< 1 minute readAustralia bat first and all but remove any chance of a Sri Lankan win by the end of the first day. On the second day they drive home their advantage before declaring at about 550 allowing them a few overs at the Sri Lankan openers. That was the first Test
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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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Mike Hussey: statistically aberrant and statistically abhorrent
< 1 minute readWhat? You didn’t think we’d come up with something like that and only use it the once. No way. Statistically aberrant and statistically abhorrent – it’s got a rhythm to it AND it makes sense. At least it does so far. When you’ve read it for the 500th time, all
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar tries to camouflage his brilliance
< 1 minute readWell we’re onto you, young Sachin Tendulkar. Just because some young tyro hasn’t learned to turn fifties into hundreds, doesn’t mean we won’t spot real talent when it stares us in the face. This lad’s one to watch. India beat Pakistan in the fourth one-day international and in so doing
Continue readingAn open letter to Kent’s online shop
< 1 minute readDear Kent, Instead of selling ‘Spitfires geometry sets’ and Kent clipboards, phone-chargers and ‘golf towels’, why not stock a few Rob Key mugs? Eh? Maybe make a bob or two. We’ve even come up with a new motto for you all as you busy yourselves putting non-resilient transfers of Rob
Continue readingRob Key to continue as Kent captain
< 1 minute readNot news exactly, more the reporting of the status quo, but if you’re the kind of website that publishes pictures of Rob Key as a pie in the sky, then you’re the kind of website that reports on the status quo – insofar as it relates to Rob Key. Kent’s
Continue readingBowlers forced to wrap their fingers round pink balls
< 1 minute readThere are some things you just have to do and making a ‘pink balls’ joke is one of those things. Pink balls are going to be tested in second XI matches next year with a view to using them in Twenty20 cricket the following summer and in one-day internationals after
Continue readingThe pie in the sky
< 1 minute readThe Count Of Montetwisto writes: “One merry summer’s day I was out walking m’ whippets, as one does, and happened across a field of golden crop. I drew a hearty toke upon my pipe and took in the halcyon vista and thought to document it for you all.” What relevance
Continue readingAndrew Strauss and Paul Nixon execute worst ever high-five
< 1 minute readStrauss has at least got the basics right, but he has neglected to correctly align himself with the recipient of the five. Nixon, for his part, has fived himself in a last ditch attempt to salvage the five. His anguished expression betrays his true emotions however.
Continue readingMichael Vandort irritates Australia for a short while
< 1 minute readThe BBC called it ‘an easy win’ for Australia, but since when has beating Sri Lanka by an innings been easy? It’s not easy getting Michael Vandort out, certainly. Michael Vandort – or Michael Graydon Vandort as we might start calling him from now on (because that’s his name) –
Continue readingYuvraj Singh and his ten mates beat Pakistan
< 1 minute readMost reports of the third one-day international between India and Pakistan seem to have Yuvraj Singh down as the match-winner. In any report there has to be one guy who won the match, but that’s never the full story. All eight Indian batsmen who came to the crease got into
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