Garfield Robinson
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Has a few opinions, mostly on cricket
The degree of difficulty in cricket
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The degree of difficulty in cricket
By: Garfield Robinson
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Why shouldn't the degree of difficulty be considered when assessing performances in cricket? Is it possible?:
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The degree of difficulty in cricket
By: Garfield Robinson
https://www.cricketfj.com/p/the-degree-of-difficulty-in-cricket
16 days ago
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Very happy to see Arsenal win Premier League. Champion's League next.
20 days ago
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Why Nicholas Pooranâs retirement should concern us
By: Garfield Robinson
https://www.cricketfj.com/p/why-nicholas-poorans-retirement-should
about 1 month ago
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Why Nicholas Pooranâs retirement should concern us
By: Garfield Robinson
https://www.cricketfj.com/p/why-nicholas-poorans-retirement-should
about 1 month ago
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The Outswinger: Cricketâs most potent weapon
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The Outswinger: Cricketâs most potent weapon
By: Garfield Robinson
https://open.substack.com/pub/cricketfj/p/the-outswinger-crickets-most-potent?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
about 2 months ago
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The Outswinger: Cricketâs most potent weapon
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The Outswinger: Cricketâs most potent weapon
By: Garfield Robinson
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2 months ago
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The Outswinger: Cricketâs most potent weapon
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The Outswinger: Cricketâs most potent weapon
By: Garfield Robinson
https://open.substack.com/pub/cricketfj/p/the-outswinger-crickets-most-potent?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
2 months ago
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Some good stuff in The Nightwatchman as always.
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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Carl Hooper: Artist and underachiever - Jamaica Observer
Carl Hooper: Artist and underachiever
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/11/07/carl-hooper-artist-underachiever/
7 months ago
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There is still hope for Shai in Tests - Jamaica Observer
There is still hope for Shai in Tests
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/10/21/still-hope-shai-tests/
8 months ago
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West Indies Are Coming To India⊠But Is There Even A Contest? | West Indies tour of India, 2025
An injury-hit, underpowered West Indies side heads to India with virtually no chance of competing, let alone winning
https://www.cricket.com/news/west-indies-are-coming-to-india-but-is-there-even-a-contest-9302025-1759235302129
8 months ago
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West Indies Are Coming To India⊠But Is There Even A Contest? | West Indies tour of India, 2025
An injury-hit, underpowered West Indies side heads to India with virtually no chance of competing, let alone winning
https://www.cricket.com/news/west-indies-are-coming-to-india-but-is-there-even-a-contest-9302025-1759235302129
8 months ago
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Not Adelaide, Not Gabba: Why Eden Gardens 2017 Was Pujaraâs Greatest Innings
The forgotten masterpiece at the Eden defined the kind of player Pujara was
https://www.cricket.com/news/not-adelaide-not-gabba-why-eden-gardens-2017-was-pujaras-greatest-innings-8302025-1756548771905
9 months ago
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Rishabh, The Great | India tour of England, 2025
Pant is an adventurer posing as a wicketkeeper-batter.
https://www.cricket.com/news/rishabh-the-great-812025-1754056470406
10 months ago
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#ENGvAUS
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Rishabh, The Great | India tour of England, 2025
Pant is an adventurer posing as a wicketkeeper-batter.
https://www.cricket.com/news/rishabh-the-great-812025-1754056470406
10 months ago
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#Cricket
#WIvsAUS
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Is Dr Shallow too thin-skinned? - Jamaica Observer
Is Dr Shallow too thin-skinned?
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/07/25/dr-shallow-thin-skinned/
11 months ago
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Is Dr Shallow too thin-skinned? - Jamaica Observer
Is Dr Shallow too thin-skinned?
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/07/25/dr-shallow-thin-skinned/
11 months ago
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West Indies batting in deep trouble - Jamaica Observer
West Indies batting in deep trouble
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/07/18/west-indies-batting-deep-trouble/
11 months ago
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You should try and get a copy of this quarter's The Nightwatchman. Some great stories are in there:
www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/the-nigh...
