Australian rotation policy brouhaha

A placard at one of the recent VB series games read:

My girlfriend’s a fan of the rotation policy.

Came across this on Will’s excellent The Corridor of Uncertainty blog and found it so funny that it had to be added to my collection of qutoes.

Sabbatical

Sorry about the dearth of posts of late. I’ll soon post my thoughts about the recently-concluded Sri Lankan series and things to look forward to in the Pakistan series. I am going on vacation today for about three weeks, but will be able to make occasional posts. Check this space again soon. Meanwhile, I leave you with Greg Chappell’s response to friends suggesting that golf is the most mentally challenging game.

When you make your first bogey, go and sit in the dressing room for the rest of the day and see how hard it is.

Chappell, however, admits that “golf is the closest [to cricket] I have seen from a mental point of view.”

Welcome

Welcome to Line & Length: a discussion of cricket.

As you will soon come to learn, one of my hobbies is collecting quotations.  And I have a few about cricket that I’ll keep posting occasionally.  Allow me to open with one by Marcus Berkmann, reported during the 2003 World Cup:

Shane Warne was sent home after testing positive for a performance-enhancing mother.