It's not how you drive, it's how you arrive

Just checking up on the popularity poll on SuperSport, which I do believe Albie has no chance of winning whatsoever (nor does Duminy, so there goes my interest in that), I noticed an article about ROFL. It's a good day for him on this blog.

The article mostly has stuff I already know, but at the end, there's a quote from the presentation ceremony after the T20 against Australia which ROFL won MoM for. I cannot believe I missed this when it was shown. I must have been asleep. But it's pretty damn funny. ROFL talks about his crazy as fuck batting style:

"It's not how you drive, it's how you arrive."

Marvellous, says Richie.

Arriving in style.

A Trip Down Memory Lane at WWOS

Oh, will you just look at that? The height of technological advancements, so very brilliant. The infamous tune, and an overlay of cricket footage accompanying a photo still of a storm.

In the words of Richie Benaud, marvellous.

How We Won The Ashes

I've been busy looking for that rather irritating Weetbix ad in which Michael Slater provides commentary on a woman buying Weetbix in a supermarket before Tony Greig tucks into a bowl of Weetbix like the annoying man he is. Watching that makes me miss the WB ads of old.

I couldn't find the great ad of the Aussie cricketers sitting at a table going through how many Weetbix they each do (an ad from a few years ago, I think - one of the cricketers must have said he eats 10 Weetbix), but I did find this, and that is when I realised what made us win the Ashes:



It turns out the ugly brown-haired kid on the right of the frame at the start of that ad is supposed to be Michael Hussey.

But it's pretty obvious that if you cut our cricketers off from their ready supply of Weetbix, they will inevitably lose the Ashes.

Another ad for the 2007 Ashes tells us it's Richie Benaud who makes us win:



If that's how they marketed the Ashes back then, what on earth will they do without so many of our "Extraordinary XI"?

I still maintain it's the Weetbix that does it.