We were at Trent Bridge to farewell the big fella from Test cricket and we will also be at Eden Park to give him a send-off from the international game. Just wish we could have been at the West Indies World Cup doing it, that’s all. Cairnsy has always been the type of player who you get excited to see involved in the game. When a wicket falls, you’d yell: “Cairns is in!” and bodies would come scrambling in to watch the telly from all over the house and garden. Brilliant memories of seeing him play live include the barrage of sixes at Lord’s in the first Test in 2004; his glorious century against South Africa last season; his murderous assault on Zimbabwe back in our university days; and blitzing Brett Lee (hooking him over the hotdog stand) & Shane Warne (that turn 90 degrees and boom six over the legside) on a wintry Wellington day against Australia in 2001… We’ll miss you and your moustache. Dylan Cleaver has written a nice piece on Cricinfo just now too.
Even Rosemary Macleod has unleashed on the lesbian kissing fiasco that has swept the world. We will be sending her a Beige Brigade shirt, even though she hates cricket. In fact we will send her one because she hates cricket…
First is was Darryl Tuffey and now it is Kyle Mills. Our correspondent asks: “Is this really Scottish tennis star Andy Murray or has Kyle Mills been moonlighting at the Heineken Open in order to avoid his obvious call-up to the beige lycra?” Fair call. One of these is Mills and one is Murray - you choose.
It’s hard to disagree with these comments from David in Sydney but nothing surprises us anymore! Why can’t NZ Cricket & the Aussies concentrate on making their own colours cool rather than being obsessed about being associated with our ‘by the fans, for the fans’ image?
As a Kiwi currently living in Australia, I have become accustomed to Aussies claiming everything New Zealand (Split ENZ, Crowded House, Pavlova…etc, they can have Russell Crowe). When watching the recent 20/20 game between AUS and SAF, I saw the “Boon Army”.
Not only did they copy the idea of celebrating the wonderful era that was the 1980’s, they also borrowed the beige colour for their uniforms. I thought the canary yellow the Aussie wore back in the day would have been more fitting.
I suggest sending the lawyers in.
We have a backyard cricket comp coming up. This will be tailor-made for chaps like this…
From Ben in Chch:
Thought it was about time that me and my BYC playing mates dropped you a line about our website www.kingswoodseries.5u.com . We better let you know 3 out of the 4 of us that play in our series are proud owners of beige rugs and mine even happens to be the cotton number from the earlier BB days….hope that the possession of these help our cause….
Loved these comments in the Sydney Morning Herald from Woz Livingstone from Aussie supporters’ group, The Fanatics. He reckons Poms who want tickets to the Ashes matches in Aussie in December/January should have to pass a trivia test on Aussie cricket to prove they are Australian enough to be at the games. For a pic of Woz, click here (beware though, it’s a stomach churner!)
As per usual the Fun Police just cannot cope with people having a laugh at the cricket - we loved the Hawkes Bay Today story about the chicks chipping away at each other at the cricket earning the ire of the authorities. We’re encouraging all people to do a protest pash if they see themselves on TV at all during the upcoming NZ v West Indies cricket series. We will be giving out spot prizes to those involved too: ideas include Showgirls vouchers, cold hard cash, lip balm and Make Your Own Movie kits…
Update: The Herald is all over this. We have today sent some Beige Brigade kit to the 2 fine upstanding ladies involved - bless ‘em!
They do things a bit differently in India - especially when it comes to cricket. The new Cricinfo magazine has an article in it talking about a TV programme over there called Match Ke Mujrim [”Culprits of the Match”] which sees Indian cricketers nominated and subjected to trial by public to determine who is culpable for the side’s latest loss! They get former cricketers in to host it and the punters get to vote to let their feelings known. It is the Jerry Springer of cricket, just bizarre…
Quite like this initiative by Cricket Australia. Look forward to some of the more offensive nicknames being ‘amended’ for public consumption…
Victoria: Max (Michael Klinger), Stickers (Shane Harwood), Skinny (Adam Crosthwaite).
NSW: Pro (Phil Jaques); Moey (Moises Henriques), Eagle (Doug Bollinger).
Queensland: Mahbo (Jimmy Maher), Catfish (James Hopes), Dagger (Ryan Broad).
Western Australia: Rock (Luke Ronchi), Honky (Brett Dorey), Buck (Chris Rogers).
Tasmania: Hector (George Bailey), Cheese (Xavier Doherty), Cowboy (Michael Dighton).
South Australia: Diz (Jason Gillespie), Boof (Darren Lehmann), Herb (Matthew Elliott).
Words of reason in the Herald from wonderful Warren Lees about the ridiculous approach of security at recent cricket matches. It’s a joke.
