Cow Corner Blog

Grandma Hilda rejects IPL

Fri May 09 12:42PM

Luke Wright won the NBC Denis Compton Award for most promising youngster at his county for four years out of five between 2002 and 2007.

To win such an award once must be very pleasing for a young player. But being branded as "promising" for four years out of five - isn't that just insulting?

"Promising" means you're good, but not as good as you should be. "Promising" is a word that is only a complement when written on a school report card. As in: "Cowers is showing a promising ability with girls' bra-straps."

Anyway, yesterday Wright had what might be seen in subsequent years as his "Trescothick moment". Which means not that he started hyperventilating and sucking his security blanket the moment he stepped out of his house, but rather that he smashed an enormous score against the touring Kiwis in front of the watching England coach.

Trescothick's storming 167 for Somerset against Glamorgan at Taunton impressed soon-to-be England coach Duncan Fletcher enough to give him an international call-up the next summer. Wright's blistering 120 off only 131 balls for the England Lions at the Rose Bowl yesterday will similarly stick in the mind of the watching coach Peter Moores and selector Geoff Miller.

After the match, Wright was desperate to tell the world that he had turned down an offer to play in the IPL.

Whatever. The IPL have hardly been discriminate in their approaches, have they?

Cowers' 92-year-old Grandma Hilda, who hasn't stepped foot outside of her end-of-terrace two-up, two-down in Eccles for the last three years, turned down the IPL last week, and you don't hear her crowing about it.

Not that anyone would listen if she did. Grandma Hilda hasn't said anything that anyone has paid any attention to for roughly a decade.

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Great finish in the IPL yesterday as the Delhi Daredevils conceded 15 runs off the final over in a last-ball defeat to the Chennai Super Kings.

Daredevils captain Virender Sehwag said it was a choice between him and Shoaib Malik for the final over.

"I thought he would do a better job than me, so I gave it to him," Sehwag said.

Way to take responsibility, skipper...

If only Sehwag had saved a final over from Glenn McGrath, who finished with Test-esque figures of 0-23 off his four overs, proving that there is no substitute for 78mph, back-of-a-length seam, delivered with a snarl and enormous sense of smug self-satisfaction.

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BLINK AND YOU MISSED IT: After four days of sunshine, County Cricket is back in the hutch reading the Daily Telegraph with its feet up as a steady drizzle falls outside.

TALKING POINT: Cider - sweet or dry?

