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OK, let me preface this by saying that my care factor for cricket per se is barely measurable on on the non quantum level. What does interest me though is people’s obsessive fascination with the game.

An obsessive fascination that leads to this fine bit of work by Myles Eftos, an unholy alliance between cricinfo and twitter. Follow

http://twitter.com/baggygreen

to get ball by ball commentary of any game involving Australia.

And go here to see how, Warney-like, Myles weaves his magic.

I guess this whole exercise goes some way toward answering a question I ponder every night while standing in line at the supermarket: why is Ricky Ponting on the cover of Alpha magazine?

Posted: on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

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