When journalists from Fleet Street and Australia wrote about the recent Ashes series, they were talking about a clean sweep of victories that left the opponent scoreless. This was a whitewash? I thought this use of the word was just not cricket.
Otherwise, journalists might find themselves in all kinds of trouble if and when an Australian side defeats the West Indies, Pakistan or Sri Lanka in a series clean sweep.
Whitewash might be a most unfortunate term. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account.
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Blog at WordPress. Word Worry Will While we can no more halt language changes than turn back the sea with shouting, we can at least share some uses and abuses. By Bill Collopy on January 23, It comes from baseball. India and Pakistan look pedestrian and listless in comparison. The clamour to blood youngsters grows louder. I, for one, take the contrarian view.
They weathered the storm without much damage to their career prospects. Case in point, Suresh Raina. Abhinav Mukund performed creditably in the Windies and England. Marvan Atapattu scored five ducks and one in his first six Test innings. Surely, Mukund has done better. Virender Sehwag and Ishant Sharma return home. Andrew Strauss promised to keep the heat on in the ODIs. We are very keen to finish the summer again being unbeaten. Note: Sachin Tendulkar misses his th international hundred, out for 91 in the second innings.
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