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I find the phase Trescothick moment as an insult to a Guy who happens to be ill at the moment. I do hope that this sort of illness does not visit you, idiot.
From reallyinxs on Fri May 09 01:41PM
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Read it again inxs, he says that Tresco scored a big score in front of Fletcher which resulted in him getting his call up. Idiot.
From the_kop2003 on Fri May 09 02:04PM
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lolol at that
From xdowntomylastx on Fri May 09 02:04PM
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Sometimes I wonder if people submit comments without taking the time to read the article they are commenting on... Anyway, what was it about the Trescothick moment? Jolly bad taste.
From g_hine on Fri May 09 02:11PM
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has millions of fans on my current dating site ' S u g a r m i n g l e . c o m Many of them are successful men and beautiful women. BTW, I heard that several celebrities join the site, including Britney, Hilton, Charlie Sheen, Justin, George Clooney, etc. The site is really HOT.
From aimee564332 on Fri May 09 02:14PM
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Little Boy Moffit played at ball wider than wide
And by chance swallowed a spider which spun its way down deep inside
But prior to that had drunk too much cider
Which was why he daft enough to play at a wide wider than wide
So the spider which spun its way down deep inside
Was drowned in the cider sloshing around inside his insides.
Freddie Trueman said "I once drank a pint at lunch and for half hour I felt I could play all day. After half hour I felt I had played all day."
From james_ssmith on Fri May 09 02:19PM
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Hmmm an advert for dating on cow corner. Does she not realise we have little interest in anything that isn't cricket.
Had she mentioned Ramps or KP, things might have been a bit different. Never mind dear.
From g_hine on Fri May 09 02:23PM
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Indeed, Mrs. Phil Edmonds once wrote, "Cricketers have two topics of conversation - Me and My Cricket - or sometimes for a change - My Cricket and Me." Not a great turn-on in the bedroom as the poor lads always claim "Sorry, dear, bad light stopped play and only intellectuals do it with the light on."
From james_ssmith on Fri May 09 02:37PM
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cue nasty imagery of Michael Atherton doing something unsavoury with the light on
From g_hine on Fri May 09 02:44PM
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Oh good god that made me laugh! The thought of Atherton in the bedroom is funny enough - but the fact you said "unsavoury" made me think of Athers scoffing on a pork pie in his pyjamas and when the lights flick on he looks like a deer in headlights and hastly shoves the pastry good under the covers!
Thankyou g_hine for sparking my imagination on this sh1tty friday!
From the_kop2003 on Fri May 09 02:57PM
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changing the subject a little, if i may, just wanted to comment on steve harmison's sulk about retiring if he doesnt get back in the england squad. does anyone else find this so typical of a man who appears to have no backbone whatsoever in adversity? he struggled with the white ball , so does he practice to master it? no, he retires from one-day internationals. seems another spot of self-centredness from a man who hasnt exactly overwhelmed anyone with his bowling for some years now. have england missed him? i think not. lets continue to pick players who will bowl their hearts out for their country, and not get homesick at anything more than 30 miles from the north east
From ninja27uk on Fri May 09 03:02PM
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Steve Harmison = Gutless. Botham can be friends with him all he wants. I say retire good sir you WILL NOT be missed. Ta.
From james_a_mcnair on Fri May 09 03:53PM
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He will be missed. Apparently he makes quite a good 12th man.
From g_hine on Fri May 09 03:58PM
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But we have Owais Shah for that...
From james_a_mcnair on Fri May 09 04:06PM
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Cider has to be dry...
From alagerdrinker on Fri May 09 04:56PM
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well, the likes of saj mahmood and luke wright can crow on about turning down offers from IPL - fact remains that the IPL is too good for any England cricketer with the exceptions of Freddie and KP - just look at Dimitri Mascarenhas, nice little earner for him cooling his heels on the bench, not able to find a place in Rajasthan Royals team, the franchise that spent the least in the auctions.. I rest my case m'lud
From arviemail on Fri May 09 05:21PM
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lol a lucylovesdavid has graced u as well Cow!!! u must be getting quite famous.
From umar2050 on Fri May 09 05:39PM
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i prefer my cider sweet.... tall glass, lots of ice. Too true about Wright maybe things will happen for him now, probably not but maybe. IPL is interesting no matter what the traditional folk say. If only ED could influence his 'soccer' chums could take a leaf out of the cricket book and make football a little more interesting.
From ddickzim on Sat May 10 12:18AM
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CRICKET IS A FANTASTIC GAME!
From samuelbanks on Sat May 10 04:49PM
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no isn't sanuelanks all of us know it, ok i admit 20-20 is good, some of those one day games are fairly ok as well, BUT test matches are a complete an utter fiasco.
even as a kid growing up in a country going mad with cricket fever and playing in numerous cricket acadimies in my childhood i dont like it much, i prefer footie even though my country sucks at it.
i quit watching abt 4-5 years ago, now i just look at the match reports and occasionally watch a few overs
From umar2050 on Sat May 10 10:18PM
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As regards Trescosthick, commenting on his condition is not doing him a disservice. But what exactly is wrong with him? What is a "stress-based condition" exactly? I do not know what he has but if he suffers from acute depresion it is nothing to be ashamed of so why not call it that? Thousnads of people suffer from it and admit to it, why is his problem based in such generic terms?
From lilfriend1999 on Sun May 11 04:38PM
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hey cowers - what time does cow corner come out everyday ? not when the cows are ready to come home I hope - it is 9.30 now and no sign of you
From arviemail on Mon May 12 09:34AM
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hi cowers - still no sign of the latest blog !! Las time it was 9.30 and now it is 1.30 - ARE YOU SERIOUS ??? THIS IS FOR EUROSPORT GUYS - IF YOU WANT GUYS MORE SERIOUS ABOUT PUTTING A MORE INTERESTING CRICKET BLOG ON TIME ON THE INTERNET, CONTACT ME AND FORGET COW - I WILL PUT A MORE INTERESTING BLOG ON THE NET IN TIME EVERYDAY and CALL IT "SILLY POINT" for good measure.... AND IF I DON'T BEAT ED IN THREE MONTHS, I WILL RESIGN...
From arviemail on Mon May 12 01:07PM
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I dont buy the Trescothick argument - guy is still playing cricket for his county - still scoring heavily - how come depression only sets in when he plays for England ? If he can't tour, he can play in only home tests and ODIs. Even otherwise the ECB is generous enough to pay for families to be on tour with him - the problem is something else.. OK we have to handle him with cotton wool but we also have to know what is the problem so that this doesn't arise with others in future - TRESCO if Cricket England owes you something, YOU ALSO owe something to CRICKET ENGLAND and MUCH, MUCH more... Just think what you would have been doing today without what Cricket did for you ??? Would you have earned half a decent living as what the game gave you, without it ? Don't just reach a comfortable level before turning your back on what gave you half a decent livelihood, in the first place..
From arviemail on Mon May 12 01:28PM
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HE IS A BOTTLER of the nTH ORDER IF BELIEVE YOU, ME..
From arviemail on Mon May 12 01:30PM
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