Cow Corner Blog

What is Hong Kong famous for?- A dense population (not in the remedial class at your local comp way)- Not being British anymore- Every schoolboy's favourite racecourse - Sha Tin- Lending its name to the greatest ever cartoon character - Cricket???No not really but Pakistan are playing an one-day international today which...More

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"It is a lot of fun and I am doing something for a place that I love to be in." Allen Stanford, the Antigua-based billionaire who is bankrolling the Twenty20 revolution in the West Indies.What he meant: "I've got more money than I know what to do with. I sleep...More

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MATCH SCORECARDEng 160 all out - New Zealand win by 22 runs to level the series at 1-1. Tremlett attacks Elliott, looking for a vital boundary, but instead sends it sky-high and arrowing down into the waiting, safe hands of his skipper Vettori. England fall apart late on after Collingwood and Swann had seemed...More

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Normally when you fight the law, the law wins. But in cricket when you fight the law, the law changes.The International Cricket Council have moved swiftly - going against the rules set down in Bobby Fuller's 1965 ditty - by giving umpires the power to reduce the length of the...More

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This is Cow Corner coming through strong on channel 19. Do you Roger, cottonpickers? We got a brake-check going on in the B-Town. Seems we got a dead pedal commin' back off the hammer, must be some Smokey Bears takin' pictures up there. This is Cowers, backing out. Over.Cowers has...More

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NZ 127-2 (19 overs) - Styris gets a fortunate outside edge to the fence off Wright. New Zealand need seven off the 20th over to win the game AND the players come off for rain. It's ABANDONED - a complete farce if you consider that the players had a 30 minute...More

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Another series victory for Australia - 2-0 over the West Indies - is it an ominous sign for England ahead of next summer's Ashes? Well let's be honest if Glenn McGrath hadn't trod on that ball, if the selectors had picked Mike Hussey and if Shane Warne had caught that...More

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Rent-a-quote Kevin Pietersen didn't really need to re-invent himself as world cricket's first switch hitter to get plenty of newspaper column inches.After all he scored 98 runs from 110 balls yesterday in the one-dayer against New Zealand right-handed, it was just the 12 he scored in southpaw style that has...More

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NZ 193 (42.5 overs) - Two wickets for Collingwood in the 41st over as Hopkins cuts to Bopara at backward point and Vettori pulls to Anderson at deep mid-wicket. The skipper picks up his third and fourth in the next over as Mills pulls Wright to mid-wicket and Southee picks out Bell...More

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Eng 127-1 (17.3 overs) - Bell pulls Flynn through mid-wicket to finish 60 not out and that's it. England coast to a nine-wicket victory. Join us on Sunday morning for the first one-day international from the Riverside.BALL-BY-BALL SCORECARD  Eng 108-1 (15 overs) - Pietersen sweeps Scott Styris to the pickets at...More

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