< 1 minute readHow bloody good are we at saying other people are ace at cricket? We’re really bloody good at it – that’s how bloody good at it we are. Perhaps it’s because we’ve spent our entire life honing our sense of how much everyone else is better than us. Show us
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India beat Pakistan after a bowl out
< 1 minute readWhy must they play these matches at pub o’clock on a Friday? It was probably gripping, but we wouldn’t know because the only gripping we were experiencing was from our own hand around various overpriced European wheat beers. The last word in that sentence rather explains the ham-fisted punnery that
Continue readingRahul Dravid resigns Indian captaincy
< 1 minute readHe was a reluctant captain. He was a reluctant wicketkeeper. When will people realise: All Rahul Dravid is interested in is batting. And batting and batting and batting. Fancy a bowl, Rahul?
Continue readingA one-day series that was actually good comes to an end
< 1 minute readEngland and India drew their seven match one-day series after the final match at Lord’s ended in a tie. India batted first, Sachin Tendulkar scoring every single one of their 92 runs. In reply, England fell to 0-9 until Jimmy Anderson spirited up an unbelievable rearguard action scoring 92 by
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar is still miles better than everyone – especially you
< 1 minute readIan Bell is one of England’s better one-day batsmen. He’s quite experienced now having played 53 one-day internationals. During this time he’s hit 1,854 runs. That’s a lot of runs. You’ll never hit that many. However, Ian Bell is a shrimp, a gnat, or even an atom when compared to
Continue readingRobin Uthappa totally unarsed by insane amount of pressure
< 1 minute readWhat is it with ridiculously young Indian batsmen? They just think they can come over here and chase down 300 plus one-day scores without so much as a hint of knock-kneed panic or paralysing defeatism. Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif are prime examples and yesterday Robin Uthappa, 21, shrugged his
Continue readingLuke Wright’s debut
< 1 minute readWe were moaning about Matt Prior as opener the other day. When Luke Wright was called up to the England squad, it opened up the possibility of his opening up some possibilities through opening… up. He didn’t and Matt Prior scored six, so Wright didn’t do his opening ambitions any
Continue readingYuvraj Singh in one-day cricket this summer
< 1 minute readWe’ve made one or two rash pronouncements in our time. Fortunately most of them are now all-but-invisible on the old site. However, we’re going to bring one to the fore today in a fairly transparent bid to make a player lose form for a couple of matches against England. This
Continue readingPaul Collingwood papers over fragile England batting line-up
< 1 minute readBecause if you’ve got a fragile batting line-up, paper is the greatest disguise. You can conceal all manner of batting sins through judicious use of paper. England’s batting folded at Old Trafford but they got away with it. It happened at Headingley and they didn’t. Paul Collingwood’s innings of 91
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