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February 1, 2017 England / India

MS Dhoni is officially capable of scoring a fifty in a T20 international

< 1 minute readAh, bless. He’d made a few in club cricket, but this was MS Dhoni’s first fifty in T20 internationals. Hopefully this is a first step towards a successful career on the big stage. Speaking after the game, Dhoni may or may not have said: “This was my first fifty in

January 31, 2017 West Indies

Why Andre Russell was banned

2 minute readIf you didn’t know it already, “it’s not my fault, I asked someone else to do it for me” is not a legitimate defence for failing to tell dope testers where you’re going to be. Andre Russell has therefore been handed a one-year ban. If that sounds harsh, consider that

January 31, 2017 County cricket

Mop-up of the long weekend – SHIV!

2 minute readWe’ve been away. We’re not really up to speed. Thanks to Roscoe H Spellgood, we know that speed equals distance over time, so we suppose that we’ll just sit around for a while and hope that we recover the ground. Doubtless you can help us out by providing a few

January 26, 2017 Match report

England v Pakistan at Old Trafford – match report

2 minute readWe went to the second Test between England and Pakistan. It was one of your ‘on and off’ type days where the line between raining and not raining becomes blurred. Having greatly enjoyed the timeless rope dragging technique at Bristol earlier in the summer, we were interested to see whether

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