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Category: Extras

March 7, 2019 Extras

Does Harry Kane know how to hold a cricket bat?

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February 19, 2019 Extras

Books to read at the cricket? The Price of Fish by Ian Harris and Michael Mainelli

2 minute readGed Ladd writes: Disclosure: One of The Price Of Fish’s authors, Ian Harris, is my nom d’actualité. I had been invited by the London School of Economics for a video interview around some of the subject matter in the award-winning book, The Price of Fish, A New Approach to Wicked

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February 12, 2019 Extras / Features

Are you David Lloyd’s unoccupied hand when Nasser Hussain is answering a question? Because we are

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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February 4, 2019 Australia / Extras

Unofficial snack food of the Australian national cricket team

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February 2, 2019 Bangladesh / Extras

The Jason Roy catch: Has any wicket in the history of cricket featured a greater gulf in quality between bowling and fielding?

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February 1, 2019 Extras

Now TV might work out cheaper if cricket’s all you want to watch on Sky Sports

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January 25, 2019 England / Extras / West Indies

Which Sky Sports commentator delivered the most appropriate ‘England were all out for 77’ face?

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December 13, 2018 Regulars

A cricket being conspicuously indifferent to the Home of Cricket

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December 2, 2018 Match report

What’s it like to watch cricket at Galle? (Sri Lanka v South Africa match report)

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November 20, 2018 Cricket books | reviews and recommendations

On Cricket by Mike Brearley – book review

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