< 1 minute read Ian! Look down! It’s right there in front of you! Here we see Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell and Matt Prior desperately searching for the ball while Mahela Jayawardene and Tillekeratne Dilshan complete an all-run hundred for Jayawardene. England weren’t to find the ball again for three straight days and all
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Ricky Ponting with a bat in his mouth
< 1 minute read Pictures like this DESERVE captions: This is what we’ve come up with: (1) Ricky Ponting with a bat in his mouth. (2) Ricky Ponting eats a cricket bat. (3) Ricky Ponting and a cricket bat and the bat’s sort of in his mouth so it sort of looks like he
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar’s helium-filled bat
< 1 minute read Everyone knows about Dennis Lillee’s aluminium bat, but Sachin Tendulkar’s experiment with a helium-filled bat is less well known. Sachin thought the lightness of the bat would allow him to bat freer and longer, but unfortunately, as this picture shows, the excess of helium rendered the bat unusable. During the
Continue readingShaun Tait astride a big cannon
< 1 minute read We’ve been putting altogether too many words on this site of late, so for no real reason, here’s a picture of Shaun Tait astride a big cannon. It’s not THAT big a cannon though. Ho, no, no – not as big as this cannon. We like big cannons. We don’t
Continue readingHow to play the back foot defensive
< 1 minute read Textbook. Keep your eyes off the ball to minimise any chance of edging it. This batsman is looking the opposite way to eliminate even the slightest possibility that he might catch sight of the ball. The merest glimpse could potentially cause him to play for it. Better still he has
Continue readingSourav Ganguly looking really quite pissed off
< 1 minute read While wearing a stupid hat. [This post used to contain a picture of Sourav wearing an East 17 hat while signing autographs at this point. Annoyingly, we can’t find it now.] No joke. We just really like this picture. Don’t make eye contact, Sourav. Write something dismissive as well. That’ll
Continue readingNo Holds Barred Cricket
< 1 minute read No Holds Barred Cricket is a form rarely played these days. It was introduced in the mid-Nineties as a means of injecting a little bit more excitement into the one-day game. Rather frighteningly and contradictorily, the rules are ‘there are no rules’. No Holds Barred Cricket featured large amounts of
Continue readingAndrew Strauss and Paul Nixon execute worst ever high-five
< 1 minute read Strauss has at least got the basics right, but he has neglected to correctly align himself with the recipient of the five. Nixon, for his part, has fived himself in a last ditch attempt to salvage the five. His anguished expression betrays his true emotions however.
Continue readingPaul Collingwood and Graeme Swann engage in some combat mime sparring
< 1 minute read Combat mime is a form of theatrical art whereby two combatants battle one another by expressing certain physical actions without sound. Here Paul Collingwood and Graeme Swann are locked in a stirring head-to-head, where both combatants are doing ‘the window’. Shortly after this picture was taken, Paul Collingwood opened his
Continue readingCarlo and Granville being conspicuously indifferent on the field of play
2 minute read Miriam says: Now that I know you’re still doing animal posts, here are some pictures I took of the cats a little while ago. I tried to play cricket with them, but they were uninterested. In fact, they were indifferent. In FACT, they made such a point of making their
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