< 1 minute read British readers will never have seen this. We saw it rather a lot when we were in Bangalore earlier in the year. It’s quite something. Watch it three times and see whether the tune’s stuck in your head.
Continue reading< 1 minute read There’s all sorts of odd cricket equipment around these days, but we’ve no idea why someone would attach a handle to their own underwear to better enable them to self-wedgie. [God knows what this image was. It must have been hilarious though.]
Continue reading< 1 minute read We’re certainly intending to do a proper Muralitharan retirement post – possibly after his last match – but for now, we can’t be bothered. These are the things that immediately came to mind when we heard he was retiring: Muttiah Muralitharan might just surpass Steve Harmison in our estimation as
Continue reading< 1 minute read Can we have some reader feedback? We’ve added a Test Match Sofa player in the right sidebar so that you can listen to Test Match Sofa while you’re on this site. When there isn’t a match, it plays highlights. One, will you use it? Two, does it affect the loading
Continue reading< 1 minute read Shaun Tait is unquestionably a fast bowler – probably the fastest around at the moment. You can tell because batsmen regularly ‘make room’ to play him – they’re getting their bodies out of the way, not freeing their arms. A Shaun Tait delivery was clocked at 100mph at Lord’s in
Continue reading< 1 minute read When we suggested that Australia’s current one-day team wasn’t its strongest, people took this as making excuses on their behalf. We’re not a naysayer when it comes to this England one-day side. We’re just pleading for perspective. For example, when Shaun Tait didn’t play, England lost 12 wickets in two
Continue reading< 1 minute read To some people, Mani is Ehsan Mani, former president of the ICC and a man who once mistakenly shook hands with special correspondent Dad. To us and to many of our generation, Mani is ex-Stone Roses bassist, Gary Mounfield, now with Primal Scream and also working on Peter Hook’s hilariously-named
Continue reading< 1 minute read Frank’s been on. He’s made a thing: “It has been shortlisted in a business competition run by Barclays. If I beat the other two finalists in a public vote, I win 50 grand to help get the things on the market. I’ve had some great support from Goochie, two Floweries
Continue reading< 1 minute read Thanks to Bradders for pointing us towards this: But also not thanks. Pretending things are guns is never cool. Somebody will have told him to do it, but that doesn’t matter. Rob could have gone for bat-as-guitar or bat-as-snooker-cue even. Both would have been better than bat-as-gun. There’s the sunglasses
Continue reading< 1 minute read Shit! They’re playing County Championship matches. How did that happen? We’d checked the fixture lists and had therefore been slacking off because it’s only the Twenty20 Cup and we can’t really be arsed with that until they’ve finished the crappy group stages. But knock our chicken and chorizo sandwich to
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