< 1 minute readIf you actually enjoy cricket, you can’t help but have enjoyed watching Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer and Umar Gul bowl yesterday. It was better than spoon meat and carbonated dipping jam. That they bowled Australia out for 88 was something of a bonus. Quite simply, this was cricket LIKE IT’S
Continue readingCategory: News
Find out whether you’ll one day captain Pakistan
< 1 minute readUsing a Venn diagram!
Continue readingThe Indian bowling defence
< 1 minute readWell it isn’t a bowling attack, is it? India have got a medium-pacer called Abhimanyu Mithun opening the bowling against Sri Lanka. We hadn’t even heard of him until this morning. Muralitharan said this week that Harbhajan Singh was the only person who could challenge his Test wickets record. At
Continue readingShahid Afridi should only play Test cricket
< 1 minute readOnly four days after returning to Test cricket, Pakistan captain, Shahid Afridi, has again announced his retirement with the typically odd yet straightforward statement: “My temperament is not good enough for Test cricket and we need a proper batsman or a proper bowler.” Only yesterday we were remarking how Test
Continue readingSteven Smith’s bowling action
< 1 minute readYou can waste a hell of a lot of time deconstructing Steven Smith’s double-elbowed chicken dance bowling action. We mentioned this to a friend of ours and he said, quite simply: “I want to deconstruct Steven Smith’s face.”
Continue readingDanish Kaneria outwits Mitchell Johnson
< 1 minute readOne thing we don’t like about modern cricket is the long batting order. We want to see the best batsmen against the best bowlers and then we want the lower order to just fold so that we can get on to the next innings. In truth, these long batting orders
Continue readingAndrew Strauss hits sixes
< 1 minute read13 sixes in 106 one-day international innings and then he hits five during one knock. Andrew Strauss’s six-hitting has gone up a notch. It’s now at notch one. Not sure what notch Shahid Afridi’s up to, but he’s hit 272 one-day international sixes. Afridi’s probably not got much time for
Continue readingCraig Kieswetter media coverage Venn diagram
< 1 minute readThoughts about the media coverage of Craig Kieswetter have been bubbling inside us for a while like Dave’s Insanity Sauce in an otherwise empty stomach. Rather than terrify you all with more than four sentences in a row, we decided it was probably better if we evacuated our system over
Continue readingEngland finally lose to Bangladesh
< 1 minute readThat’s that out of the way then. Up until yesterday, England had won every match they’d ever played against Bangladesh. Not any more. Is it a good thing that Bangladesh won? Unquestionably. Why? Well some of our friends were at the match in Bristol yesterday and one pointed out that
Continue readingWe like that Ian Bell was not out
< 1 minute readIan Bell’s made larger steps towards forcing us into an opinion before now. Yesterday’s 84 not out against Bangladesh was more of a shuffle, but we like that he got the job done – because that is, after all, the whole point. Number three is a funny spot in one-day
Continue reading