< 1 minute read We write Cricket Badger and Cricinfo’s Twitter round-up on a Thursday so we sometimes don’t find time to do a proper match preview if a Test starts on a Friday. Granted, this is perhaps not one of the greater considerations when the powers that be are scheduling cricket matches, but
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James Anderson fully capable of spending nine years at the wrong end
< 1 minute read If ever you want to form a pantomime horse with James Anderson, don’t expect him to dress appropriately the first time. Don’t expect him to get it right the second time, third time, or fourth time either. But give him a while. After nine years of equine double-arsedness, he might
Continue readingThe impossible James Anderson
< 1 minute read People often say of a spell that a bowler ‘looked like taking a wicket every ball’. It’s rhetoric. What they mean is that the player in question looked far more likely to take a wicket than you would normally expect. So let’s word it differently. In his second spell against
Continue readingJonny Bairstow has a fridge door full of hundreds
2 minute read About a year ago, we started getting milk delivered – you know, like how people used to back in the Eighties. No longer do we have to carry weighty flagons of milk in amongst the rest of the big shop; now it just materialises on our doorstep, as if by
Continue readingEngland’s dodgy drivers dobbled by deadly Dasun
< 1 minute read The received wisdom is that you don’t get wickets in Test cricket with dibbly-dobbly medium-pace. This is actually entirely accurate – but only because nobody picks dibbly-dobbly medium-pacers for Tests. The truth is that dibbly-dobbly is tough for Test batsmen. Their net bowlers are 85mph, their bowling machines are 85mph.
Continue readingEngland v Sri lanka post-match analysis
< 1 minute read England are through (to the next round). Sri Lanka are through (as a short format side).
Continue readingEngland v Sri Lanka World T20 in-depth preview
< 1 minute read If England win, they go through. If Sri Lanka win, they or South Africa will go through.
Continue readingMop-up of the day – runs down south
2 minute read After day-night Tests, the latest innovation in the ongoing Australia v New Zealand Test series has been additional opponents. Sri Lanka and the West Indies have been drafted in to keep things fresh, but they couldn’t tip the balance. Australia still had marginally the better day. New Zealand would have
Continue readingSourav Ganguly, man of a thousand spooky impressions (okay, two)
< 1 minute read We could write about Mitchell Johnson’s Test retirement. We could write about some actual cricket. Or we could publish some tweets in which Sourav Ganguly looks frighteningly sickly. Hey Sourav, do an impression of a zombie. Top drawer. Now do an impression of a ghost. Not bad. Note Murali’s T-shirt
Continue readingRangana Herath is embraced by a grateful planet
< 1 minute read You’ve got to hand it to us, we can call matches incorrectly with the worst of them. Almost as if they were goaded into it, Sri Lanka have done everything in their power to make our assessment of them the day before yesterday seem almost criminally inaccurate. We called them
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