< 1 minute readBecause surely you are. Australia are 136-5 in reply to Pakistan’s 570-6 at the time of writing. Younis Khan is averaging over 200 in the series. Unless this current partnership really goes somewhere, that’s better than Australia’s top six combined. But never mind unheralded Pakistani bowlers ripping through top Test
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Mop-up of the day – Younus Khan’s bat and Murali’s balls
2 minute readYounus Khan’s just made his third Test hundred on the bounce. We mentioned that he was underrated after the first one. Let’s revisit that. We all know Younus averages some way north of 50 and that he’s now made Test hundreds against every nation, but let’s dig a little deeper.
Continue readingEngland v Sri Lanka at Lord’s Day three match report
3 minute readGed writes: When Daisy and I go to a day of international cricket at Lord’s these days, I apply for seats in the Lower Compton or Lower Edrich, as Daisy likes to hide from the sun. These seats are relatively unpopular with the county members, so we tend to get
Continue readingMop-up of the day – stealth, Siddle, celebrations and social media
2 minute readFirst up, Pakistan v Australia where the ‘home’ side appear to be doing a reasonable job of putting a score on the board. It’s always hard to tell what’s a decent first innings total, but with Pakistan’s flaky batting, you reckon they’d be pretty happy already. Stealth The major contributor
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< 1 minute readThe Shire Horse will be holed up inside the stables for the winter months and so we’re doing a series called King Cricket’s Kings of Cricket in its place. The first cricketer to be so honoured is Brian Lara. There’s also a bit of a preamble relating to the King
Continue readingGraham Gooch and some terrible puns
< 1 minute readIt’s our latest piece for Cricinfo. Here’s what the critics are saying about it: “Ultimate 🙂 ROFL… Next in line is Misbah?” – The Sunday Times Now, if you’ll excuse us, we appear to have one million things to write today and very few hours in which to do it.
Continue readingEngland v Sri Lanka at Lord’s, day two match report
3 minute readGed writes “I’ve been a complete idiot,” said Big Al DeLarge when he phoned me on the Monday before the Test match. “I wrote the date down in the diary but not on the wall chart. My assistant has booked a holiday and I simply cannot take that day off
Continue readingIf you could invite three cricketers to the pub on a Tuesday night…
< 1 minute readWho would they be? And before you ask, yes of course Fantasy Tuesday Night in the Pub is a thing. It’s like ‘who would you invite to your dream dinner party?’ – only why do we have to have a dinner party? Why can’t we just go to the pub
Continue readingIs Kevin Pietersen’s book worth buying?
2 minute readWe didn’t get a review copy of KP: The Autobiography. Apparently it was already getting enough attention without a review appearing here in about six months’ time. We wonder whether we need to read it. The two-page email from Rahul Dravid about how to play spin that features within it
Continue readingMop-up of the season
< 1 minute readEveryone does end-of-season awards, but only ours are called The Horseys. Rest assured that more time was spent writing the column than coming up with the name. If there was one bit that didn’t get finished, it was the Every Dog Has Its Day Award. We didn’t want to call
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