< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images Big innings, bigger innings, small innings, smaller innings. That used to the be the sequence for a Test match taking place in India. Declarations happened a lot. Australia just made 451 and it seems a good score, but it wasn’t so long ago you’d be thinking
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Video: Steve Smith tries to counter Wriddiham Saha’s ball-delving
< 1 minute readDay one of the third Test between India and Australia. Glenn Maxwell played cricket and made runs, Steve Smith uglied yet another hundred and Wriddiham Saha went snuffling around in the Australian captain’s crotch in an attempt to pluck out a ball. Here’s a video. Wriddhiman Saha & Steve Smith
Continue readingThe India players have started faking injuries
< 1 minute readPat Farhart news! About time. It’s been almost a decade. Farhart is of course the physio who not-all-that-famously helped Australia spinner Beau Casson’s groin “respond”. He hasn’t got down to any of that sort of business with India yet, but he’s working towards it. Mark our words. He’s giving neck
Continue readingVirat Kohli accuses Steve Smith of line-crossing
< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images “There’s a line that you don’t cross on the cricket field,” said Virat Kohli, shortly after suggesting that the Australians had been looking to their dressing room for help when deciding whether to review decisions or not. You realise what this is, don’t you? It’s an
Continue readingDid India give Australia a 1.4 Test head start?
< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images It would seem a bit much to give the opposition a 1.4 Test head start in a three Test series. The finish line could be crossed with little more than a trip and a fall. Apparently this is a four Test series though, so perhaps India
Continue readingNathan Lyon transforms into Australia’s Steve O’Keefe
< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images Or at least it could be seen that way if Australia didn’t already have a Steve O’Keefe. Nathan Lyon still bowled like one though. You know that classic Steve O’Keefe thing; the one where you go to India and spin them out for under 200? Lyon
Continue readingA poor pitch? And Australia won?
< 1 minute readThe Pune pitch on which Australia beat India was rated poor on the grounds that it gave too much assistance to spinners. This is a paradox. Australia made 260 and 285. Australia did. Australia. Australia, with their leaden hands and their be-aggressive-but-patient-and-show-a-bit-of-mongrel-and-play-in-this-one-specific-way-but-find-your-own-method approach to facing spin bowling. They managed to
Continue readingAustralia and spin bowling – all of their problems are completely solved
< 1 minute readIt’s hard to see how India’s batsmen could possibly learn to play Steve O’Keefe any better than they did on the one occasion they’ve faced him. Compounding this is the 100 per cent true fact that they’ve already committed to playing on pitches identical to that used in the first
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Matt Renshaw retires hurt because of the wild shits
< 1 minute readMatt Renshaw might think that ‘while batting during day one of a Test match’ is the worst time to realise that you’ve been struck down by a case of the wild shits. All we’d say is at least it wasn’t the start of an overnight train journey with no hotel
Continue readingWhy did Tymal Mills go for so much at the IPL auction? Because he’s fit for purpose
2 minute readTymal Mills has been signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore for £1.4m. In response, many have felt inclined to ask what Ian Botham, Viv Richards or Ian Austin might have gone for. This seems to us to be somewhat missing the point. In the UK, the phrase ‘Twenty20 specialist’ still has
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