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India v Australia Bangalore Test match report
3 minute readRitesh writes: It was my last day as a Bangalore resident – I was saying goodbye to the city after calling it home for seven years. It was a time for quiet reflection, for spending quality time with friends and eventually for inebriated celebration. Time, in other words, for a
Continue readingAndrew Hilditch article with sandwiches in it
< 1 minute readWe wrote a wilfully opaque piece about Australia’s chief selector for Cricinfo which doesn’t once mention cricket. We like to do the mass appeal crowd-pleasing stuff. We think it’s quite good though. One of our better ones. We wrote it drunk, which has led to some pretty revolutionary ideas about
Continue readingMatthew Hayden Ashes reaction
< 1 minute readEven now, people often ask us to write about Matthew Hayden. We never do. Partly it’s that Hayden has retired and is therefore no longer ‘a target’. Mostly it’s just that we don’t like doing what people ask us to do. With that in mind, we’d like to emphasise that
Continue readingSpartacus being conspicuously indifferent to Nathan Hauritz
< 1 minute readMiriam writes: Here is my cat Spartacus being conspicuously indifferent to Nathan Hauritz, just like the Australian selectors.
Continue readingGeoff Boycott fourth Test Ashes prediction failure
< 1 minute readSam writes: First morning of the fourth Test on Test Match Special. Geoff Boycott: “I can’t see any way England are going to win this.” Jonathan Agnew: “We’ve only had 12 minutes!” Geoff Boycott: “Well, I’m supposed to know what I’m talking about. That’s why I’m the expert and you’re
Continue readingThe only way to celebrate an Ashes win
< 1 minute readYou’ve got to pull out all the stops at a time like this. So here’s a Venn diagram made by someone else: Never let it be said that we don’t make the effort. Thanks Ged.
Continue readingHappy Boxing Day Test Eve
< 1 minute readThe thought that anyone might visit this website on Christmas Day is, frankly, horrifying. However, Christmas Eve is just the sort of don’t-know-what-to-do-with-yourself kind of day it was made for, so we’ll wish you a happy Festivus now.
Continue readingEngland v Pakistan 2010 Oval Test, day two match report
2 minute readBradders writes: One year on from my wedding, I was again confronted with the prospect of missing more cricket. This year, however, we had decided to have our anniversary in London rather than Ireland, therefore enabling us to go to the Oval for day two of the third Test. Technically,
Continue readingEngland v Australia 2009 Oval Test match report
< 1 minute readBradders writes: My wife Pauline and I were married on the 20th August 2009 in Adare, southern Ireland. Due to it being the first day of the final Test of the Ashes series, it was obviously a momentous day. Having booked the wedding a year before (and prior to the
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