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The Nightwatchman single issue - print (Issue 50) - The Nightwatchman
Order Issue 50, June 2025 for ÂŁ12 (excluding shipping) and get a free e-book copy.
https://www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/the-nightwatchman-single-issue-print-issue-50
about 1 year ago
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The Nightwatchman
about 1 year ago
The landmark 50th issue of The Nightwatchman is out now *raises bat* Packed full of great writing from
@jonathanliew.bsky.social
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@camsell59.bsky.social
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@garfieldr.bsky.social
and more Print:
www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/the-nigh...
Digital:
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You should try and get a copy of this quarter's The Nightwatchman. Some great stories are in there:
www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/the-nigh...
#cricket
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The Nightwatchman single issue - print (Issue 50) - The Nightwatchman
Order Issue 50, June 2025 for ÂŁ12 (excluding shipping) and get a free e-book copy.
https://www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/the-nightwatchman-single-issue-print-issue-50
about 1 year ago
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How the West Indies got their bowling tactics wrong - Jamaica Observer
How the West Indies got their bowling tactics wrong
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/06/05/west-indies-got-bowling-tactics-wrong/
about 1 year ago
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Why Garfield Sobers was so special - Jamaica Observer
Why Garfield Sobers was so special
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/05/02/garfield-sobers-special/
about 1 year ago
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Why Garfield Sobers was so special - Jamaica Observer
Why Garfield Sobers was so special
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/05/02/garfield-sobers-special/
about 1 year ago
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Greatness rests in the team, not the captain - Jamaica Observer
Greatness rests in the team, not the captain
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/04/23/greatness-rests-team-not-captain/
about 1 year ago
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Greatness rests in the team, not the captain - Jamaica Observer
Greatness rests in the team, not the captain
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/04/23/greatness-rests-team-not-captain/
about 1 year ago
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When Holding whispered death at The Oval - Jamaica Observer
When Holding whispered death at The Oval
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/03/20/holding-whispered-death-oval/
about 1 year ago
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When Holding whispered death at The Oval - Jamaica Observer
When Holding whispered death at The Oval
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2025/03/20/holding-whispered-death-oval/
about 1 year ago
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It's time for Brandon King to make his West Indies test debut
YouTube video by Caribbean Cricket Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsZQ5oH2nmc
over 1 year ago
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The West Indies should pick Brandon King for tests:
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A Case For Brandon King In Tests
When will Brandon King get his chance?
https://caribbeancricket.substack.com/p/a-case-for-brandon-king-in-tests
over 1 year ago
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When an angry Ambrose destroyed England - Jamaica Observer
When an angry Ambrose destroyed England
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/16/angry-ambrose-destroyed-england/
over 1 year ago
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The low years of Lara - Jamaica Observer
Brian Lara is easily one of the best batters the game has seen. Yet there was a period, lasting for over three years, that he was not the avaricious run-maker we had got used to, averaging 53.17 i...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2022/05/01/the-low-years-of-lara/#google_vignette
over 1 year ago
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When the new ball reverses
Is it reverse swing or contrast swing? There is a difference between the two, and a better understanding of it would enhance the effectiveness of the skill
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/rabi-mehta-and-garfield-robinson-understanding-the-difference-between-reverse-and-contrast-swing-1079913
over 1 year ago
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When Jeff Thomson drove fear into West Indies - Jamaica Observer
Australia toured the West Indies in 1977-1978 with a team depleted by the implications of the Packer affair, whereby businessman Kerry Packer established a new franchise, World Series Cricket, to ...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2023/09/26/when-jeff-thomson-drove-fear-into-west-indies-20231018-2308-146284/
over 1 year ago
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Jofra archer and the difficulties of spotting talent - Jamaica Observer
Jofra archer and the difficulties of spotting talent
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/10/07/jofra-archer-difficulties-spotting-talent/
over 1 year ago
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over 1 year ago
Enjoyed chatting to a still shocked Nathan McAndrew, who recounted the remarkable match between SA-WA at the WACA. It was the shortest outright result in Sheffield Shield history in a match lasting less than 5 sessions
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763 balls, 66 all out, 7 for 11: McAndrew recounts wild WACA
Even the morning after South Australia's victory, some of those who took part were still making sense of it
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/sheffield-shield-2024-25-763-balls-34-wickets-66-all-out-nathan-mcandrew-recounts-wild-waca-1472748
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When Jerome Taylor wrecked England - Jamaica Observer
At his best, West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor was a seriously devastating fast bowler, capable of raining down sudden and complete destruction on the oppositionâs batting. He developed co...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2022/06/13/when-jerome-taylor-wrecked-england/
over 1 year ago
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Annie Chave
over 1 year ago
Cricket is a delightful sport. Iâve been captivated by it all my life. This article by Liew kinda puts into words how I feel about what is happening right now. In other words I have no idea⊠but it sure as hell doesnât feel like cricket đ
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
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Cricketâs going bananas: nothing is real at Hundred auction but it still costs ÂŁ145m | Jonathan Liew
Forget runs, wickets and boundaries. Brazen billionaires just invested in the sportâs most bizarre art form: the idea of a team
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/feb/04/hundred-auction-london-spirit-cricket-going-bananas
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The West Indian rebel tours to South Africa â CricketMash
During the apartheid-linked isolation years of South Africa, the countryâs cricket authorities ensured that cricket carried on in the troubled land by enticing a number of ârebelâ teams to visit thei...
