< 1 minute readBritish readers will never have seen this. We saw it rather a lot when we were in Bangalore earlier in the year. It’s quite something. Watch it three times and see whether the tune’s stuck in your head.
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Andrew Strauss’s wedgie handle
< 1 minute readThere’s all sorts of odd cricket equipment around these days, but we’ve no idea why someone would attach a handle to their own underwear to better enable them to self-wedgie. [God knows what this image was. It must have been hilarious though.]
Continue readingMuttiah Muralitharan retirement – knee jerk reaction
< 1 minute readWe’re certainly intending to do a proper Muralitharan retirement post – possibly after his last match – but for now, we can’t be bothered. These are the things that immediately came to mind when we heard he was retiring: Muttiah Muralitharan might just surpass Steve Harmison in our estimation as
Continue readingShaun Tait’s bowling speed
< 1 minute readShaun Tait is unquestionably a fast bowler – probably the fastest around at the moment. You can tell because batsmen regularly ‘make room’ to play him – they’re getting their bodies out of the way, not freeing their arms. A Shaun Tait delivery was clocked at 100mph at Lord’s in
Continue readingCraig Kieswetter, Shaun Tait and marketing brave new England
< 1 minute readWhen we suggested that Australia’s current one-day team wasn’t its strongest, people took this as making excuses on their behalf. We’re not a naysayer when it comes to this England one-day side. We’re just pleading for perspective. For example, when Shaun Tait didn’t play, England lost 12 wickets in two
Continue readingA worrying Rob Key development
< 1 minute readThanks to Bradders for pointing us towards this: But also not thanks. Pretending things are guns is never cool. Somebody will have told him to do it, but that doesn’t matter. Rob could have gone for bat-as-guitar or bat-as-snooker-cue even. Both would have been better than bat-as-gun. There’s the sunglasses
Continue readingThey’ve wedged in some County Championship fixtures
< 1 minute readShit! They’re playing County Championship matches. How did that happen? We’d checked the fixture lists and had therefore been slacking off because it’s only the Twenty20 Cup and we can’t really be arsed with that until they’ve finished the crappy group stages. But knock our chicken and chorizo sandwich to
Continue readingSomeone’s challenged Shiv to a crease occupation contest
< 1 minute readAshwell Prince’s 262-ball 78 not out effectively said to Shivnarine Chanderpaul: “You think you can bat time? Come on. Let’s see what you’re made of.” Why would you do that? Shiv has now found himself in a situation where the West Indies are deep into their second innings, only a
Continue readingIan Botham’s rich mahogany armpits
< 1 minute readNow there’s a post title for you. We’ve had another Sunday post at Cricinfo that you’ll all have missed. It’s about great English cricket embarrassments and we wrote it after England had nearly lost to Ireland in the World Twenty20. They’ve been great since then and we’re taking the credit.
Continue readingEngland cricketers taking penalties
< 1 minute readWorst. Collection of nicknames. Everrrrrr. You can watch England’s cricketers taking penalties here. We’d have put the video on this page, but there isn’t a YouTube option small enough. A site redesign is probably in the offing, but really, how often do we feature videos? It can wait. The video’s
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