< 1 minute read Six wickets down in their second innings and Nottinghamshire still had fewer runs than Yorkshire. Steven Mullaney then made 83 and Chris Read 86. The latter was also the score which Yorkshire would then make for the loss of all ten wickets. Nottinghamshire won by 58 runs. We met Steven
Continue reading< 1 minute read Lasith Malinga’s knee injury is just about bad enough that he can’t play Tests and just about good enough that he can play one-day internationals and the IPL. Sri Lanka feel that this financially lucrative degree of pain could be sorted with some rehabilitative work back home and has therefore
Continue reading< 1 minute read Rich Pyrah, first-class bowling average of 48, goes for a run-a-ball against the champions but picks up a wicket every other over. This is one of those where the scorecard doesn’t really tell you the story. Having read some match reports, they don’t particularly tell us the story either, so
Continue reading< 1 minute read Take a look at these two people: In the West, having tanned skin is a sign of wealth. In India, having pale skin is a sign of wealth. Many Westerners use sun cream so they can be in the sun for longer or smear themselves in fake tan. Many Indians
Continue reading2 minute read Ged writes: The weather is glorious and the people are extremely friendly. They have named a bazaar after my pseudonym – Lad Bazaar is the place in Hyderabad for bangles and boy is it sparkly. Our guide reluctantly takes us to the Lal Bahadur stadium, explaining that the big matches
Continue reading< 1 minute read If you’re going to get thrashed, do the job properly. Do it Somerset style. Somerset lost to Warwickshire by an innings and 382 runs. It was an extremely impressive performance from Somerset. Extremely impressive. Any team can concede 642 and any team can then get bowled out for 210, but
Continue reading< 1 minute read This is the best article we’ve ever written in which a girl faints at the thought of seeing Lancashire chief executive, Jim Cumbes. It is also the best article we’ve written in which Beyoncé tries to associate herself with Rob Key in order to further her career. Read dreaming in
Continue reading< 1 minute read As a colossal nerd whose interests include cricket and the internet, we’re interested to know what you think about the newly launched The Cricketer website. It’s the bastard offspring of The Wisden Cricketer and Test Match Extra. The latter you might not have heard of because it looked pretty hideous
Continue reading< 1 minute read The West Indies have dropped Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul for the first two of five one-day internationals against Pakistan. Whether this is actually a strong move, we don’t yet know. It depends whether any of them return. The Windies’ coach, Ottis Gibson, has had fairly transparent opinions
Continue reading< 1 minute read What is Bill Gates best known for? If you answered ‘being the happiest man in the world’ then have 100 points and go and sit with Tamim Iqbal. Speaking about his Lord’s hundred after he was named one of Wisden’s Cricketers of the Year, Tamim said: “I was the happiest
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