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January 25, 2017 County cricket

Lancashire’s Tom Smith succumbs to chronic back knack

< 1 minute readIf we weren’t actually first off the mark in lauding Tom Smith, we were there or thereabouts. He elicited that laudery by taking 3-29 on the first day of the 2006 season. Fortunately for us, Smith actually made his debut a year before, so we’re still not yet at the

January 24, 2017 West Indies

Andre Russell might actually find out whether he’s going to be banned from cricket next week

2 minute readIf you’ve a decent memory, you might remember that Andre Russell had a possible two-year ban from cricket hanging over him after being unavailable for three doping tests during a 12-month period back in 2015. ‘Oh yeah,’ you may think. ‘What happened with that in the end?’ Well, the answer

January 23, 2017 England / India

England will pray for nip or tail at the Champions Trophy

2 minute readThe early stages of England’s one-day cricket revolution saw the team transform from one that scored about 250 on average to one that score about 250 on average. The difference was in the range. They went from making 240-260 and losing every game to making 100-400 and winning half the

January 20, 2017 Extras

EXCLUSIVE! Rob Key’s position on snow revealed!

< 1 minute readAnd by ‘exclusive’ we mean that we reported information that was already publicly available for a third party before pointing you towards it from here. This week’s Twitter round-up has just gone up on Cricinfo. Critics are calling it ‘recently published and currently without comments’. Needless to say, we’ve led

January 19, 2017 England / India

Why waste your best bowler in the final over?

< 1 minute readThe idea that England might try and bounce out Virat Kohli proved as wide of the mark as a Devon Malcolm loosener. They decided to pepper him with half-volleys instead. And it worked. They adopted a similar method against Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni, occasionally mixing things up with a

January 18, 2017 South Africa

AB de Villiers slowly coming to terms with Test retirement

< 1 minute readVery slowly. He’s not yet at a point where he’ll accept that his final Test was in January last year. Earlier this week, de Villiers made himself unavailable for selection for the upcoming Test series in New Zealand in March. Today he ruled himself out of the Test series against

January 14, 2017 Bangladesh

Shakib al Hasan’s Test double hundred and its perfect ending

< 1 minute readSometimes we forget that you haven’t all been reading this website since day dot. It’s been over a decade since we tipped Shakib al Hasan for greatness so chances are a great many of you won’t know what a big deal it is that he made a Test double hundred

January 12, 2017 Australia

Video: Mitchell Johnson playing tennis right-handed

< 1 minute readWell, looks like we’ve got to the bottom of that whole ‘bowl to the left, bowl to the right’ thing. Turns out Mitchell Johnson is right-handed. Here’s some expert coaching advice, Mitch: bowl with your other hand. Better late than never with these kinds of tips. You may already have

January 11, 2017 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Don Bradman Cricket 17 is the best cricket action game there’s ever been (+ video)

2 minute readWe’ll freely admit that we haven’t actually played Don Bradman Cricket 17 yet, but our keen deduction skills have allowed us to reach the conclusion that is the best ever cricket action game anyway. Our reasoning, in short: Don Bradman Cricket 14 was the best cricket action game at the

January 10, 2017 England

Has Alastair Cook stood down as England captain yet?

< 1 minute readOnly we’ll have to get something up about it pretty darn sharpish if he does. Our readers will doubtless have much to say about such a development. Maybe we could publish some sort of ‘holding post’ instead, floating the possibility that Cook might stand down without actually stating that this