< 1 minute readAs often as not this year, Harbhajan Singh has hit a fifty against Australia. Quite literally. He’s had eight innings against them and hit four of the six fifties he’s hit in his entire Test career. He is an improved batsman, but Australia won’t be impressed by that. We’re not
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More info about Jason Krejza
< 1 minute readWe’re rapidly turning into the authoritative site on Jason Krejza. Here’s what else we’ve gleaned (from comments that have been left on other updates): (1) His brother might well be called George and if he is, he claims to have taught Jason all he knows about cricket. (2) He was
Continue readingSourav Ganguly – Test captain and ODI opening batsman
3 minute readSourav Ganguly retires after this Test match and a lot of Indians will be incredibly upset to see him go. In other parts of the world, it might not be quite so apparent why he’s so popular. After all, he averages 42.17 in Tests, which is only ‘very decent’ by
Continue readingAnil Kumble retires as India’s top Test wicket taker
2 minute readPeople still slag Anil Kumble off for bowling too fast and not turning the ball. It’s not really the point. 619 Test wickets say that he’s right and they’re wrong. Kumble never spun the ball much – it’s not a recent thing – yet he’s been the best spin bowler
Continue readingVVS Laxman hits another double hundred against Australia
< 1 minute read‘VVS Laxman. How would you rate this among your double hundreds against Australia?’ ‘I would say it was the worst’. No-one asked that really, because everyone knows Laxman’s 281 at Eden Gardens is his best innings. With six hundreds against them and an average of 54, Australia must hate VVS
Continue readingGautam Gambhir against Australia
< 1 minute readAnd Gambhir wins! That seems to be the way this is working. It was four years between Gautam Gambhir’s first and second Test hundreds. Now he’s hit two in two innings. He’s basically an attacking batsman who doesn’t feel he HAS to attack, which is pretty much what you want
Continue readingLancashire sign VVS Laxman
< 1 minute readVVS Laxman is a great player who doesn’t play one-day internationals or Twenty20 internationals. He’s been at Lancashire before and done extremely well and everyone like him. Good signing. It also bolsters Lancashire’s batting, which needs a little bit of enbolsterment right now. Hopefully the enbolstery brought by Laxman will
Continue reading‘Cricketainment’ – has it come to this?
< 1 minute readOne thing we know about people: they love to get wound up about stuff. People love getting irritated, even incensed by things they could so easily avoid. Nowhere is this more true than on the internet. So if you’re one of those people, steel yourself for a good old fashioned
Continue readingAustralia, a young team in transition, look to the positives
< 1 minute readAnd other such euphemisms. Whatever happens tomorrow, it’s been years since Australia were bossed about like this. They’ve lost Tests over the last few years, but those losses have often been helter skelter, chaotic affairs. This is different. Australia are being dictated to. Ever since Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly
Continue readingAmit Mishra takes five wickets on Test debut
2 minute readIn Sri Lanka, earlier this year, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh were outbowled to a frightening degree by Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis. With their spin bowlers stumbling somewhat and Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma doing as good a job as all four Aussie quicks put together in the first
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