< 1 minute readIt doesn’t make the heart race, but it is brilliant. Andrew Strauss now averages 61.85 in Tests in India. Paul Collingwood averages 68.20. Kevin Pietersen averages 27.62. Sometimes you need to clog your way to success and Strauss and Collingwood can bunt singles with the best of them. Strauss has
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Zaheer Khan – average record belies his class
< 1 minute readZaheer Khan deserves better than 2-36 and we won’t begrudge him if he gets more wickets. There are talented bowlers out there who have unflattering career records and Zaheer’s one of them. It seems wrong to watch a bowler unveil such a range of skills and then see that he’s
Continue readingSafety concerns when touring India or Pakistan
2 minute readWe didn’t want to say anything on this subject, because we feel fairly certain it will show up our ignorance and that’s something we can comfortably highlight without remotely stretching ourself. This issue is monopolising the cricket news though, so it deserves comment. Feel free to put us straight on
Continue readingEngland ask for some commandos to look after them when they tour India
< 1 minute readDon’t know about you, but having commandos around wouldn’t relax us. It would put us distinctly on edge. This news just about gives us an excuse to publish this: Ed sent it to us ages ago for a completely different reason. We asked him if he’d done it at work.
Continue readingEngland will probably play the Tests in India
< 1 minute readThis probably doesn’t warrant an update all of its own and it probably doesn’t need saying, but if England were touring Pakistan and Karachi had been attacked, the Tests would be more off than last year’s milk in the midday sun. We’re not saying that England should be touring. We’re
Continue readingThe IPL has been of less use than an entire career playing in India
< 1 minute readSo, having lost an overlong four match one-day series, England are now one down in the subsequent three match series. That’s what’s happening, right? Recently we’ve read a few things about England being left behind in one-day cricket. This rather insinuates that they’ve caught sight of the peloton at some
Continue readingStuart Broad’s hair
< 1 minute readStuart Broad appears to have been to a barber’s in India. We’ve deduced this by the fact that he’s now got a nice, sensible side-parting, where before he had an effete, highlighted mullet. If you go to a barber’s in India, you can ask for what you like, but more
Continue readingMahendra Singh Dhoni is skipping the match that you’ve waited all year to go and see
< 1 minute readThe kid who sits next to you at that match will have been waiting for a tenth of his life. He’ll find out that his hero isn’t playing and he’ll cry. “Players know their body best and in future more and more players would come out and say that they
Continue readingYuvraj Singh ups his IPL price
< 1 minute readThis was England’s 500th one-day international. It was Yuvraj Singh’s 219th. Yuvraj is 26. Once again Yuvraj hit a hundred. This time, he also took four wickets. We’re not sure it would make a huge amount of difference, but we’re inclined to agree with everyone else in the entire world
Continue readingYuvraj Singh hits a hundred despite a knacked back
2 minute readHas any batsman every played a more destructive innings while wearing a girdle? We’ve always liked Yuvraj Singh, but he’s lost a little bit of lustre lately. This is largely thanks to Sky Sports’ ‘look at all the cricket we’ve got’ advert which starts with a big orchestral crescendo, before
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