2 minute readDon’t expect us to ever do this again – and not just because the competition will, by definition, be moving onto the second round of matches next week. Essex v Lancashire This is the only one anyone really cares about, because everyone supports Lancashire. That’s what our empathy tells us.
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As the IPL and County Championship loom into view, which fantasy cricket game is best?
2 minute readIf there’s one thing we like about fantasy cricket leagues, it’s eking out our few remaining fantasy points/doubloons over half a dozen all-but-unknown cricketers to complete our XI after going a bit overboard with our first two selections and an unsuccessful attempt to rein things in a bit with the
Continue readingCounty cricketers to watch 2017
2 minute readWe stopped doing this in 2014 because we always seemed to end up picking much the same bunch of players as the year before with perhaps one or two replacements. In short, it had become a bit boring and whenever we threw a leftfield selection into the mix to liven
Continue readingFree-to-air cricket debate is short-sighted in the internet age
2 minute readThere’s been a few headlines about the possibility of some free-to-air cricket off the back of the ECB’s proposed new T20 league. People get excited about this sort of thing, but the whole point of free-to-air is that it opens up a larger market, yet this is a form of
Continue readingVirat Kohli is basically livid about beating Australia
2 minute readVirat Kohli must be the dictionary definition of hard-to-please, for no-one on earth is an enraged by their own success as he is. When Kohli makes a hundred, he’s angry. When his team wins a series over Australia – even though he’s not actually playing – he’s positively enraged. We’ve
Continue readingThe India v Australia sitcom
< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images This series has finally bucked its ideas up. We’re not sure at precisely what moment things turned – possibly when Steve Smith played on – but at some point somebody pressed the lever on the View-Master, the slide wheel clicked round and the picture changed. The
Continue readingTom Latham can see the future (+ video)
< 1 minute readThat is the only half-decent explanation for this catch. How good!? – Tom Latham’s in-close-running-one-hander to remove Faf du Plessis #NZvSA ^WN pic.twitter.com/8b2PtYvT6K — BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) March 26, 2017 Far and away our favourite part of this footage is seeing Bruce Oxenford visibly embarking upon a gasp towards the end.
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Steve Smith woefully out of form in the nets
< 1 minute readThat’s what we’ve heard. We’ve heard that Steve Smith can’t find the middle of the bat when he’s batting in the nets. Smith may or may not have commented: “I’ve been hitting it really well out in the middle, so I don’t think I’m out of form. If I can
Continue readingDavid Warner is totally bossing net cricket
< 1 minute readDavid Warner says: “I couldn’t be hitting the ball any better but it’s just that the runs aren’t coming for me at the moment.” In this week’s Cricket Badger, we point out that this runs counter to Temba Bavuma’s matter-of-fact observation that, “you can’t be playing well and not scoring
Continue readingEveryone’s going mental about Hampshire’s Mason Crane
< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images Despite his name, Mason Crane is not some kind of specialist stoneworking construction vehicle. No, HE IS A DESTRUCTION… person. Crane is a 20-year-old leg-spinner who boasts the customary English leg-spinner’s first-class bowling average of 39. Things have changed over the winter though and from now
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