< 1 minute readThe BBC go with ‘Craig Kieswetter keeps England one-day spot’. Cricinfo have got ‘Craig Kieswetter and Ian Bell earn ODI calls’. In what world is this news? Craig Kieswetter hit a hundred in his last one-day international and was man of the match in his last Twenty20 international – the
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Overturning Shoaib Malik’s ban was the best decision
< 1 minute readWe’re using ‘best’ to mean ‘funniest’ there. Of all the player punishments to have been reversed by the PCB in the last few weeks, the reasoning behind the Shoaib Malik decision was the best. Lest we forget, Shoaib Malik was banned for a year for being a negative influence on
Continue readingThe Point at Old Trafford Cricket Ground
< 1 minute readWhat do you make of The Point? We think it looks like an old-fashioned fan heater – only red. A friend of ours thinks it looks like someone’s knocked over a toaster – only red. It’s not bad. Some cricket folk are getting a bit carried away with what it
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< 1 minute readAt 13.22pm, we received word that the crowd had begun construction of the first beer snake. Due to a reduction in staff, production is slow, but overtime may be on offer for those willing to work late.
Continue readingZimbabwe beating India again – how do we feel about that?
< 1 minute readWe know you don’t like it when we don’t have an opinion on something. It’s not that we’re fence-sitting, it’s that in reality we don’t have all that many opinions. We wander through life indecisive and directionless and we’ve done that since before we went to school. Opinions occasionally find
Continue readingRicky Ponting strives for coherence
< 1 minute read“I guess we speak pretty loosely, don’t we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that – and we are, but it’s not with both eyes. We’ve got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we’re the best
Continue readingSteven Finn should fall over in a lot of Tests
< 1 minute readIf there’s one thing we like, it’s people who fall over a lot. With that in mind, we’re calling for Steven Finn to be inked into the England Test team for the forseeable future. We already knew that Finn was an accurate bowler from what we saw in Bangladesh, but
Continue readingShould Tim Bresnan be in England’s Test team?
2 minute readAs a bowler, it’s hard to see what Tim Bresnan offers that no-one else can. He’s a bit of a poor man’s Jimmy Anderson: a fractionally slower, slightly less sophisticated swing bowler who’s not quite as fit as the Burnley Express. Set against that, he was England’s best bowler in
Continue readingTamim Iqbal is in good Test form
< 1 minute readTamim Iqbal has passed 50 in nine of his last 11 Test innings. Considering how he tends to start his innings – hacking away at every ball like he’s a Thracian gladiator de-limbing adversaries – that’s pretty remarkable. Virender Sehwag is probably a role model, but with Sehwag, you rarely
Continue readingJonathan Trott hit a hundred against Bangladesh – what does it say?
< 1 minute readA few people will say that Jonathan Trott‘s 175 not out at Lord’s means nothing, because it’s against Bangladesh. Slightly fewer people will say he’s proving he’s a Test batsman after an ordinary winter. Why go to extremes? Jonathan Trott’s guts and technique could have been tested more, but his
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