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January 29, 2011 Australia / England

10 Ashes Tests in a row

2 minute readSweet fucking Christ, does everyone in the world of cricket suffer from all three major forms of retardation? This is quite literally the worst idea of all time. Back-to-back Ashes series. Ten England v Australia Tests in a row. Does no-one who has control over anything have even the most

January 27, 2011 India

Eden Gardens World Cup balls-up

< 1 minute readEngland were due to play India at Eden Gardens during the World Cup. We were looking forward to it as much as we looked forward to our night on the Belgian beer the other week. Eden Gardens is massive. World Cup matches featuring India that take place in India are

January 26, 2011 Regulars

Batting stance | batting lessons

< 1 minute readSpace your feet roughly shoulder width apart. Stand side-on to the bowler on the balls of your feet but evenly balanced, pressing forward with your weight moving counter-crosswise while remaining perfectly still. Bend your knees to the extent that you feel euphoric. Try and project a high-minded yet magnanimous air

January 26, 2011 Regulars

Our reasons for starting a cricket school

< 1 minute readWe’ve just watched the fourth one-day international between Australia and England. England won, but we still haven’t got anything to say. We’re assuming this situation will persist, so to ensure that we can put up a post each day, we’re starting a new section of the site which is called

January 25, 2011 Regulars

Post Ashes graphs

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January 24, 2011 Match report

India v Australia Bangalore Test match report

3 minute readRitesh writes: It was my last day as a Bangalore resident – I was saying goodbye to the city after calling it home for seven years. It was a time for quiet reflection, for spending quality time with friends and eventually for inebriated celebration. Time, in other words, for a

January 23, 2011 England

How to make one-day matches unmissable

2 minute readWe woke up this morning and just lay there. We knew there was cricket on, but we didn’t jump up. We’re getting a new mattress next week and currently it feels like we’re sleeping on a slight incline, constantly in danger of being rolled out of one side of the

January 22, 2011 Australia

Do you want to buy Nathan Hauritz a pint?

2 minute readWe do. The poor bastard. It’s bad enough going through life feeling like everything’s out to get you without repeatedly being confronted with evidence that it is. Hauritz must have offended the Moirae at some point. Maybe, with that face, they’ve mistaken him for a child and feel that he’s

January 21, 2011 Extras

Andrew Hilditch article with sandwiches in it

< 1 minute readWe wrote a wilfully opaque piece about Australia’s chief selector for Cricinfo which doesn’t once mention cricket. We like to do the mass appeal crowd-pleasing stuff. We think it’s quite good though. One of our better ones. We wrote it drunk, which has led to some pretty revolutionary ideas about

January 20, 2011 England

Samit Patel makes a commitment

< 1 minute readIt would seem that Samit Patel is fully committed to maintaining his lardy physique. As Andy Flower said: “He was chosen on the condition that he would improve his physical state to be in consideration for this squad of 15. He hasn’t done that.” Good work, Samit. That’s commitment. Don’t