< 1 minute readWe haven’t seen this incident yet, but it appears to be big news. That happens whenever someone’s dismissed in a weird way and when there’s also a ‘should he have been given out?’ element, you effectively get two stories for the price of one. As far as we can tell,
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Promotion day in the County Championship
< 1 minute readThere are still two matches to go in the second division of the County Championship, but somehow we already know both the counties who will be promoted. What this basically means is that the other seven teams in that division were sufficiently crap that they failed by a distance. There
Continue readingSix things to watch out for in the first England v Australia one-day international
< 1 minute readLet’s do a match preview like proper cricket websites do. Except for the fact that most of the headings are longer than the sections they relate to, we think we’ve done this right… 1. Jason Roy will ‘show intent’ but won’t get all that many runs We hope he does
Continue readingCameron Boyce fails to purchase sourdough
2 minute readDo you know how far it is from Australia to England? Miles. Absolutely bloody miles. Do you know how long it takes to complete the trip? Ages. Absolutely bloody ages. Cameron Boyce flew from Australia to England for this match. He bowled one over. It went for 19. He didn’t
Continue readingTwenty20 Finals Day doesn’t always scream ‘elite sporting event’
2 minute readLast year, we took Birmingham’s appearance in place of Warwickshire in the T20 Blast as being a watertight scientific experiment into whether a future of city teams would lead to better cricket. Birmingham won the tournament, seemingly proving that it would, although the findings were somewhat compromised by their sickening
Continue readingIan Bell continues to take his toll
2 minute readTurns out Ian Bell’s not retiring. You may have heard that he maybe possibly was. You may not. Either way, he isn’t. The umming and ahhing does hint that his career is nearly at an end though. Soon enough, the bell will toll and watching Bell will no longer take
Continue readingWhat we basically had were two inexperienced teams who can’t bat
2 minute readWhere does 2015 rank in the pantheon of Ashes series? Somewhere in the middle, we’d guess. It was certainly dramatic, but it probably wasn’t even the best Test series this summer. It was unpredictable from one match to the next, but the same quality wasn’t particularly apparent within any individual
Continue readingMomentum’s back!
< 1 minute readAs in ‘returned’. It hasn’t got ankylosing spondylitis or anything, on account of the fact that it’s an abstract concept and therefore doesn’t have a spine or a rear side or whatever. Mocking momentum’s the in thing to do at the minute. Typical that it would come into fashion six
Continue readingAdam Lyth learns that Ashes scores count half
< 1 minute readIt’s quite an impressive feat to field no fewer than eight batsmen and yet still be prone to comically low scores. You could argue that England have too many eggs in the ‘positive brand of cricket’ basket, but if there were a Venn diagram of baskets, that one would overlap
Continue readingEngland snatch the baton of mass suicide and bludgeon themselves to death with it
2 minute readAt some point surprisingly soon, England and Australia will complete the most one-sided close series in history. Not that it’s been one-sided in favour of one particular side. It’s been one-sided in favour of both of them, just at different times. It’s hard to know what to make of a
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