2 minute read Let’s take a day off from the office politics and instead take a look at some cricket. The West Indies beat India today. Hypothesis testing One of the most interesting things in the run-in to the World Cup – often more interesting than the tournament itself – is that we
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Sunil Narine taken out to the Pine Barrens
< 1 minute read Do you get the feeling that there are a number of dead men walking at the minute? It’s like one mob family has ordered a series of hits on a rival family and now capos and crew members are being picked off as they go about their daily business. Sunil
Continue readingWere Sri Lanka far and away the better team?
< 1 minute read Growing up, our home town had one cinema, which had two screens. If you wanted to watch a film, you watched what was on. That’s the only possible explanation as to how we once found ourself watching Far and Away, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Towards the end of
Continue readingWhen is a lottery not a lottery?
< 1 minute read Minnows, upsets, India v Pakistan and the semi-finals already – this World T20 is getting the job done. And while some people claim that Twenty20 can be a lottery, you can make a strong case for the four remaining teams also being the four strongest. Sri Lanka v West Indies
Continue readingJames Faulkner can even make Chris Gayle lose his cool
< 1 minute read “I don’t particularly like them,” said James Faulkner before Australia played the West Indies. He must positively detest them now. Here’s another Faulkner quote. “If you can do something to upset somebody and upset their team, it goes a long way towards doing well as a group.” He got that the
Continue readingDarren Sammy’s surely on the way out, right?
2 minute read We’ve got a Sachin Tendulkar post saved as a draft, but let’s look elsewhere today. Let’s look at the West Indies captain, Darren Sammy, who’s currently having a ‘mare. We rather like Sammy. Not just because his initials make him DJ Sammy, not just because he purveys genuine medium-pace and
Continue readingGeneric ‘someone is better than someone else’ post
< 1 minute read South Africa are supposed to be playing the Windies today, then India play Pakistan before England play New Zealand. However, we’re away for the weekend with no plans to use the internet, so you’re going to have to fill in the gaps yourselves in the comments section. We’re not really
Continue readingIndia are better than the West Indies
< 1 minute read And largely thanks to the bowling of Ravindra Jadeja, of all people. We’re still not quite sure how he gets wickets. This week’s instalment of The Spin was about Jadeja and how fans didn’t value him for a long time. We’re glad he’s no longer getting a hard time, but
Continue readingWest Indies are better than Pakistan
< 1 minute read This post title policy will come to a crashing halt should England lose to Australia today. An odd and absorbing match at the Oval, where only Misban-ul-Haq and the Jam Shed managed to score more than six runs in Pakistan’s innings. Misbah’s 96 not out was exactly the kind of
Continue readingChris Gayle’s 17 sixes were no great surprise
< 1 minute read The worth of a Twenty20 player cannot be measured via a single innings. That’s a mistake many people make – they confuse aberrations with excellence. It’s therefore worth underlining the sheer inevitability that it would be Chris Gayle who would break the record for the highest individual score in the
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