Rick Eyre's Contributions

Fair point about Belinda Clark (no "e") scoring the first ODI double hundred of either gender. One caveat to that innings, however, is that the Danish team was very weak, and their national women's cricket association disbanded a few years later through lack of registered players! However, a World Cup fixture is a World Cup fixture, and Clark was a cricketer of the highest order. No other woman has bettered 173 in an ODI against any nation.

Will Tendulkar’s record score ever be broken?

26 Feb 2010

oh all right then: Hobbs, Trumper, Bradman, Hammond, Grace (c), Miller, Botham, Knott, Warne, Laker, Barnes. Steve Waugh can drive the giant Gatorade bottle.

Selecting an all-time Ashes Eleven

27 Jan 2010

I'm confused. You name 12 players in an all-time XI and then add a 12th man to make a team of 13! And with the next Ashes almost a year out, why is this being raised now? And why John Snow, whose Ashes infamy is confined to a couple of Tests in one series? Why is Bradman the only 1948 Australian in your team - and, at the same time, its captain? Where are O'Reilly, Grimmett, Laker, Verity? Where is Miller? Hammond? WG Grace??? Why are eight out of your thirteen players post-1970 (and even then without Steve Waugh)? I'll come back and think up an Ashes XI of my own in November, when it's topical :)

Selecting an all-time Ashes Eleven

27 Jan 2010