< 1 minute readThe Shire Horse will be holed up inside the stables for the winter months and so we’re doing a series called King Cricket’s Kings of Cricket in its place. The first cricketer to be so honoured is Brian Lara. There’s also a bit of a preamble relating to the King
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Graham Gooch and some terrible puns
< 1 minute readIt’s our latest piece for Cricinfo. Here’s what the critics are saying about it: “Ultimate đ ROFL… Next in line is Misbah?” – The Sunday Times Now, if you’ll excuse us, we appear to have one million things to write today and very few hours in which to do it.
Continue readingEngland v Sri Lanka at Lordâs, day two match report
3 minute readGed writes âIâve been a complete idiot,â said Big Al DeLarge when he phoned me on the Monday before the Test match. âI wrote the date down in the diary but not on the wall chart. My assistant has booked a holiday and I simply cannot take that day off
Continue readingIf you could invite three cricketers to the pub on a Tuesday night…
< 1 minute readWho would they be? And before you ask, yes of course Fantasy Tuesday Night in the Pub is a thing. It’s like ‘who would you invite to your dream dinner party?’ – only why do we have to have a dinner party? Why can’t we just go to the pub
Continue readingPakistan’s 2015 World Cup strategy
< 1 minute readSame as ever really. Just sort of hope that everything magically works itself out. Shahid Afridi is a tremendously good one-day bowler, but you’d hope to see a stronger attack alongside him. Seven foot Mohammad Irfan is the novelty, while Junaid Khan is perhaps the class. But it’s the batting
Continue readingKP v ECB on Twitter – a medieval battle with an invisible audience
3 minute readOur latest Twitter round-up’s just appeared on Cricinfo. It was an unusually tough assignment. We’d sign into Twitter, get distracted by the latest developments arising from Kevin Pietersen’s autobiography and then find that we’d lost an hour or more. We’d then force ourself to close down Twitter so that we
Continue readingThe West Indies’ 2015 World Cup strategy
2 minute readLet’s take a day off from the office politics and instead take a look at some cricket. The West Indies beat India today. Hypothesis testing One of the most interesting things in the run-in to the World Cup – often more interesting than the tournament itself – is that we
Continue readingCan we please dissolve the ECB?
< 1 minute readWe support the England cricket team. We will always support the England cricket team. It’s just that it would be so, so, so much easier to support the England cricket team if it weren’t being run by the England and Wales Cricket Board. The Pakistan Cricket Board is mental, the
Continue readingIs Kevin Pietersen’s book worth buying?
2 minute readWe didn’t get a review copy of KP: The Autobiography. Apparently it was already getting enough attention without a review appearing here in about six months’ time. We wonder whether we need to read it. The two-page email from Rahul Dravid about how to play spin that features within it
Continue readingKevin Pietersen sort of didn’t really get on that well with a few people he had to spend a lot of time with
2 minute readKevin Pietersen EXCLUSIVES and REVELATIONS are about to rain down on us in the run-up to the launch of his autobiography (apparently most of it’s about him – the egotist). The latest salvo in English cricket’s biggest shitfight of recent times comes in the form of his interview with The
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