The evil empire
Iain O’Brien’s blog has been a crash hit, generating praise and controversy all to quickly in its brief life. It is not surprising perhaps that it has been syndicated by Cricinfo.
Just a day after urging us all to join O’Brien’s Facebook fanclub, JRod is disappointed that he has been absorbed by the evil Cricinfo empire.
One good thing about the Cricinfo version is that it includes photos, including this one of Iain in his evil empire uniform:

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December 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Ha! i only saw the cricket pic and said to myself “he looks like a Stormtrooper”
December 15th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Ha! i only saw the cricket pic and said to myself “he looks like a Stormtrooper”
It’s the segmented body armour. And the fact that O’Brien is as effective with that bat he’s waving as a stormtrooper is with a blaster.
December 16th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Top post, uncanny how good the resemblance is…