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March 31, 2017 Extras

I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – the ‘is Tim Bresnan a bit of a bellend?’ edition

< 1 minute readA semi-regular feature in which we ask Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. Is Tim Bresnan a bit of a bellend? Never particularly struck us as one. Why? Saw him interviewed on the news wearing shades and a

March 30, 2017 Extras

Cricket recipe: Ged Ladd’s “Home Of Cricket” Glazed Drunken Prawns

2 minute readKing Cricket was one of my guests the first time I cooked and served this dish. Although he praised the dish, KC also described the glaze as “less of a glaze, more of a gelatinous gloop”. Well I can assure you, King Cricket, my original attempt at Throdkin was gloopy,

March 29, 2017 County cricket / Extras

Free-to-air cricket debate is short-sighted in the internet age

2 minute readThere’s been a few headlines about the possibility of some free-to-air cricket off the back of the ECB’s proposed new T20 league. People get excited about this sort of thing, but the whole point of free-to-air is that it opens up a larger market, yet this is a form of

March 28, 2017 India

Virat Kohli is basically livid about beating Australia

2 minute readVirat Kohli must be the dictionary definition of hard-to-please, for no-one on earth is an enraged by their own success as he is. When Kohli makes a hundred, he’s angry. When his team wins a series over Australia – even though he’s not actually playing – he’s positively enraged. We’ve

March 27, 2017 Australia / India

The India v Australia sitcom

< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images This series has finally bucked its ideas up. We’re not sure at precisely what moment things turned – possibly when Steve Smith played on – but at some point somebody pressed the lever on the View-Master, the slide wheel clicked round and the picture changed. The

March 26, 2017 New Zealand / South Africa

Tom Latham can see the future (+ video)

< 1 minute readThat is the only half-decent explanation for this catch. How good!? – Tom Latham’s in-close-running-one-hander to remove Faf du Plessis #NZvSA ^WN pic.twitter.com/8b2PtYvT6K — BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) March 26, 2017 Far and away our favourite part of this footage is seeing Bruce Oxenford visibly embarking upon a gasp towards the end.

March 25, 2017 Australia / India

Steve Smith woefully out of form in the nets

< 1 minute readThat’s what we’ve heard. We’ve heard that Steve Smith can’t find the middle of the bat when he’s batting in the nets. Smith may or may not have commented: “I’ve been hitting it really well out in the middle, so I don’t think I’m out of form. If I can

March 24, 2017 Australia / India

David Warner is totally bossing net cricket

< 1 minute readDavid Warner says: “I couldn’t be hitting the ball any better but it’s just that the runs aren’t coming for me at the moment.” In this week’s Cricket Badger, we point out that this runs counter to Temba Bavuma’s matter-of-fact observation that, “you can’t be playing well and not scoring

March 23, 2017 County cricket

Everyone’s going mental about Hampshire’s Mason Crane

< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images Despite his name, Mason Crane is not some kind of specialist stoneworking construction vehicle. No, HE IS A DESTRUCTION… person. Crane is a 20-year-old leg-spinner who boasts the customary English leg-spinner’s first-class bowling average of 39. Things have changed over the winter though and from now

March 22, 2017 Australia

Steve Smith’s shonky technique keeps him hiding in plain sight

2 minute readThe notion of a ‘best batsman in the world’ is stupid. You rate them based on what’s already happened and it counts for nothing the next time they’re pitched into competitive cricket. Cricket is not a prolonged personal odyssey, it’s a series of matches between teams. A high ranking gives

...which got me thinking...can I muster a nominally determinative timber loving England XI? Barry Wood Harry Charlwood Andrew Greenwood Paul…

Ah, I got a pretty speedy reply to my shout-out. John-Boy opines...or should I say, oh pines: "I loved the…

Intriguing piece, KC, but I think we need some expert opinion here. My mate, John-Boy, used to run the Timber…

Lots of weird but broadly applicable measures in there and then also... "Head coach Gautam Gambhir's personal manager will not…

Looks like he’s decided to take them to the no girls allowed club. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/no-wags-family-on-tour-bcci-disciplines-india-after-disastrous-australia-series/ar-BB1rppVU

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