Regulars

Cricket photography action shots

2 minute read Rob Steen has written a great piece for Cricinfo about the generally sorry state of cricket photography. Basically, a lot of the agency people couldn’t give a toss about cricket and reaction shots are an easy way to get something vaguely usable. Steen mentions the highly regarded Patrick Eagar as

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England

How many times will England become airborne?

< 1 minute read We only ask because they’re hitting the ground running with alarming frequency. After Ben Hilfenhaus looked forward to a sprint landing last week, some of you questioned our assertion that cricketers no longer know what ‘hit the ground running’ means. Well, consider this new evidence. England’s captain’s had a go

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Pakistan

What does Zulqarnain Haider say?

< 1 minute read Zulqarnain Haider literally says: “leaving pakistan cricket because get bad msg fr 1 man fr lose the match in last game.” But what does he ACTUALLY say? Can anyone help us? What does that mean? Pakistan won their last match, so this Facebook message is a bit confusing. Why has

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New Zealand

Chris Martin loses the knack

< 1 minute read Chris Martin has always struck as being a good bowler with a knack for not taking wickets. Opening the bowling in India and dismissing Gambhir, Dravid, Tendulkar, Raina and Dhoni in no time at all, it’s safe to say he no longer has that knack. Or perhaps he now has

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County cricket

Chris Read meets Paul Allott

< 1 minute read Bert sent us these, plus some other pictures and some text. We left out half the pictures and then changed one of the lines to make the whole thing more repetitive. This gives you some insight into our “style”. Chris Read’s day just gets better and better. Here he gets

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Extras

We could be the ECB’s positivity guru

< 1 minute read What? We could. Just because we know that the world’s an unremittingly bleak place where crushing disappointment follows crushing disappointment doesn’t mean we can’t pretend that it isn’t. Just because we can’t bite into a sandwich in the middle of the day without thinking about how the sun’s now going

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England

An interview with an England cricketer

< 1 minute read No-one in particular, it’s just ‘generic England cricketer’. “It’s going to be tough in the Ashes, but we’re all looking forward to it. We’re going to enjoy the tour and we’re going to enjoy the experience. The great thing about this group of players is that we’re all really, really

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