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Darren Gough’s sinister offer
< 1 minute read It’s a shoe. We’re not scared of a shoe, Darren. There’s nothing wrong with having a shoe. It’s not like you’re trying to get us hooked on class A drugs or something.
Continue readingYuvraj Singh in one-day cricket this summer
< 1 minute read We’ve made one or two rash pronouncements in our time. Fortunately most of them are now all-but-invisible on the old site. However, we’re going to bring one to the fore today in a fairly transparent bid to make a player lose form for a couple of matches against England. This
Continue readingPaul Collingwood papers over fragile England batting line-up
< 1 minute read Because if you’ve got a fragile batting line-up, paper is the greatest disguise. You can conceal all manner of batting sins through judicious use of paper. England’s batting folded at Old Trafford but they got away with it. It happened at Headingley and they didn’t. Paul Collingwood’s innings of 91
Continue readingRob Key fined for throwing bat in Twenty20 final
< 1 minute read We thought it was a hissy fit of poise and dignity. If anything, it’s the ECB who should be fined – fined for crimes against perfection. Whatever that might mean. Luckily Rob mastered alchemy years ago and makes his own gold.
Continue readingRob Key hits 182 against Lancashire
< 1 minute read Rob’s now hit 1130 first-class runs this season at an average of 59.47. After last season’s aberration (he was recovering from shoulder surgery) Rob’s back on track. Now seems a good time to fill you in on The Origin Of Rob Key. Just over a score and eight years ago,
Continue readingJames Anderson cruelly overshadowed
< 1 minute read We have several other points to make about the Old Trafford one-dayer. We didn’t want to overburden you yesterday – our slightly addled hero worship seemed sufficient match analysis for one day. James Anderson bowled really well. Probably better than Stuart Broad. Anderson v Tendulkar is turning into an excellent
Continue readingAjit Agarkar tries to fool us with wickets – we won’t be fooled
< 1 minute read Ajit Agarkar is still all kinds of terrible, despite taking four wickets in the fourth one-day international at Old Trafford. We’re not going to be swayed. We accept that his ball to Ian Bell was a beauty, although it was a hideously dreadful leave on Bell’s part. You don’t think
Continue readingRavi Bopara and Stuart Broad given the ultimate honour
2 minute read What were you doing when you were 21 or 22? We were mostly not leaving our room for weeks on end and feeling kind of numb inside. Not Stuart Broad and Ravi Bopara. They were exhibiting extraordinary amounts of steel in rescuing a disastrous one-day international run chase in front
Continue readingStuart Broad has won us over
< 1 minute read We made Stuart Broad one of our ones to watch this season. Despite that endorsement, we’ve not been fully-convinced of his worth yet. A lot of hyperbole’s been spat in his direction and we weren’t really sure where it was coming from. We think we get it now. It wasn’t
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