https://cricmash.com/special-tours/the-west-indian-rebel-tours-to-south-africa
over 1 year ago
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The mystery of the knuckleball
The baseball pitch that could free cricket's bowlers from the shackles that tie them down
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/rabi-mehta-and-garfield-robinson-transferring-baseball-s-knuckleball-to-cricket-1087038
over 1 year ago
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Memories of Malcolm Marshall - Jamaica Observer
Beginning in the 1970s and continuing throughout the 1980s there emerged in the Caribbean a long line of fast bowlers fit to be numbered among the very best the game has seen. Andy Roberts, ...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2023/04/17/memories-of-malcolm-marshall/
over 1 year ago
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The man who tamed the West Indiesâ great four-pronged pace attack - Jamaica Observer
In 1983 the West Indies pace quartet was at its pinnacle. Few hoped to survive against them, and fewer still had the audacity to confront them head-on and fight fire with fire. The thought ...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2022/04/06/the-man-who-tamed-the-west-indies-great-four-pronged-pace-attack/#google_vignette
over 1 year ago
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Facing the fire of Patrick Patterson - Jamaica Observer
Former West Indies pacer Patrick Patterson has had some difficulties since his untimely exit from cricket. According to reports, he is now something of a recluse, dealing with his fair share of i...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2022/01/05/facing-the-fire-of-patrick-patterson/
over 1 year ago
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The startling rise Of Curtly Ambrose - Jamaica Observer
Things catch us unawares sometimes, with no hint or warning as to whatâs coming. Horse racing fans, for instance, and even many who are not, were recently stunned by Rich Strike striding out of no...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2022/05/29/the-startling-rise-of-curtly-ambrose/
over 1 year ago
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The magic of Sabina Park and Laraâs greatest innings - Jamaica Observer
AS a Jamaican and a lover of the great game, Sabina Park is one of my favourite places. The island's lone Test-match venue is deeply immersed in the game's history. Most famously, pe...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2021/10/17/the-magic-of-sabina-park-and-laras-greatest-innings/#google_vignette
over 1 year ago
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Sylvester Clarke: Cricketâs most intimidating fast bowler - Jamaica Observer
"Beefie, mahn ⊠Beefie, mahn. What have you done to me ⊠Beefie, mahn?" Beefie was England all-rounder Ian Botham and the man posing the question was the burly, Barbadian speedster S...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2023/06/05/sylvester-clarke-crickets-most-intimidating-fast-bowler/
over 1 year ago
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A primal twist to home advantage
There's more to home advantage than just familiar playing conditions
https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/99153/theres-more-to-home-advantage-than-just-familiar-playing-conditions
over 1 year ago
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Cricketâs meanest fast bowler - Jamaica Observer
He wasn't that tall, but his arms were long. Fast bowler wouldn't be the first thing that popped in your mind upon seeing him, but he was fast. Faster than Wes Hall, with whom he sha...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2021/12/19/crickets-meanest-fast-bowler/
over 1 year ago
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A West Indies XI to take on the rest of the world - Jamaica Observer
Long before Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president of the United States, he said these words in an address to the Young Menâs Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois: âAll the armies of Europe, Asi...
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2022/05/16/a-west-indies-xi-to-take-on-the-rest-of-the-world/
over 1 year ago
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