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January 15, 2015 Match report

Yorkshire v Middlesex – Scarborough match report

2 minute readBananarama Monkey-Face writes: I’m originally from Pickering, so I always get very excited when I come up to North Yorkshire with Mum, Dad and brother Hippity. All the more exciting this time, because Mum and Dad had arranged, as part of their trip, to go to t’cricket at Scarborough for

January 14, 2015 England

Ian Bell making a half-decent fist of things

< 1 minute readIan Bell made 187 off 145 balls against the Prime Minister’s XI in England’s latest warm-up match. Okay, so it’s not exactly the biggest match ever – Chris Rogers bowled two overs – but what’s more reassuring, making 187 off 145 balls or making 26 off 38? This constitutes further

January 13, 2015 Extras

The best official cricket songs in the world… ever!

< 1 minute readWe know that you’re all looking forward to hearing the official World Cup song, even if it’s inevitable that it will fall some way short of this masterpiece. We’ve looked back on some of the other great official cricket songs from down the years for All Out Cricket. They include

January 11, 2015 England

Ian Bell is not Alastair Cook

4 minute readThere are a lot of optimists in the world and the problem with positive people is that they assume that positivity itself is some sort of positive. It’s all well and good swanning about thinking everything will work out, but really you’re just setting yourself up for disappointment and failure.

January 9, 2015 Australia / India

Declarations unforeseen on paper

2 minute readAustralia will get to declare again. Maybe this is presumptuous on our part. Maybe they were batting for a declaration but have now got a taste for scoring at ten an over and will carry on tomorrow. It seems unlikely though. If there’s one thing Australia like more than scoring

January 7, 2015 Extras / Pakistan

You’re probably wondering why we haven’t written about Inzamam-ul-Haq this week

< 1 minute readThe answer is because Pakistan aren’t playing. Also, he retired seven years ago. Fortunately, our Kings of Cricket feature over at All Out Cricket helps us overcome these minor hurdles as we’re allowed to write about pretty much anyone we like. Last week, we chose Inzy for his ‘souplesse’ as

January 6, 2015 India

Might and will in Twenty20 and Tests

3 minute readOur friend who was once known as Uncle Jrod has written a piece for Cricinfo about the impact of the IPL on India’s Test performances. We can’t work out whether he’s been done up by the site’s subeditors or whether the headline and teaser are part of the general mischievousness

January 6, 2015 New Zealand

Kane Williamson wins the combativity prize

2 minute readIt’s a double-post day today. Maybe we’re all backed-up after slacking off over Christmas. A few words about New Zealand first and then this afternoon we’ll turn to Australia v India, so hold your commenting horses if that’s what you want to talk about. In cycling, there’s a thing called

January 5, 2015 Extras

How to captain an international cricket team

< 1 minute readIn light of the Conjoined Lord Megachiefs of Gold both being captains of their respective nations, here’s a thing about captaincy which we’d actually forgotten we’d written. For international captaincy, we’d also add another piece of advice to that article: Do exactly what Shane Warne says (but be innovative). Doing

January 4, 2015 Sri Lanka

Kumar Sangakkara and the magic numbers

< 1 minute readRemember The Magic Numbers? Are they still going? Wikipedia says they are. Chart positions say they aren’t really. But this post isn’t about The Magic Numbers. It’s about Kumar Sangakkara’s magic numbers. Scorecards never tell you the full story, but when a batsman’s made 203 out of 356 in response

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