7 minute readIt was a hell of a year. Probably. Who can honestly remember 12 months’ worth of stuff, let alone assign
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The good and bad points of the official song for the 2018 ICC Women’s World T20
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Continue readingShimron Hetmyer just narrowly missed out on making back-to-back hundreds against India
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Continue readingWatch the second Al Jazeera match fixing documentary in which (nameless) England cricketers are accused
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Continue readingThe two very obvious highlights from Pakistan v Australia in Abu Dhabi
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Mohammad Abbas could get hold of your phone number (and so could Naseem Shah)
2 minute readFootage emerged this week of a player who could only ever have been from Pakistan. Supposedly 15 years old – but actually 17 – Naseem Shah took 6-59 in his second first-class match via a heady masala of hooping away-swingers, yorkers and helmet-rattlers. Meanwhile, in Abu Dhabi, Shah’s countryman Mohammad
Continue readingWhy don’t we just pretend that Sanath Jayasuriya the cricketer was a completely different human being?
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Continue readingOlly Stone will maybe be a fast bowler for England some of the time
< 1 minute readIt’s an absolute statement of fact that no-one remotely cares whether England win rain-reduced one-dayers against Sri Lanka. England fans care whether England have an England fast bowler playing for England though. In Olly Stone, maybe they sort of do. And maybe he’ll play a quarter or a third of
Continue readingShane Warne says Jos Buttler is a Houdini-esque escapologist
< 1 minute readThe very great thing about Shane Warne having a book out (ghosted by Mark Nicholas, of all people) is that he appears here, there and everywhere and talks his nonsense and we all get to marvel at how swiftly the man can form opinions and stick to them. Warne thinks
Continue readingIs an Australia player going to say ‘records are made to be broken’?
< 1 minute readAt the time of writing, Australia have made a solid start to chasing 400-and-plenty to win against Pakistan after losing ten wickets for 60 runs in their first innings. We can’t at this point say what we expect the situation to be at the close of play, but it seems
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