3 minute readConsidering he’s been the highest profile player for pretty much the whole time we’ve been following cricket, we’ve missed an awful lot of Sachin Tendulkar’s career. We went to the match in which he scored his first Test century, but we didn’t see him bat. Then, for a long time
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We haven’t written about Sachin Tendulkar
< 1 minute readWe’ve instead written about writing about Sachin Tendulkar over at Cricinfo. Within minutes of it being published, it had already attracted insightful comment: “Now finally great person retirement time will came But We expecting good support for younger with their experience. This Type of great person very low volume coming.”
Continue readingWhat’s driving run inflation in one-day cricket
4 minute readYesterday, the man they used to call Nohit Sharma made a one-day double hundred, but even eight wickets down, Australia seemed in with a chance of chasing their 384 run target. Ludicrous totals seem to have become the norm in one-day internationals (ODIs) and even India’s captain has been complaining
Continue readingVirat Kohli rises above the rate of inflation
2 minute readEvery year they change the rules for one-day internationals and every year the highest-scoring matches become even higher scoring. That’s where the effects are most keenly felt – at the top end. If there’s one man you want in your team in a modern world where targets of 350 and
Continue readingIshant Sharma’s death bowling
< 1 minute readBailout made an unusually strong and comprehensive argument in favour of Stuart Matsikenyeri when we requested names of players whose continued selection seems inexplicable. However, Ishant Sharma was mentioned more frequently. Sharma seems to be the subject of much scrutiny at the minute. A Cricinfo article about him last week
Continue readingAustralia beat India 12-11 at sixes
< 1 minute readSo, technically, one-day cricket isn’t ‘all about hitting sixes these days’ because India won. Australia made 359-5 and India skittered to 362-1 in 43.3 overs in reply. Rohit Sharma hit a hundred and looked quite angry about it. Virat Kohli hit a 52-ball hundred and looked extraordinarily angry about it.
Continue readingAn important seat has become vacant
< 1 minute readFrank Skinner often talks about there being different ‘seats’ for public figures. The premise is that there are certain timeless jokes which require a well-known figure with certain characteristics for the punchline and there always has to be someone to fulfil that role. The person may change, but the joke
Continue readingThe day after Sachin Tendulkar announced his retirement there’s only one thing to do
< 1 minute readAnd that’s make a really obvious and not-particularly-funny joke about something entirely unrelated which would have been timely had it appeared seven months ago, but which probably still wouldn’t have been original even then. Brace yourselves… So, hey, is Justin Timberlake’s ‘new’ album, like, all about Twenty20 cricket or what
Continue readingApparently, the BCCI are waiting
2 minute readHave you been following this India-South Africa brouhaha over the last few weeks? Just because something’s reported as if it’s not massively childish, doesn’t mean it isn’t massively childish. Basically, there’s a whole load of politics going on, which is sod all to do with cricket and everything to do
Continue reading“Vitiated on account of malafide”
< 1 minute readThank you, the IPL, and Lalit Modi specifically, for introducing us to this phrase. It appears to be Modi’s main defence in misconduct charges related to bid-rigging, ‘arm-twisting’ and summat to do with the sale of TV rights. It basically boils down to: “He’s well got it in for me,”
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