{"id":76,"date":"2007-06-08T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/?p=76"},"modified":"2011-01-24T18:25:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T18:25:23","slug":"why-i-love-cricket-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/2007\/06\/08\/sport\/why-i-love-cricket-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I love cricket commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a world of its very own, with a language that goes with it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harmison steams in, all arms and legs, like an Hindu deity running for a bus&#8230;and his first ball&#8230;is a ruddy wide&#8230;short and high over Ganga&#8217;s shoulder&#8230;and his second is a load of old rubbish and ends up slapping into the fine-leg fence. Hmmm&#8230;A couple outside off-stump&#8230;before another runs away for four down leg-side. Another leg-side wide and this is very ugly to watch&#8230;AND HE&#8217;S TRAPPED GANGA LBW!!! That&#8217;s Russian roulette for you, Daren, you&#8217;re bound to get your brains blown out at some stage. Smith gets an absolute jaffa second-up, the ball spitting off a length and just missing the top of off. That was one of the strangest overs I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to love it, or else \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a world of its very own, with a language that goes with it. Harmison steams in, all arms and legs, like an Hindu deity running for a bus&#8230;and his first ball&#8230;is a ruddy wide&#8230;short and high over Ganga&#8217;s shoulder&#8230;and his second is a load of old rubbish and ends up slapping into the fine-leg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[100,101,102],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-west-indies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learning-technologist.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}