!!

Australia vs South Africa 3rd ODI

So these are Cricinfo's players to look out for in today's 3rd ODI:

Watch out for: The biggest surprise out of the Centurion match was how dangerous Wayne Parnell can be with the new ball. His early swing and accuracy was the key reason Australia's top order collapsed and he was named the Man of the Match in his second one-day international. As a left-armer he adds variety to an already dangerous South African attack and he has the potential to be a useful allrounder, although his batting is yet to be seen at international level.

Another fresh face in this series is Callum Ferguson, who is only six matches into his ODI career but already is building a reputation as Australia's middle-order stabiliser. He was the only one of the specialist batsmen to shine in Centurion, where his 50 saved Australia from an even more embarrassing result, and he performed a similar steadying role against New Zealand at the Gabba. The mature, level-headed approach is a positive sign as Australia go through some enforced restructuring of their batting line-up.

Now the question is who will upstage who. The battle begins.

Guess who's back

In between shaving his head and doing ads for this and that Symonds is BACK for the billionth time. We were all expecting it, being a total tool is right up there on Cricket Australia's list of values. Every morning James Sutherland goes for his morning jog chanting over and over again "We're tools, We're cools, We're the Aussie Cricket Team"

Important CA person: So you promise to be on your best behaviour?
Symonds: I'm a good boy now. Tea and Biscuits for me from now on.
Important CA person: But you hate tea?
Symonds: What? I love tea. How dare you accuse me?! *picks up a chair and continouly bashes the head of the important CA person*
Important CA person: .....

Symonds: Oh no I've killed him! I've killed him! No way will they let me back in the team now!! Gotta think. Gotta think...

several seconds later

Aha if I leave this note on his body No One will ever suspect me.

Dear who everz readingz this,
Andrew Symonds did not kill the important CA person I did.... The Symonds look alike.... Plz lets Andrew Symonds back on the team he is so cool....... Plus let him stay out late and go visit night clubs.... becuase i said so...
Signed anonymousss.

*Slinks out the room*

No harm intended to the Australian Cricket Fans but something about Symonds trigger's me to get angry.

Test XI of 2008

THE WISDEN TEST XI OF 2008
V. Sehwag (India)
§G. C. Smith (South Africa)
R. T. Ponting (Australia)
S. R. Tendulkar (India)
K. P. Pietersen (England)
S. Chanderpaul (West Indies)
*†M. S. Dhoni (India)
Harbhajan Singh (India)
M. G. Johnson (Australia)
D. W. Steyn (South Africa)
Zaheer Khan (India)

§ Vice-captain

Point's of Interest

• There's only two South African's named in that whole line up. Seriously someone better break the news lightly to Aswhell Prince we don't want him burning down Wisden headquarters.
• The writer of the article is named Scyld Berry which sounds made up, methinks it's the BCCI CEO under a screen name.
• More and more people are starting to think Johnson is allrounder material hopefully that nightmare never never never starts to become reality.

Spotlight on Wayne Parnell

He's goes by the name of Wayne 'Parny' Parnell. Prone to being the victim of laser lights he's the new kid on the block!

And now the countdown begins how long will it be till he's approached by those ever hungry IPL teams..... *waiting music*

My name's Parnell... Wayne Parnell*

* Anyone with a name like that deserves to be noticed.

Candid Camera

Just when you thought the camera's weren't on you.
Graeme iniating JP into the ways of the South Africans

Mickey's a- staying

Mickey's staying! After a couple of weeks of will he won't he. He's denied going after that ''much coveted' position also known as the England coach. Who blaims him an hour of Kevin Peter Pietersen could honestly make anyone go crazy. And also the fact Graeme Smith knows where he lives so things could get a bit nasty if it goes down that path.

This also means CSA won't have to use *Plan C* ....
And none of us want it to go that far...

Introducing ~ Peachy Maiden

First up I'm new to this whole blogging experience but am slowly getting there!

Am a Melbournian with an allegiance to the Proteas something about the Australian team just doesn't charm me. This could be entirely due to the fact that they have the Morkel brothers and AB de Villiers.