< 1 minute readIf there’s one thing the England captain generally lacks, it’s advice from random members of the public. Fortunately for Joe Root, we are prepared to step in and fill that void. It’s a little-known fact that our critically-acclaimed Club Captain’s Handbook for All Out Cricket was originally penned as a
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Bangladesh three long sessions away from Test series victory over India
< 1 minute readRelatively speaking. Escape with a draw and that’s basically a win for the tourists, isn’t it? And being as it’s a one Test series, that would also mean a Bangladesh series victory. Again, relatively speaking. Three sessions seems an awful long time when you’ve only got seven wickets left though.
Continue readingVirat Kohli dealing in daddies and doubles
< 1 minute readIs ‘supersizing’ still a thing or did it die out after that Morgan Spurlock film? We’re old enough now that we should probably research our knee-jerk cultural references to see whether they still apply. Let’s not bother and just assume that this one’s still current. Virat Kohli had never hit
Continue readingWere Alastair Cook (and his family) ‘let out to dry’ by the ECB?
2 minute readAlastair Cook has said that the ECB “kind of let me out to dry a little bit” over Kevin Pietersen’s sacking and the ensuing brouhaha. Being ‘let out to dry’ makes him sound like a cat who’s mistaken bubble bath foam for solid land and now needs the back door
Continue readingEoin Morgan to be Ireland Test captain?
< 1 minute read“Even more than making it in Twenty20 or 50‑over cricket my real ambition has been to become a Test player,” said Eoin Morgan when England first gave him a shot at the five-day stuff. After 16 Tests and two hundreds, it seems highly unlikely they’ll give him another go, but
Continue readingAlastair Cook finally works out that he doesn’t much like being England captain
2 minute readAfter four-and-a-half years and 59 Test matches, Alastair Cook has finally thought to himself: “Wait a minute, this is a rubbish a job and I don’t actually have to do it.” It sometimes seems like every England captain’s career is simply a long, slow deduction that the honour and prestige
Continue readingViv Richards has a chilli sauce
< 1 minute readOr possibly had. Graeme Swann doesn’t make it clear in his tweet just how long the bottle’s been at the back of his cupboard. Amazing find in the sauce cupboard at home…just sampled it for lunch…nearly blew my head off!! #kingviv #masterblaster #raspinhot pic.twitter.com/EDIfBjVTiO — Graeme Swann (@Swannyg66) January 30,
Continue readingMS Dhoni is officially capable of scoring a fifty in a T20 international
< 1 minute readAh, bless. He’d made a few in club cricket, but this was MS Dhoni’s first fifty in T20 internationals. Hopefully this is a first step towards a successful career on the big stage. Speaking after the game, Dhoni may or may not have said: “This was my first fifty in
Continue readingWhy Andre Russell was banned
2 minute readIf you didn’t know it already, “it’s not my fault, I asked someone else to do it for me” is not a legitimate defence for failing to tell dope testers where you’re going to be. Andre Russell has therefore been handed a one-year ban. If that sounds harsh, consider that
Continue readingMop-up of the long weekend – SHIV!
2 minute readWe’ve been away. We’re not really up to speed. Thanks to Roscoe H Spellgood, we know that speed equals distance over time, so we suppose that we’ll just sit around for a while and hope that we recover the ground. Doubtless you can help us out by providing a few
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