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< 1 minute readOur latest Cricinfo piece has been a huge hit. Here’s what the critics are saying about it. “Assume someone eats 10 apples per day and wants to reduce the number of apples he eats per day. He decides to counts two apples as one(or one as half) and claims that

< 1 minute readWe appear to have been struck down by lack-of-altitude sickness or summat, so here’s a perfunctory ticking-the-boxes, phoning-it-in update linking to something we wrote for someone else. Aggression and aggressive batting – we covered it here on King Cricket fairly comprehensively, but yet still felt moved to write something for

< 1 minute readWe come back from a week away and it’s all kicking off. Cricinfo’s changed so that you can’t tell what’s going on in the world; Nick Knight’s photographing Victoria’s Secret models (“Should be an innovative, eye-catching shot suitable for an ultra-glossy magazine cover… Is an innovative, eye-catching shot suitable for

2 minute readStats. Stats! #Stats But not weird, complicated stats. Big, bold, lumpen stats. They probably won’t change your thinking, but they’ll allow you to put a value to your opinions so that you can make them sound more credible and scientific. This article stems from a series of predictions we made

3 minute readFive years ago, we picked out five batsmen, four all-rounders and five bowlers who we thought would be the best over the next five-year period. Let’s have a look at how wrong we were. Batsmen Here’s who we picked. Let’s look at their records at the point at which we

< 1 minute readThere’s definitely an opening for an opportunistic side to play a negative, attritional brand of cricket during this World Cup. That approach is so rare, the opposition won’t know what has limply and boringly hit them. More about this in the form of a satirical news report over at Cricinfo.