< 1 minute readKieron Pollard made a golden duck today as West Indies were rolled for 61 by Bangladesh. Pollard’s failure isn’t all that surprising, because his record is actually pretty piss-poor. Kieron Pollard’s record Pollard is best-known for his clumping hitting, yet he averages 21.67 in one-day internationals and 12.66 in Twenty20
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Virat Kohli should be in India’s Test team
< 1 minute readRob Key says that even Suresh Raina must wonder how he gets picked ahead of Virat Kohli. It’s not just because we mindlessly go along with everything Rob says like a mindless yes-man that we agree with him on this occasion. There’s been a change in Kohli. He’s always looked
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< 1 minute readUmesh Yadav just bowled a 90mph delivery. By this time next year, he should have reined that in and India can expect to have another solid medium-pacer available to them. Yadav has much to learn. If he thinks he should be striving for the kind of delivery that he bowled
Continue readingDon’t expect much from England
< 1 minute readHow’s that for a rallying cry? England are playing their least-favoured format in their least-favoured conditions. This series against India will show them at their very worst and as such, it will tell us a hell of a lot. England’s worst is not yet ‘middling’. They should aspire to middling
Continue readingEngland are playing India – again
< 1 minute readIt’s just a one-day series, but as it happens England’s home win and India’s World Cup win have made this quite an appealing prospect. Plus it’s only five matches, not seven matches like it will be next winter. What’s that, you say? Seven one-day matches next winter? You don’t mean
Continue readingBangladesh v West Indies – no-one will get credit for a win
< 1 minute readWhen a losing team plays another losing team, one of them has to lose. No-one wins. This is good though. It’s like life. Life is an ongoing damage limitation exercise that is ultimately doomed to failure. You try your best, you slave away, you constantly improve yourself and the best
Continue readingEngland v India, Edgbaston Test match report
2 minute readGed writes: We were all set for our (almost) annual visit to Edgbaston for the first two days of the Test. Charlie “The Gent” Malloy had arranged everything. Front row seats in the Raglan Stand, digs at Harborne Hall, nets the night before the start of the Test at Harborne
Continue readingAsif and Butt’s agent says a lot of stuff
< 1 minute readThose following the court case involving Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif will have seen a lot of eye-catching headlines. The agent at the centre of all this is Mazhar Majeed. He is, frankly, a bit of a knobhead. The thing is, most of the headlines derive from things Majeed said
Continue readingLasith Malinga leads the bowlers
< 1 minute readIt’s nice to see bowlers being decisive in a Twenty20 match. Far too often they might as well just glue different mugshots onto a bowling machine and use that instead. In the Champions League final, Mumbai successfully defended 139. For a large proportion of the match, the commentators were talking
Continue readingIs Sachin Tendulkar preventing India from having fast bowlers?
< 1 minute readThis week, Zaheer Khan said: “Indian bodies are not designed to bowl fast.” Assuming that Zaheer has chosen his words carefully, this seems to indicate that he believes that humans are ‘designed’. If they are designed by God, and Sachin is God, then we can conclude that the Mumbai batsman’s
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