Posted on 17 February, 2008 by Kristian
Fox Sports reports that the former mark of 21.64 seconds, which stood for over 7 years under the name of the great Alex Popov, was “smashed” by 0.08 seconds by this rising star of Aussie swimming tonight at the NSW championships.
We’ve certainly proven that we can produce great middle and long distance swimmers such as [...]
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Posted on 17 February, 2008 by Kristian
I wanted to start by giving James Hopes a rap. He’s been pretty impressive today – a helpful little knock to help right what looked like a sinking ship in the afternoon, and a tight opening spell of 2/9 from 5 overs, which had a couple of great effort balls in the midst of it. [...]
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Posted on 17 February, 2008 by Kristian
A discussion on ABC Local Radio’s coverage of the one dayer at the Adelaide Oval (where Australia are struggling a bit at 5/102 after 28 overs) centered around a listener SMS asking who would be in the commentators’ hypothetical IPL franchise (which has to have 16 players, of whom eight can be international and four [...]
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Posted on 17 February, 2008 by Kristian
Biggest find of the century so far when it comes to fast bowlers with pace, bounce and control in my opinion. I predict (assuming he stays relatively injury free) that he’ll take at least 400 wickets in both Tests and ODIs. He’s had a stellar run here in Australia, and it’s amazing that he’s spearheading [...]
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Posted on 17 February, 2008 by Kristian
Bad grammar, I know, but the only title I could think of in the context of an exclusive Sydney Morning Herald poll. In a nutshell, the people of NSW (as represented by 550 polled residents) are losing trust in the State Government in the key areas of transport, hospitals and roads. This, of course, has [...]
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Posted on 17 February, 2008 by Kristian
(It’s the one up the top – the one on the bottom is the BF, which it has replaced. Both are the entry level XT variants.)
I’ll have a closer look at the photos of each model and post them with links to descriptions and my thoughts. On first inspection, In the meantime, check out what [...]
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