< 1 minute readMaybe if you’re very lucky this Christmas, you’ll get a gift that is so good, you simply don’t know what to do with it. That’s how we feel about Phil Hughes being caught by Martin Guptill off the bowling of Chris Martin for the fourth time in four innings. It’s
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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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Has the Australia cricket team bottomed out?
2 minute readOn balance, we still think that they already had. Others will argue that being bowled out by New Zealand for 136 represents a further low, but we think it’s an improvement on being bowled out for 47. That’s how bottoming out works. It’s not like bouncing back. When you bottom
Continue readingTechnically we haven’t seen Phil Hughes’ latest dismissal
< 1 minute readBut only technically. “I’d love him to be in the team,” said Ross Taylor before the second Test. “I think his technique has improved out of sight,” said Michael Clarke. “If Hughes plays in Tasmania then obviously Chris Martin will be bowling at him and hopefully Martin Guptill takes a
Continue readingVirender Sehwag has something to shout about in one-day cricket
< 1 minute readAnd it’s about time. We were talking about Sehwag’s unspectacular one-day record on this site only the other day. He’s properly addressed that now by hitting the highest one-day international score of all time. Sehwag deserves a one-day record – not because he’s an exceptional one-day batsman, but because he’s
Continue readingStick Cricket now available on Android
< 1 minute readNot as good as android cricket now being available on a stick. Yes, that’s right, today’s entire King Cricket offering is a limp one line joke based around our love of robots and our luddite attitude to mobile phones. We haven’t even explained what Stick Cricket is or included a
Continue readingAndrew Symonds – reality TV star
< 1 minute readAndrew Symonds: he’s just a hard-drinkin’, fishin’, pig-wrestlin’ Aussie who’s only happy doin’ outdoors things in the bush. He loved cricket, but life in the public eye was too much for him. The intense glare of the media made him crack. Thankfully, all that’s behind him now and he can
Continue readingIndia lose home one-day international – West Indies win away
< 1 minute readWhich is the more noteworthy? Not sure. Not sure it matters. Both facts are pretty striking. West Indies West Indies’ tour of the subcontinent, while on the face of it relatively unsuccessful, has been fairly decent in our eyes. It’s a bit sad that expectations have dropped that much, but
Continue readingThe ball is coming out of the hand well
< 1 minute readWe were reading about Australia’s latest call-up, Daniel Trevor Christian today. Aside from wondering whether a West Indian cricketer could trade him a surname for one of his first names, we were also struck by his use of the phrase ‘the ball is coming out of the hand well’. We
Continue readingJames Pattinson and Australian desperation
2 minute readIt’s been a great period in Australian cricket. There have been so many poor performances that the nation attained that blissful state where everyone’s running around screaming ‘do something!’ without any agreement as to what that something might be. It didn’t matter who was right and who was wrong, just
Continue readingDavid Warner’s Twenty20 reputation
2 minute readWe’ve some sympathy for the young, millionnaire cricketer, David Warner – and it’s not just because he’s Australian. We feel that sympathy – just a small amount – because he’s been branded a Twenty20 player. Warner’s done well off the back of Twenty20, but he’s always going to have to
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