Cricket action via twitter

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://​twit​ter​.com/​b​a​g​g​y​g​r​een

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?

4 responses to “Cricket action via twitter”:

    • By:admin
    • November 20th, 2007

    Can I just say,

    *I* on the other hand am a cricket tragic with­out peer.

    john

  1. Ohhh, you have peers, John — at least as far as cricket tragedy goes.

    And I thought all Rickys were Alpha males.

    • By:maxine
    • November 20th, 2007

    Most def­i­nitely only some of them Ricky, IMHO :)

  2. Heh, thanks for the post Maxine :)

    BTW, I’ve posted the source code at the bot­tom on the post — looks like one guy from India is already tak­ing a copy and going to do the same for his coun­tries team…

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