2 minute readWe’ve been here before. Australia are still the team that wins everything – this time gold at the Commonwealth Games. As far as on-the-nose victory anthems go, We Are The Champions by Queen still rules the roost. Comedy writer/actor Stephen Merchant used to talk about trying to write a rival
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2 minute readWe generally try and avoid reading or hearing comments from those entrusted with organising the world of cricket. It’s not a nice world. This is not going to be a long or particularly coherent article. We just want to pick out a couple of quotes we’ve seen this week –
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4 minute readWe tried to get the lay of the land with The Hundred about to get underway. Amid all the earnest stat-fuelled previews and grave warnings about how franchise cricket has already eaten international cricket and really only needs to digest it now, we spotted a video about a cricket ground
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3 minute readDid England’s white ball schedule get ahead of you this month? It got away from us. It got away from England too. First, the bare bones of it: England lost both the T20 and ODI series 2-1 to India, drew the ODI series against South Africa 1-1 and then lost
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