< 1 minute readIf you like cricket, as opposed to just enjoying boundaries, it’s been a tough decade or so. We’re always on the lookout for bowlers who can redress the balance and actually make life difficult for batsmen. Very few are able to do that. A few years ago, we got quite
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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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Ashes Cricket 2009 Wii review
< 1 minute readThe Wii version of Ashes Cricket 2009 is quite different from other formats. Having played both, we’d also say it was worse. Batting technique Don’t imagine that you’ll be playing hooks and drives. What you will actually be doing is carrying out a pendulous swing as if you’re putting a
Continue readingAdil Rashid treated like an English leg spinner
< 1 minute readEngland are going to have to watch this. It’s not deliberate, but if you had to design some tactics to erode a player’s confidence, what they’re doing to Adil Rashid might be what you’d come up with. In the summer, Rashid started the one-day series against Australia well and promptly
Continue readingPaul Collingwood part of a proper England one-day batting line-up
< 1 minute readWe were struck that England actually had a good batting line-up today; one with rare solidity. With Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott opening, England have grown-ups at the top of the order. There’s a dependable feel about both of them and the rest of the line-up hangs off that. In
Continue readingJimmy Anderson sullied by marketing
< 1 minute readJimmy Anderson’s been signed up by everyone’s favourite overexposed cricket bat brand, Mongoose. All you need to know is that the designer thinks that Anderson’s bowling is “an ideal brand fit for Mongoose”. Imagine what state your soul would be in if you worked somewhere where people regularly said things
Continue readingEngland’s billion-and-one development squads and some other stuff
< 1 minute readWe’re generally of the opinion that despite reading a website written by us, you wouldn’t actually be that interested in anything we’ve written, so by and large we don’t tell you about any of it. That said, we’re feeling lazy and can’t be arsed doing a proper update, so we’ll
Continue readingMahela Jayawardene does not get bored
< 1 minute readAfter Mahela Jayawardene recorded his sixth Test double hundred, it was tempting to wonder whether he ever gets bored. We get bored very, very easily. We get bored midway through unlocking our front door and that takes less than five seconds. The only exception to this is rail travel, where
Continue readingHowzat internet cricket game launched
< 1 minute readWe did a preview of Howzat a few weeks ago. Just to let you know, it’s live now, so you can give it a go for yourselves. It’s free, if that’s what you’re wondering. Play Howzat and let us know what you think.
Continue readingShakib signs for crap second division county
< 1 minute readWe’d sooner Shakib Al Hasan had signed for a first division county, but don’t underestimate the significance of a Bangladeshi clambering aboard the treadmill. It means that while they might be three-and-a-half years late, Worcestershire have cottoned on to the fact that this is a good player – despite the
Continue readingSri Lanka replace Chaminda Vaas
< 1 minute readSri Lanka have searched long and hard and now they’ve finally found a replacement for Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas. Step forward Uda Walawwe Mahim Bandaralage Chanaka Asanga Welegedara, who opened the bowling against India yesterday. If only his mother were still alive to see him make his debut.
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