2 minute readIf Australian cricket is respected for anything, it is respected for that time David Boon skulled 52 beers on a flight from Sydney to London before the 1989 Ashes (supposedly). If Boon could see the state of modern Australia now (and was also dead or buried alive) he would be
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5 minute readHere’s a fact for you: most left-handed batsmen are right-handed. Okay, we haven’t actually delved into the data to uncover that, so that may not technically be a fact. We’re pretty sure it’s true though. Batting is a thing you do with both hands. Just because cricket calls one stance
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4 minute readIndia v Pakistan. The greatest rivalry of all. There are so many aspects to their eternal tussle for supremacy, but this week everybody – every single person in the entire world – is pondering only one specific thing: which nation delivered the better run-out where both batsmen end up at
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4 minute readIn another universe, these five cricketers are the backbone of the England Test team. A handful of players make it in Test cricket. Others get picked and aren’t good enough. Then there are the weird ones; the ones who get a few games, look the business and then for some
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4 minute readNever mind all those Ashes Best XIs. Who would get into the far more hotly-contested 2019 Ashes Worst XI? 1. David Warner – 95 runs at 9.50 First name on our team sheet even if we weren’t starting at the top and working our way down. If Josh Hazlewood had
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< 1 minute readAt the time of writing, it looked rather like Lord’s was going to get its traditional Thursday start to a Test match after all. Maybe the skies will unbruise, but until they do, here’s a thing we wrote for The Cricket Monthly a few months back about bits and pieces
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3 minute readThe Cricket World Cup is insanely long. Cycling’s ‘grand tours’ are considered epic feats of endurance but the World Cup started in May, halfway through the Giro d’Italia, and finished in July, halfway through the Tour de France. (Here’s a recap of the first week of this year’s Tour and
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5 minute readOver time, we’ve become more and more fascinated with one of David Lloyd’s hands. It is the one that hangs by his side when Ian Ward interviews himself and Nasser Hussain at the end of each day’s play on Sky Sports. It is not the one that holds the microphone.
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3 minute readThe Tamperer was an Italian dance music act. They had a number one with Feel It. The most memorable element of Feel It was that the bridge section (there wasn’t really a chorus) went: “What’s she gonna look like with a chimney on her?” There you go. There’s a nice
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7 minute readThe story of international cricket in 2018 is really just all the stuff that happened with Australia. This seems a bit narrow and exclusive for an end-of-year retrospective, so we thought we’d instead focus on all the funny things that happened in 2018 to try and broaden it out a
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