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The Dom Bess situation, Afghanistan on your telly + more | Mop-up of the day

3 minute readThe England men’s team are about to play the fourth Test against India, with Dom Bess apparently set to get another game. Meanwhile the England women’s team have started beating New Zealand in a new format, while Afghanistan and Zimbabwe are trying to get in on the current trend for

July 3, 2020 Afghanistan / Features

Can we pause for a moment and try and take stock of Mohammad Nabi’s ridiculous career?

2 minute readMohammad Nabi didn’t play for Afghanistan against Scotland in April 2019. Nothing too unusual there. Nabi had been at the IPL, playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad, and they’d qualified for the closing stages. Except it is unusual. It’s highly unusual. It was Afghanistan’s 112th one-day international (ODI) and Mohammed Nabi played

July 16, 2019 Afghanistan / Australia / Bangladesh / England / Features / India / New Zealand / Pakistan / South Africa / Sri Lanka / West Indies

13 proper highlights from the 2019 Cricket World Cup (and none are from the final because the final was a whole thing all of its own)

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

June 29, 2019 Afghanistan / Pakistan

Mohammad Nabi’s wicket celebration is our favourite wicket celebration

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 36, Afghanistan v Pakistan

June 22, 2019 Afghanistan

Let’s try and put Afghanistan’s rate of improvement into perspective

3 minute readIn the second series of Stranger Things, Dustin hears a noise in a bin. Ignoring the spooky music and his own fear, he goes and opens it. Next thing we see is Dustin depositing a small obese newt thing into the tank he normally keeps his tortoise in. He feeds

June 18, 2019 Afghanistan / England

What was Eoin Morgan aiming for?

< 1 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 24, Afghanistan v England

June 5, 2019 Afghanistan / Sri Lanka

Let’s look at the four phases of the greatest moment of this World Cup so far and work out who had the biggest role in it

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 7, Afghanistan v Sri Lanka

June 1, 2019 Afghanistan / Australia

Steve Smith: the most despicable cricketer in the entire world

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March 14, 2019 Afghanistan / Ireland

Looks like you’ll be able to watch the Afghanistan v Ireland Test on YouTube

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June 15, 2018 Afghanistan / Extras

Afghanistan haven’t scored too many runs, but that’s not really the point at this stage, is it?

< 1 minute readRemember Out of the Ashes? It’s a documentary about Afghanistan’s journey “from war to the World Cup”. We reviewed it here and thought it was rather wonderful. It strikes us that it could do with an update because Afghanistan are a Test team now. This is a highly astonishing state