Stylish Triple Centuries Add Some Spice To Season
Sun Herald
Sunday November 16, 2003
LIKE funky corduroy flares and mullet hairdos, the triple century is back in style. Martin Love 's 300 not out for Queensland against Victoria made him the fourth Aussie to crack 300 in the past three months the fifth if you include Murray Goodwin 's 335 not out for Sussex against Leicestershire. The others were Matthew Hayden (380, Australia v Zimbabwe), Brad Hodge (302 not out, Leicestershire v Nottinghamshire), and Mike Hussey (331 not out, Northamptonshire v Somerset). Hussey had scored two more triples in the previous two seasons. Before that you have to go back to Mark Taylor 's 334 not out against Pakistan in 1998. Love's effort was the first domestic triple ton since Dean Jones 's 324 not out for Victoria v South Australia in 1995.
Harry thinks big
TIGERS v Bulldogs at Telstra Stadium. Sounds like footy, but it's not. One of Sydney cricket's forward thinkers, Harry Harinath, has organised for the UTS-Balmain Tigers to play the Bankstown Bulldogs at Telstra in a one-day grade match on January 31. NSW play a four-dayer starting the next day, but Tigers president Harinath is hoping the state players will be available, including the Waugh brothers.
Up with Joneses
DEAN Jones and his wife Jane have been walking 100 kilometres a week in training for their month-long Sydney to Melbourne walk for charity, beginning on November 24. Deano rolled out a list of his walking partners, which includes Ian Healy , David Boon , Mark Taylor , Kerry O'Keefe , several AFL players, Kostya Tszyu and Tara Moss . Even John Howard's doing a stint. Deano says the PM is probably the fittest of the lot.
Seat in the 'burbs
DID you know that 700 of the 1300 seats being replaced in the Members' Stand at the SCG are to be installed at Eastern Suburbs' home ground, Waverley Oval? Well, you do now.
Flower power
SOUTH Australia batsman Andy Flower will keep half the $50,000 he won for hitting the sponsor's sign last Sunday. The rest goes towards the Redbacks' end-of-season trip. Greg Blewett said he felt for Flower because Flower's wife Becky had spent most of the money before it arrived. ``I'm not sure how much she knows about cricket but I think she's expecting him to hit the sign another couple of times this season," Blewett said.
STATS ENTERTAINMENT
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
RICKY Ponting is the leading run scorer in international one-day cricket this year with 1118 runs from 30 innings. Adam Gilchrist is second with 1091 in 29 innings. Australians fill six of the top 12 positions.•
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
``This cap was given to a schoolboy family friend of the Bradmans . . . who until recently didn't realise the cap he used to wear while playing backyard cricket was such a significant part of Australian cricket history."
SA State Library on the return of The Don's first Test cap.
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