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October 21, 2017 Australia / England

When is the Ashes not a Test series?

< 1 minute read When it’s the Women’s Ashes. Starting on Sunday, Australia and England will embark upon one series comprising three T20 internationals, three one-day internationals and a Test match. It is a cricket series. The teams will get two points for victory in each of the one-innings-a-side matches and four if they

October 20, 2017 Extras

Subscribing to BT Sport for the Ashes

3 minute read We’ve been bemoaning the out-of-date way in which broadcasters sell sport to consumers for quite a while now. We were mildly encouraged by changes to Sky Sports announced earlier this year, but they only went so far and also had zero bearing on the upcoming Ashes as BT Sport has

October 18, 2017 England

We’ve added a petition to our Collingwood campaign

2 minute read You can find a link to it at the bottom of our Campaign to Get Paul Collingwood Into England’s Ashes Squad page. We’ve mostly just created it because campaigns always have to have petitions nowadays. It’s not like we get a million signatories and then something happens. It’s not a

October 17, 2017 England

England should play one Test against Ireland every year

< 1 minute read The first Test match for Ireland’s men’s team will be against Pakistan in May 2018. It should have been England. That much is obvious. If two teams can meet without resorting to air travel, they’re close enough that there should be some sort of relationship between them. The relationship between

October 16, 2017 Australia / England

It’s a fine line between love and hate for David Warner

< 1 minute read You’ll of course remember when David Warner took a swing at Joe Root after becoming inexplicably incensed by the Yorkshireman’s inappropriate use of a wig. Halcyon days. There was at least something comical about this particular confrontation; a certain Scrappy Doo quality borne of Warner’s diminutive stature and the sheer ludicrousness

October 13, 2017 Extras

Four-day Tests – slightly less of the duration and epic scope that define the game’s longest format

2 minute read Hurray! Four-day Tests! They’ll be much like five-day Tests, only with the unique selling point somewhat compromised. Who can fail to support an idea as clear and appealing as that one? The thinking seems to be, ‘well, maybe if each match isn’t quite such a big commitment, some countries might

October 12, 2017 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii / Features

Cricket computer game graphics through the ages

4 minute read Last week we suggested that maybe the golden age of cricket videogame graphics had passed; that maybe player likenesses would from now on always be too convincing and insufficiently amusing. Let’s take a look back on how things have changed, starting with the most recent funny graphics and working our

October 10, 2017 Australia / England

The campaign to get Paul Collingwood into England’s Ashes squad

< 1 minute read What else does nostalgia prove, if not that everything was better in the past? Let’s do the who, the what and the why. Who? Paul Collingwood. Paul is 41 and hasn’t played Test cricket for England since 2011, so the first thing to say in favour of his selection is

October 8, 2017 Australia / England

Did you know that it’s the Magellan Ashes this time around?

2 minute read Sponsorship is a wonderful thing. It keeps fun stuff profitable and it allows sports players to sound institutionalised and cut off from reality. Midway through the British summer, we saw Alastair Cook being interviewed on breakfast TV. Consummate professional that he is, Cook never once said “Test” when he could

October 6, 2017 Australia

Will Peter Siddle play in the Ashes?

2 minute read We’re having one of those bizarre moments of doubt. Do cricketers play in the Ashes? It sounds wrong to say they ‘play the Ashes’ but ‘play in the Ashes’ suddenly sounds like the person’s a gleeful pyromaniac dancing in the aftermath of their latest deed. We’ve started a new feature

Only one phrase can describe this day's cricket: it's astounding.

Time will tell. Indeed, I am shivering with antici…pation.

Three spinners currently feels a lot, in that three bowlers might actually leave a team overstocked.

Rawalspindi it is, KC. Well done. But standards are surely falling when you to resort to pitch reports from Riff…

Three cheers for England playing three spinners. You should always play three spinners.

Hats off to Harry Brook’s very particular ‘steamrollered pancake pitch’ set of skills

Let’s pick the All-Time Greatest Middle-Aged XI

Less than the sum of their parts: Six Test batting partnerships that invariably disappointed

Five Graham Thorpe innings that were equal parts silly, brilliant and vital

Show me the money. Inattention and monetisation in Major League Cricket, The Hundred and Test cricket