John Knox

@PaulAmy375 @codesportsau I will never forget his three hundreds in a row for MUCC in the 95/96 premiership year. I remember the song the entire club sang one night “hey Ricci, you’re so fine”. Class player.

Had a blast catching up with Brendan Ricci. He was the ‘old bloke’ who debuted for Victoria at 30. Decades later, he's still scoring hundreds in Melbourne’s outer east. Remarkable cricketer. A feature for @codesportsau codesports.com.au/cricket/local-…

@PaulAmy375 @subbies And a Ryder medallist.

And here's a list of the youngest players to have appeared in @subbies ... includes a Brownlow Medal champion, league footballers and first-class cricketers.

@DanielCherny My two daughters, 16 and 13, are equally shocked. The Konstas effect extends to all ages.

My 89-year-old grandmother who couldn’t draw you a cricket pitch and has never willingly watched a game of cricket in her life just asked me completely earnestly when I saw her for the first time since returning from Sri Lanka: “Why did they send Sam back?” The Konstas effect.

@DanielCherny Why did you take 24 hours to post the message given it happened yesterday?

7:25am on December 27 and a group of Richmond players including Toby Nankervis and Nathan Broad are training at Punt Road.

@PaulAmy375 MUCC 2nd XI had to forfeit v Essendon in 1996/7. @MelbUniCC 2nd XI captain Charlie Sutherland can explain the reason…

Have never seen this before at Vic District/Premier level. There will be a forfeit tomorrow, with Geelong, despite a big ring-around, unable to secure a ground for the fourths match against Richmond.

@RicFinlay Although I am not sure the Indian professional cricketer’s life expectancy is anywhere close to the overall Indian average….

@Knoxy73 I think you may be right when it comes to England - AI tells me life expectancy in England in 1965 (when they toured here) was 71.62 years, but only 70.85 in Aus. But in India, who toured the following year, it was only 45.3.

% of first-class cricketers playing in the given year, alive today (England, Australia): 1960 33.9, 43.4 1961 38.4, 47.8 1962 42.7, 47.1 1963 46.4, 46.4 1964 49.2, 54.2 1965 53.1, 63.8 1966 57.1, 58.0 1967 58.3, 61.3 1968 62.3, 65.9 1969 66.3, 70.7 1970 69.8, 72.6

@RicFinlay Presumably it has more to do with the far higher age of English first class cricketers (Eg Darren Stevens, Eddie Hemmings, Graeme Gooch, Jimmy Anderson etc) than longer life expectancy (Aus 83 v UK 82)?

Australian stats, with its lower number of players, must more susceptible to the incursion of touring teams from countries with lower life expectancies, which may explain some of the dips.

@RicFinlay Although Hussey was the master at farming the strike with the tail.

@Knoxy73 I think it is interesting to see how it varies between individual batters. I posted it to attract comment and theories, not to attract derision.

Just to see what it would throw up, here are Balls Faced/Minute Batted for Aussies with 3000 Test runs in the last 20 years: 0.720 MHussey 0.717 Watto 0.712 MClarke 0.702 BHaddin 0.696 Marnus 0.695 RPonting Good at manipulating the strike, or poor at turning over the strike?

@RicFinlay I wonder whether it is more an indication of the over rate of the opposition than anything else. More time facing spin attacks obviously helps. Hard to work out whether the batter has much to do with it.

Retweeting this post I sent in 2016. How good would an SCG Test look under lights in early January?

Cricket NSW Chair John Knox has paid tribute to departing director Neil Maxwell after Maxwell indicated he would step down from his position on the CNSW board at the end of the month 🤝 Read the full announcement 👇

30 years ago today. I sent this seven years ago.

@jimmaxcricket Jim it isn’t good enough and as President of Easts you should expect better. I won’t use as an excuse that 7 of the 11 top test players in the country are from NSW or that 23 of the 66 players playing in the last round of the Shield are from NSW. We are all over it and focused

Blame? Lack of hunger for the well paid players? Leadership? Coaching? Selection? Is CricketNSW delivering a robust, accountable management structure ? Some answers please…..

@frasermain @MelbUniCC Frase - it is the first red ball game for three years!! You and I wouldn’t have a chance to show how good we were at leaving balls outside off stump.

@MelbUniCC I am shocked that this is the first red ball game of the season. Let’s hope this is rectified for next season and beyond.

🎖️1st XI Debut 🎖️ Congratulations to James Browning (#981) and Yuvraj Singh (#982) who will both make their 1st XI debut’s this weekend against Kingstown Hawthorn! This match is also our first red ball match since the 2019/20 season!

@MelbUniCC Impossible to produce test cricketers if you aren’t playing red ball cricket.

NSW Metropolitan have claimed the 2022-23 U16 Female National Championships in Canberra🏆 • Player of the Final - Olivia Callaghan • Leading Wicket Taker - Juliette Morton • Team of the Tournament - Callee Black, Olivia Callaghan, Juliette Morton, Emily Powell & Hayley Zauch

@GolfAust ceo and former @CricketAus ceo, James Sutherland, is just as comfortable on a golf course as a cricket ground. Six birdies in his 71 at Royal Melb west yesterday.