< 1 minute readWe assume this was why he was just dismissed for 15 in the first Test against Pakistan. Last week, in the only warm-up match for this series, Smith made two against Pakistan A. The innings before that was for Surrey in May. You might think he’d have wanted a bit
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Otherwise known as Alex Bowden, a lapsed cricket journalist who has written for ESPNCricinfo, wisden.com, Cricket 365, The Cricketer and plenty of other places.
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Two days after Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement…
< 1 minute readThere’s only one thing to do. And that’s draw attention to the name of an entirely different cricketer because it’s slightly amusing if you don’t pronounce it correctly. Brace yourselves… Bangladesh have a player called Anamul Haque. Anamul! On top of this, they also have a player called Mominul Haque
Continue readingThe day after Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement there’s only one thing to do
< 1 minute readAnd that’s make a really obvious and not-particularly-funny joke about something entirely unrelated which would have been timely had it appeared seven months ago, but which probably still wouldn’t have been original even then. Brace yourselves… So, hey, is Justin Timberlake’s ‘new’ album, like, all about Twenty20 cricket or what
Continue readingWhy in blazes do you read this website?
3 minute readWe’d really appreciate a bit of feedback about the site. First, some background and an explanation as to why we’re asking. Background We’ve written this website in one form or another since the start of 2006. We wrote just over a thousand posts on the old .blogspot.com domain and have
Continue readingEngland v Australia at Lord’s, day two match report
3 minute readGed writes: It was one of those ridiculously fortunate errors. November 2012. Ged Ladd, distracted, filled in his Lord’s 2013 International Application Form carelessly, failed to tick the box which says “do not send tickets for lesser seats if the area I have chosen is not available”. Naturally, the ticket
Continue readingPakistan Test preparations as smooth as Stickle Bricks
< 1 minute readNext Monday sees a proper Test series – Pakistan v South Africa. Well, we say ‘proper Test series’ but it’s actually just two Tests, so not a proper Test series at all really. The background Pakistan recently managed to lose a Test against Zimbabwe. For any other nation, this would
Continue readingSteve Harmison retires – a tribute to the lolloping ganglatron of mental fragility
3 minute readOdd that it should be Simon Jones who’s last man standing from that 2005 Ashes-winning bowling attack. Ashley Giles retired so long ago we wrote about it on a different web domain, Matthew Hoggard retired last month and while we saw Andrew Flintoff in Didsbury yesterday looking fitter than he
Continue readingApparently, the BCCI are waiting
2 minute readHave you been following this India-South Africa brouhaha over the last few weeks? Just because something’s reported as if it’s not massively childish, doesn’t mean it isn’t massively childish. Basically, there’s a whole load of politics going on, which is sod all to do with cricket and everything to do
Continue readingWeather forecast for the first Ashes Test at Brisbane
< 1 minute readCricinfo is meteorologically ahead of the game. “Clarke under cloud for Brisbane Test” Clearly England should do away with Tremlett, Finn and Rankin and replace them with Mark Ealham, Mike Watkinson and Alan Igglesden to take advantage of overhead conditions. Yes, we have been reduced to this. What of it?
Continue readingCounty Championship 2013 – statistical epilogue
< 1 minute readCricket fans adore statistics. For most of you, the sport itself is just a convenient means of generating data. Numbers are your true love. Here are some. Most runs Gary Ballance (Yorkshire) – 1,251 Wayne Madsen (Derbyshire) – 1,221 Sam Robson (Middlesex) – 1,180 Best batting averages (at least 10
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