< 1 minute readThose of you who’ve only read this website for a couple of years or so might not be aware that this ever happens. Mostly we try and avoid it because people only end up giving us stick. Our point has been made over at the Wisden Cricketer, because for some
Continue reading< 1 minute readIt’s not really a point. In fact, several of the commenters on our latest Cricinfo piece say it just sort of tails off. It’s a fictional Pakistan team meeting, if that makes you more or less likely to click through and have a read.
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe just thought we’d warn you all about this fact, because chances are you lost interest in the Twenty20 Cup about a month ago. After 10,000 mostly pointless matches, we’ve managed to trim 18 teams down to eight. However, there are four matches today and tomorrow we will be down
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe don’t get it. It was only Pragyan Ojha. What’s the big deal? If we’d taken 800 Test wickets, we wouldn’t be jumping up and down about getting Pragyan Ojha out. We’d have been more worked up about dismissing better batsmen, like Ian Salisbury or Chris Lewis.
Continue reading< 1 minute readIf you actually enjoy cricket, you can’t help but have enjoyed watching Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer and Umar Gul bowl yesterday. It was better than spoon meat and carbonated dipping jam. That they bowled Australia out for 88 was something of a bonus. Quite simply, this was cricket LIKE IT’S
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe’ve been having a discussion with someone about whether this is funny or not. If you have to explain a joke, it generally isn’t funny. But surely not in this instance. Surely. Bellingham and Smith is a cricket bat manufacturer. We’re of the belief that this is a new business
Continue reading< 1 minute readThen a chronic inability to spell people’s first names shouldn’t hold you back: “England cricketers Andrew Strauss, Alistair Cook and Eion Morgan put the Jaguar XJ through its paces” At least they got ‘Andrew’ right. One out of three isn’t too bad and the surnames are all spot-on. Good work.
Continue reading3 minute readGed Ladd writes: I had been invited to a 30th anniversary reunion at school for this day. The thought of a formal school reunion horrified me, so I arranged to be at cricket during the day and at the theatre in the evening, to ensure my unavailability. I had met
Continue reading< 1 minute readUsing a Venn diagram!
Continue reading< 1 minute readWell it isn’t a bowling attack, is it? India have got a medium-pacer called Abhimanyu Mithun opening the bowling against Sri Lanka. We hadn’t even heard of him until this morning. Muralitharan said this week that Harbhajan Singh was the only person who could challenge his Test wickets record. At
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