< 1 minute read Let’s have a quick show of hands. There can’t be many people who don’t like Dwayne Bravo. When West Indies beat India on Friday, Bravo took 4-38 and then spanked 66 off 36 balls and most people will have been pretty pleased that he was the player making the difference.
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Chris Gayle is awesome at Twenty20
< 1 minute read Amid all the furore when Chris Gayle said he wouldn’t be all that sad if Test cricket died, one key fact slipped into the background: Chris Gayle is phenomenally good at this form of the game. Why wouldn’t he prefer it? Gayle is an exceptional Twenty20 batsman. Arguably the best
Continue readingSuper Sopper, why have you forsaken us?
< 1 minute read Many will blame the abandonment of today’s one-day international between England and the West Indies on the weather and Headingley’s new £600,000 drainage system (which apparently won’t reach its full potential until later in the year for some reason). We don’t. We lay the blame firmly at the door of
Continue readingJames Anderson bowls England to victory
2 minute read James Anderson won this match for England. 5-87 and 4-38. Those are bowling figures that make a difference. James Anderson is now a bowler who makes a difference. ‘Yeah, against the Windies. Wait until he’s playing Australia later in the summer,’ some of you might say. To which we would
Continue readingWhen did England win the Wisden Trophy?
< 1 minute read The West Indies won the Wisden Trophy for the first time in years back in March. Some would say that England regained it today after winning at Chester-le-Street, but they’d be wrong. In reality, England regained the Wisden Trophy the moment the entire West Indian squad gathered round their hastily
Continue readingAn unexpected manufacturer of cricket equipment
< 1 minute read Do you know who makes the light meters that the umpires use to ruin people’s days? Do you? Do you? It’s only Megatron. From the Megatron website: “Megatron manufactures photoelectric cells and instruments for measuring light.” It’s a strange choice of career for a gun that can transform into a
Continue readingChris Gayle ‘celebrates’ a fifty
< 1 minute read When Chris Gayle reached his fifty today, he punched the air with both hands and then shook his head. Maybe he doesn’t think this Test feels like much of an occasion. We don’t know exactly, but to us it seemed like a cricketer who didn’t think much of his own
Continue readingWhy does Fidel Edwards hate James Anderson?
< 1 minute read Fidel Edwards has mostly been bowling at James Anderson’s head of late. Edwards appears to have some sort of a problem with the Lancashire bowler, giving him a mouthful once every few balls and bowling about 5-6mph quicker due to the adrenaline. When these sorts of duels get personal, it
Continue readingSulieman Benn’s bowling action
< 1 minute read One of the commentators during the last Test – we forget who – said that Sulieman Benn had a good bowling action. Now we can only presume that he meant it was solid and reliable or maybe ‘funny’. Because it isn’t a good bowling action. He looks like a horse
Continue readingGraeme Swann loves dismissing left-hand batsmen
< 1 minute read We dare say Graeme Swann quite likes dismissing right-hand batsmen as well, but he doesn’t do it half as often. Of his six wickets in this match, only one was right-handed – Jerome Taylor. This is by no means unusual for Swann. Against right-handers he looks an everyday bowler. Against
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