"This is not a tennis ball. These things will crack skulls."

I am amused. Last I heard sometime in 07/08, there was going to be a Bollywood movie released with some Aussie cricketers playing a cameo role in it, namely Brett Lee.

But I had no idea the movie had been released when I stumbled across this trailer for the movie. It's so great I have no words for it:



That's alright but even better than it is this excerpt (?) from the movie. I don't really know where it fits in, but it appears to be a song from the movie in which the captains of pretty much every cricketing nation of the world talk about just how great the main character of the film (a young Indian cricketer) is and how they just can't find a way to break his defences. Tony Greig also gets a few words in:



It's just really bloody hilarious.

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.