Category: Extras

4 minute readWe’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Here’s what happened on day four. And here’s the match situation at the start of day five: The Now XI need 318 to win. The 90s XI

4 minute readWe’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Here’s what happened on day three. Here’s the match situation. The 90s XI leads by 264 runs with nine second innings wickets in hand. We’re not a

4 minute readWe’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Day two went like this. Here’s the match situation. No comment from us on any of this because we’re completely impartial. It’s going to be a pivotal

4 minute readWe’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Day one was fairly stupid in that Nathan Lyon took four wickets. No matter which team you’re supporting, let’s hope that’s the end of that sort of

4 minute readWe’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Let’s start with teams and stats. Partly because we imagine you want to pore over the averages, but mainly because there’s a 12th man joke we want

3 minute readWe’re going to play a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI. Let’s pick the latter. As we asked the other day, what is ‘now’? We’re still niggled by the notion that the 90s XI has a whole era of talent at its

5 minute readWe’re going to play a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI. Let’s pick our first team. After we announced that this particular Sim Series Test was going to take place, there was quite a lot of discussion about who should be in

2 minute readWe’re going to play another Sim Series. The last few were a bit Ashes-centric so this time we’re going to pit a World 90s XI against a World Now XI. If you don’t about Sim Series, this is how it works: we pick two fantasy teams based on some flimsy