< 1 minute readThere are some great stories going around about Ricky Ponting smashing a telly after being run-out against Zimbabawe. We like the ones that depict feeble tantrums rather than those where he has THE RAGE. Our two favourites so far are: That he threw his gloves at the TV and now
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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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Complacent England sabotage their own team
< 1 minute readNo Mike Yardy for England’s World Cup opener against the Netherlands? Are they saving him for later in the tournament? Maybe he’s being remoulded as a secret weapon. Although if that’s the case, he’s not very weapon-like. He seems like something altogether more functional, like a spanner or a screwdriver.
Continue readingPakistan v Australia Lord’s match report
2 minute readWill writes: Despite being a Thursday, it was actually the fourth day of what is now, with hindsight, the totally ironically named MCC Spirit of Cricket Test Series. I had bought the tickets a year before with the intention of taking clients and having a drunken day out on the
Continue readingVirender Sehwag can win the World Cup for India
2 minute readAnd he can do it by scoring slower and hitting fewer boundaries. We often look for individual match-winners and few are so obviously identifiable as Virender Sehwag. Yet cricket is a team game and teams can do more than individuals when they get things right. Sehwag has said that he
Continue readingKevin Pietersen as an opener in one-day cricket?
< 1 minute readYeah? Maybe? Dunno really. England have long known that one-day openers are better off being twat-it-around batsmen. They haven’t fully embraced this though. They tend to pick their second or third best twat-it-around batsman for the job. Preferably the wicketkeeper. Why not do the job properly? If you want a
Continue readingForward defensive | Batting lessons
< 1 minute readBring the bat down, clean and true, angled topwards but vertically horizontally. Aim to strike the ball while moving into a stationary position. A good forward defensive stroke will be soft-yet-firm, played late at the earliest opportunity with supple hands that caress the bat handle in a vice-like grip using
Continue readingNewsreader’s ‘small and impressive’ joke about the Ashes
< 1 minute readBrian pointed us towards this. We haven’t really got anything to add.
Continue readingEngland ABSOLUTELY MURDER Canada by 16 runs
< 1 minute read“Avril Lavigne, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette, The Crash Test Dummies. “Shania Twain, can you hear me? Shania Twain, your boys took a hell of a beating.” Sometimes England are so good at one-day cricket it’s physically painful just thinking about it.
Continue readingEngland heroes for the 2011 Cricket World Cup
2 minute readIf you’re English, your heroes shouldn’t be talented or eye-catching. Being English is about celebrating the people who really don’t seem like they should be doing something, but are doing it anyway and are doing it well. Here are the official King Cricket heroes for the 2011 World Cup. These
Continue readingAre you happy with Ravi Bopara being in England’s World Cup squad?
2 minute readWe are. We’d rather have Eoin Morgan, but if he’s got a knackered finger, we’ll settle for Bopara. This is a somewhat unfashionable opinion at the minute and we’re pretty sure it’s because of that phenomenon where Ashes performances are almost wholly responsible for forming people’s opinions. In 2009, Ravi
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