< 1 minute readDon’t know. New Zealand are yet to make any runs and yet have won both games, the Windies are also unbeaten, while everyone else has lost at least once. England looked like the England of old in their first match. South Africa failed to defend a million. Sri Lanka have
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What is pre-qualifying?
< 1 minute readWe’ve seen a number of people this week referring to the first phase of the World T20 as ‘pre-qualifying’. The word they are looking for is of course ‘qualifying’. Yes, it takes place before the tournament – or pre-tournament if you will – but that’s what qualifying is. It’s qualifying
Continue readingWe wouldn’t call ourself a staunch defender of Twenty20 cricket but…
< 1 minute readWe were going to draw together a bunch of our articles about the nature of Twenty20 cricket for today’s update as a kind of ‘easy win’. However, when we started searching the site to put this together, we discovered we already had such a thing. Hurray! Even easier win! Then
Continue readingA mankad prevents batsmen from taking the piss
< 1 minute readBefore the Asia Cup qualifying round, the Asian Cricket Council is said to have met with the four Associate teams and told them not to mankad. Oman’s Aamir Kaleem was having none of it. He did for Hong Kong’s Mark Chapman in precisely that manner. Oman won. There’s now been
Continue readingMop-up of the last few days – it’s been a while
2 minute readSorry the website was knackered. We’re sure you all missed us enormously. Web hosts being web hosts, we’ve no clear idea what actually happened, but it seemed like actual damage and not just someone flicking the wrong switch. At least there were backups. This contrasts with our old job where
Continue readingMop-up of the day – Hello and goodbye and are you leaving?
< 1 minute readBuoyed by a first innings display in which he took six for a million, Neil Wagner persisted with his innovative attritional shock tactics in the second. He took 1-60. It’s worth noting that Wagner produced this display despite a broken hand. More accurately, he produced this display despite a broken
Continue readingWe wrote about what some other people wrote on Twitter
< 1 minute readIt’s a harder task than you might imagine. The spoils of our long hours of trawling are over at Cricinfo. Nando’s Watch is back by popular request and there’s also a bit about Danny Morrison. We love Danny Morrison and his unrelated-bullet-points style of communication. It’s good to see he’s
Continue readingA cat struggling to be indifferent to cricket
< 1 minute readMarissa writes: I can offer no explanation as to why Moggy is even trying to pretend she’s not watching the match, seeing as she’s a staunch England fan (named after Eoin Morgs). During the match she frequently yelled at Bairstow “I can’t believe he’s not Buttler!” And yes, she uses
Continue readingHow will BBC website’s Cricket World Cup highlights work?
< 1 minute readIf you haven’t heard, the BBC’s secured the rights to publish video highlights of Cricket World Cups on its website. As with most things in our life, we can’t tell whether this is hugely significant or neither here nor there. The way it’s described, it sounds like short video clips
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Why Test cricket is not about runs
3 minute readPit the same two teams against each other in different places or in different weather and you’ll get a different match. This is what makes Test cricket more intriguing than the upside-down picture of a crow with human legs in our local pub. With such breadth comes varying levels of
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