by Andrew Gigacz
The 100th Test at the SCG is about to get underway. Will we see Tendulkar get his 100th 100 in Sydney’s 100th Test?
And while on the topic of Tendulkar, his name was one of many that has appeared on Twitter over the past 48 hours. Not in relation to his potential hundredth hundred, but because someone came up with the bright idea of calling for the names of potential cricket movies. Under the “hashtag” (Twitter-speak) #CricketMovies, the topic flourished. Suggestions came from everywhere and of course I couldn’t resist and I weighed in with such titles as Tendulkar is the Night, The Silence of the Allan Lambs and The Cars That Ate Ryan Harris. You get the idea. I also threw in Being Len Durtanovich but I’m not sure how many would have got that reference!
Anyway, here are some more of mine and also some of the ones that amused me that came in from all points from people everywhere including the Almanac’s own David Downer and Rick Kane and a plethora from Tony Taylor from After Grog Blog fame:
I Know What You Averaged Last Summer
In the Name of Khawaja
McCosker and Lucinda
What’s Up, Tiger Lillee?
Raiders of the Lost Arc Between Mid-Off and Mid-On
Saving Private Ryan Harris
Throw Mohammad Amir From The Train
Ian Bishop’s Wife
Herbie Goes to Monty Panesar
Harsha Bogle Nights
Eating Rahul Dravid
We Need to Talk About Kevin Mitchell
Ferris Bueller’s Mid Off
The Magnificent Seven for 23
The Cook the Thief his Wife and her Wicketkeeper
Alvin Kallicharran & The Chipmunks
Kill Bill Lawry
And so it goes. So my suggestion is for those that can, to sit back, relax and take in the Sydney Test. And while you’re doing that, give us some thoughts on the game and through in the name of a Cricket Movie if you can!
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A Fistful of IPL Dollars.
The Good, The Bad and The Googly.
Play Mushtaq for Me.
Thuderbolts and Lightfootwork.
Every Which Way but Loose Down the Leg Side.
J. Bruce Edgar
What is Phil Hughes doing opening the batting for India?
He and Gambhir can be made honorary Almanickers.
As for movies, I have been a big fan of the Ricky series – where the kid from the wrong side of the tracks (Mowbray) overcomes his personal demons to become the world champ. But I must admit that by Rocky VII he is starting to lose the plot.
Ponting puts down a catch – hope Sehwag doesn’t go on to make 240!
Movie title – Gone With the Windies
GalleipoLee #cricketmovies #doublewhammy
I’m with you Dips – can’t beat the classics. I’m currently enjoying James Pattinson’s adaptation of EM Forster’s “Passage Through India”.
Now that I have Foxtel, the choice is quite wide. I enjoyed the recent live performance from South Africa of A Night To Philander.
If you’re anywhere within a Chris Gayle six of Fitzroy, feel free to join me and MOC at Rose Hotel for today’s second session.
With respect to the young tear away fast bowler “The Way We Were”.
No Country For Tony Greig.
Happy New Year Knackers :)
The Big Pill
Absence of Kallis
On Golden Pontings
One Threw Over the Keeper’s End
The Life of Brian Lara
Life of Brian Lara did come up on twitter. And my variations of the other two were “On Golden Duck” and “One Flew Over the Golden Duck’s Nest”.
The Prabhakars That Ate Paris
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Rowe
XanaDujon
The Story of O’Reilly
Deep Point
Googly Nights
David Emmanuel
The Adventures of Neil McKenzie
Alvin Kallicharran Rides Again
or Garth
A friend of my son’s had a cricket bat which was marketed as The Beast. People (with a film appreciation as warped as mine) will know that there is actually a film by that name and it would have slotted nicely into the theme of my previous list.
Bridge Over the River Khawaja
The Bare Pitch Project
The Charge of the Light Meter Brigade
New theme:
Blood SImple Chance
No County Cricket For Old Men
True Bounce
and my favourite
The Big Lebashski
Love that last one, Andrew.
The Last Pitch Was Slow
Ben Hurfenhaus
Exodus
B*A*S*H
Two for Travis Birt:
The Travis Birt Locker
Travis Birty Dancing
Free Peter Willey
Citizen Paine
All Quiet at the Nursery Road End
Diving, missed Dhoni
Bob Holland Drive
This could be extended to lines out of movies – ie Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry),
“Has he hit 4 runs or has he hit five? In all this excitment I’ve kind a lost count.”
‘The Wicket Man’ (very scary)
Dips,
‘Go ahead Pup, make my day’
Crossing over to songs.
Ishant Sharma’s goin to get ya, hit you right on the head…
Stop that, Phantom! I was saving songs for the Perth Test. (I do remember Plastic Bertrand singing Safraz Pour Moi all those years ago.)
JTH, one of the tweets was “Nightmare at the Vulture Street End”.
* The Rick Darling Buds of Tim May
* The Gatting of Wisdom
In Bay 13.
‘The Sound of Boozing’
Big Bash Wednesday ( A surf/cricket movie, but not really much to do with surfing or cricket)
Apocalypso Cricket Now (A remake of Heart of Darkness filmed in the West indies)
Matthew Hayden’s Day Off (A fishing/ cooking movie with an occasional song thrown in)
Bradley Haddin’s Mid Off (A straight (drive) to DVD version of FBDO)
Mission Imposiddle (Groan)
Ton Ton (A freelance reporter investigates a betting plunge on simultaneous centuries scored on the sub-continent)
Spinal Bat (A mockumenatry about a team that bats all the way to 11)
Martin Love Actually
Ponting’s Eleven ( A group of conmen impersonate a cricket team)
King Mickey Arthur
A Boon With a View
MitchJohnson’s Guide to the Galaxy
An Inconvenient Youth (a story about Pat Cummins battle with injury)
Get Clarke (A movie about an inept captain impersonating a spy)
School of Block
Scarface (starring Brendan McCullum)
V For Veletta
Batman
Sorry, I had some time to kill…
An idle mind is the devil’s playground Gigs.
“Flipper”
‘Warne Horse’
All the best ones are gone. A film suggested by my specialist fielding position.
The Third Man
also
The trouble with Harbijhan
Robbery Underarm (for Greg and Trevor Chappell)
Dirty Ponting
Slog Boy, and Slog Boy 2:
#CricketMovies:
To Kill A Mocking Dickie Bird
West Indies Side Story
Mister (Andy) Roberts
Bradman To The Future
12 Angry Men
Raging Bulls
The Fiery Fred Trueman Show
The English tabloid headline writers would be good at this. I think it was they who coined “Dumb Slog Millionaire” in honor of Kevin Pietersen.
What about some 007 cricket movies?
(in chronological order)
Dr. No Ball
From Worcestor with love
Triggerfinger
Underarmball
You can only challenge twice
On Hansie Cronje’s secret service
Diamond ducks are forever
Leave then let fly
The man with the 3-pound bat
The slip who grassed me
Strokemaker
For four byes only
Platapussy
A chance to a spill
The MCG day-nights
Licence to tonk
Goldenduck
Sehwag never blocks
The World XI is not enough
Declare another day
Cathedral End royale
Quartet of menace
Wicket fall
Geez Smoke, you’ve been putting some thought into this. :)
HE’S OUT !!!!!!!
The Bradman of Alcatraz
Absence of Kallis