< 1 minute readMahaboob Alam plays for Nepal. He took 10-12 from 7.5 overs against Mozambique. Mozambique made 19, so Mahaboob Alam was quite expensive. Still, on balance, well bowled Mahaboob Alam.
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Andrew Strauss repairs his stats
2 minute readFortunate to be given the opportunity to do so, Andrew Strauss saved his Test career with a whopping 177 in the third and final Test of the tour of New Zealand. Since then, he’s hit 63, 60 and now 106 and suddenly there doesn’t seem to be much of a
Continue readingMonty Panesar at Old Trafford
2 minute readIt’s been three years since we last went to the Old Trafford Test and didn’t see Monty Panesar take five wickets. Actually, that’s not strictly true. We went to two days of last year’s West Indies Test and on one of the days he only took four wickets. In 2006
Continue readingAndrew Symonds, a terrible batsman, hits some very lucky runs
< 1 minute readIn January we said that Andrew Symonds had disproved our feeling that he wasn’t the man you wanted at the crease if you’d lost early wickets and everyone rounded on us for not thinking he was the mutt’s nuts even sooner. So we’re a bit uncertain what to say about
Continue readingJoe Denly hits a fourth innings hundred
< 1 minute readWhile largely overshadowed by Rob Key‘s silky 26, Joe Denly‘s 149 was still a weighty contribution towards a Kent total of 250. Kent lost, but you can’t really blame No Pants for that. Has anyone got any information on that nickname’s origins yet? If you do know and it’s a
Continue readingDaniel Flynn’s lost tooth
< 1 minute readJacob Oram and the short ball: You pair are going to be great friends. It may have been Daniel Flynn’s tooth that James Anderson removed with a bouncer, but Jacob Oram looked the more uncomfortable against short-pitched bowling. Of course Flynn’s bloodied mélange of flesh and teeth went way beyond
Continue readingJames Marshall gets asked a stupid question
< 1 minute read“So, are you any relation to Hamish Marshall?” Writing in his Cricinfo diary, Ross Taylor says someone asked James Marshall that. James and Hamish are identical twins, if you didn’t know. This was either the most admirably, pig-headedly stupid and obvious joke of all time or it was asked by
Continue readingThe Old Trafford pitch
< 1 minute readSportsfreak are running a cricket tipping competition about the England v New Zealand series. We are currently equal second out of 12. For the last Test we used reasoning for precisely one of the questions and got it right. Michael Vaughan has scored bucketloads of runs at Lord’s, so we
Continue readingLatest news from the IPL
< 1 minute readIt’s been a while since anyone was interested, so what the fudge is going on over there? Well, everyone’s played either 11 or 12 matches out of 14. Rajasthan Royals are top for whom Mr Ego, Shane Warne, is both captain AND coach. Two points behind them are Kings XI
Continue readingMatthew Hayden has another go at talking
< 1 minute readIt never goes well. Matthew Hayden is very poor at executing his talking skills. Thanks to RC for pointing us towards Hayden’s latest attempt in an interview with Cricinfo. Here are some highlights: “I go to the middle, I mark the crease and I squat on the wicket. I feel
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