< 1 minute readIs everyone sick of reading about how Steven Finn could be McGrath-esque? “McGrath is someone I’ve always idolised.” – Steven Finn Thanks Steve. Thanks a stack. It’s just an off the cuff remark to you, isn’t it? You don’t seem to realise the consequences of what you’ve just said. You
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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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Shahid Afridi might smash a hundred
< 1 minute readWith Shahid Afridi, it’s not about what will happen; it’s about what might happen. Pakistan might need 20 an over, but if Shahid Afridi has got a bat in his hand, that’s not beyond the realms of possibility. In order to maintain this feeling, Afridi occasionally needs to do something
Continue readingJames Anderson can’t be arsed with Australia ODIs either
< 1 minute readHe doesn’t say that explicitly, but that’s the gist. “It would be a perfect time to be playing for our counties in the Twenty20 competition, especially while the two overseas players are involved, but it’s out of our hands and we have five one-dayers against Australia to try and cope
Continue readingInternational Cricket Captain 2010 free download
< 1 minute readInternational Cricket Captain 2010 is now available for download. You get a two-day free trial. Or you could just buy it from Amazon. For the cheapskatey among you – which is pretty much all of you – you can get last year’s version for under £6. The 2009 version has
Continue readingDale Steyn and Morne Morkel add chilli, thyme and allspice
< 1 minute readAny sign that fast bowling’s back in fashion is good, but does the victim have to be the West Indies? Dale Steyn took 5-29 and Morne Morkel took 4-19. Great stuff, but you feel bad for who’s on the receiving end. It’s like eating lamb. It’s delicious, but it’s best
Continue readingFriends Provident T20 – keeping the enthusiasm
< 1 minute readAs Marcus Trescothick said after the first match: “One down; 15 to go.” We’ve written about how you can fight the effects of viewer burnout over at Cricinfo. It’s quite a short piece, you’ll be pleased to hear.
Continue readingOf course Craig Kieswetter’s in the England one-day team
< 1 minute readThe BBC go with ‘Craig Kieswetter keeps England one-day spot’. Cricinfo have got ‘Craig Kieswetter and Ian Bell earn ODI calls’. In what world is this news? Craig Kieswetter hit a hundred in his last one-day international and was man of the match in his last Twenty20 international – the
Continue readingEngland v Sri Lanka, ICC World T20 semi-final match report
2 minute readGed writes: A week or so before the match, I e-mailed King Cricket for some advice: “I find myself on business in Manchester Thursday/Friday and have engineered an early evening gap in my activities Thursday so I can see most (at least the closing stages) of England’s T20 semi final.
Continue readingIC 2010 video preview
< 1 minute readMassively disappointed that this isn’t an International Cricket Council backstab simulator. That joke worked better before we realised it was ‘IC’ and not ‘ICC’. We get a penny every time a new person watches this. We’re thinking about buying ourself some crisps later in the year. To be honest, we’re
Continue readingOverturning Shoaib Malik’s ban was the best decision
< 1 minute readWe’re using ‘best’ to mean ‘funniest’ there. Of all the player punishments to have been reversed by the PCB in the last few weeks, the reasoning behind the Shoaib Malik decision was the best. Lest we forget, Shoaib Malik was banned for a year for being a negative influence on
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