2 minute readYou’d think you’d be more convinced about a player after he’d hit 80 off 62 balls in a one-day match. At worst, you’d think you’d feel the same about him. Yet somehow Suresh Raina actually managed to erode our confidence in him. This despite the fact that we said India
Continue reading< 1 minute readAll Indians and Australians believe that everyone in England thinks the same thing. (Do you see what we did with that sentence?) We’d just like to refute this. If you see an article in the Telegraph that says England are going to dominate world cricket forever, it is important to
Continue reading2 minute readWe’ve spent the day badmouthing Jade Dernbach and we’ve previously written that his ‘variations’ often blind people to his deficiencies, but despite both of those things, we still don’t think England should drop him. Why? He’s shit No, he isn’t. Calm down. Jade may have looked pretty shit while bowling
Continue reading< 1 minute readFor all their progress and despite all their resources, England still can’t compete in one-day cricket in India. We’ve thought of three things that would help their cause. 1. Hire a scientist It’s staggering to think that England don’t have a scientist on their staff. We’re not talking about nutrionists
Continue reading< 1 minute readKieron Pollard made a golden duck today as West Indies were rolled for 61 by Bangladesh. Pollard’s failure isn’t all that surprising, because his record is actually pretty piss-poor. Kieron Pollard’s record Pollard is best-known for his clumping hitting, yet he averages 21.67 in one-day internationals and 12.66 in Twenty20
Continue reading< 1 minute readRob Key says that even Suresh Raina must wonder how he gets picked ahead of Virat Kohli. It’s not just because we mindlessly go along with everything Rob says like a mindless yes-man that we agree with him on this occasion. There’s been a change in Kohli. He’s always looked
Continue reading< 1 minute readUmesh Yadav just bowled a 90mph delivery. By this time next year, he should have reined that in and India can expect to have another solid medium-pacer available to them. Yadav has much to learn. If he thinks he should be striving for the kind of delivery that he bowled
Continue reading< 1 minute readHow’s that for a rallying cry? England are playing their least-favoured format in their least-favoured conditions. This series against India will show them at their very worst and as such, it will tell us a hell of a lot. England’s worst is not yet ‘middling’. They should aspire to middling
Continue reading< 1 minute readIt’s just a one-day series, but as it happens England’s home win and India’s World Cup win have made this quite an appealing prospect. Plus it’s only five matches, not seven matches like it will be next winter. What’s that, you say? Seven one-day matches next winter? You don’t mean
Continue reading< 1 minute readWhen a losing team plays another losing team, one of them has to lose. No-one wins. This is good though. It’s like life. Life is an ongoing damage limitation exercise that is ultimately doomed to failure. You try your best, you slave away, you constantly improve yourself and the best
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