< 1 minute readWho would have thought this match would turn out exactly as everyone expected it to? What were the odds on that? Extremely slim, you’d have thought, what with the extraordinary wealth of alternative outcomes. Tamim Iqbal played a good innings and there was reasonable support from one of Bangladesh’s middle-order
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Sri Lanka force Virat Kohli to use the other knife
2 minute readImagine you have a good knife and a really shitty knife. You regularly use both, but the shitty one’s kind of shitty. It can cope with cheese and maybe a courgette, but you’d never risk it on an onion or something like that. One day you want to slice a
Continue readingVideo: Yuvraj Singh goes nuts against Pakistan
< 1 minute readSuperb power hitting in the final overs of the innings from Yuvraj Singh ???? #INDvPAK #CT17 pic.twitter.com/qtk6tW23Am — ICC (@ICC) June 4, 2017 It’s nice to see that Yuvraj Singh’s nuts-at-the-end-going capabilities are largely undiminished because going nuts at the end has always been very much his thing. For their
Continue readingIndia and Pakistan resolve to fulfil fixture obligation despite Abdul Razzaq’s retirement
< 1 minute readThe cliché is that cricket is a religion in India, which has always seemed to us to greatly overstate the importance of religion in a country where such things are basically ten a paise. Pakistan’s pretty keen on the sport too. It’s good to find things you have in common.
Continue readingBen Stokes or Sunil Narine?
2 minute readBen Stokes played a handy innings yesterday. With his team, Rising Pune Supergiant, chasing Gujarat Lions’ 161, Stokes made 103 not out, batting at five. Cricinfo said that Stokes “owned the MCA Stadium” – although their use of the past tense implies that he’s since sold it or perhaps had
Continue readingVirat Kohli is basically livid about beating Australia
2 minute readVirat Kohli must be the dictionary definition of hard-to-please, for no-one on earth is an enraged by their own success as he is. When Kohli makes a hundred, he’s angry. When his team wins a series over Australia – even though he’s not actually playing – he’s positively enraged. We’ve
Continue readingThe India v Australia sitcom
< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images This series has finally bucked its ideas up. We’re not sure at precisely what moment things turned – possibly when Steve Smith played on – but at some point somebody pressed the lever on the View-Master, the slide wheel clicked round and the picture changed. The
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Steve Smith woefully out of form in the nets
< 1 minute readThat’s what we’ve heard. We’ve heard that Steve Smith can’t find the middle of the bat when he’s batting in the nets. Smith may or may not have commented: “I’ve been hitting it really well out in the middle, so I don’t think I’m out of form. If I can
Continue readingDavid Warner is totally bossing net cricket
< 1 minute readDavid Warner says: “I couldn’t be hitting the ball any better but it’s just that the runs aren’t coming for me at the moment.” In this week’s Cricket Badger, we point out that this runs counter to Temba Bavuma’s matter-of-fact observation that, “you can’t be playing well and not scoring
Continue readingMop-up of the day – the batsmen in and out of form
< 1 minute readAustralia drew with India, but let’s not focus on how admirably they’re performing. Who the hell wants to read about that? Let’s instead concentrate on tangentia. David Warner has said that “it will turn around” for him with regards to his recent poor form. We agree. If he keeps being
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