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March 17, 2010 Extras

The Cricinfo Hawkeye tool – cricket information until your eyes bleed

2 minute read Dear The Internet, You’ve never asked us if we felt you contained too much information. If you asked us now, we would say ‘yes’. The Cricinfo Hawkeye tool lets us see the path of every ball of every over during the whole of a Test match. We don’t WANT to

March 15, 2010 Extras

England held up by brave tigers

< 1 minute read So says the headline at the BBC. We’re so angry about the inaccuracy, we haven’t even read the article. Put yourself into the story. You’re in the England stagecoach, pootling along the highway, when suddenly you come to a halt. What’s happening? You’re not at the MA Aziz Stadium yet.

March 14, 2010 India

How much is a DLF maximum worth?

< 1 minute read Technically, it’s worth six runs, because it’s how sixes have been branded in the IPL – but that’s not our point. (We’ve made a polite enquiry about sponsoring thick-edged singles down to third man, incidentally. The King Cricket Thick-Edged Single Down to Third Man highlights reel would be a show-stopper

March 13, 2010 England

Steven Finn brings height and speed to the England bowling attack

< 1 minute read Earlier this week, we wrote about England’s back-up bowlers for The Wisden Cricketer, saying they were all a bit samey. The one guy we didn’t mention was our former One To Watch, Steven Finn. Finn actually got picked to make his Test debut against Bangladesh and it’s the fact that

March 12, 2010 India

Live IPL on YouTube – the shittest press release ever

< 1 minute read Brace yourselves for this. It’s a good ‘un. Here is the heading of the press release about how you can watch live IPL matches on YouTube. The asterisk is vital. We’ll come to that in a second. Indian Premier League bowls wicked googly* to the world on YouTube That’s pretty

March 12, 2010 Australia

Matthew Hayden and the Mongoose – together at last

< 1 minute read Considering that Matthew Hayden and the Mongoose cricket bat are two of our favourite things to talk about on this site, you’d think we’d have more to say about this: The heading on the press release says: Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds to ‘let loose the Goose’ We should DEFINITELY

March 11, 2010 India

Watch the IPL live on ITV4

< 1 minute read Here’s a gilt-edged opportunity to get discarded. Giles Clarke can’t give us live cricket on free to air TV; Lalit Modi can. Pretty much ever since the format first appeared, we’ve been saying that having live Twenty20 matches on terrestrial TV at 8pm on a Friday night would help cricket

March 10, 2010 Pakistan

Yousuf and Younus AREN’T banned for life

< 1 minute read Even by Pakistan’s standards this must be some kind of a record. After claiming to be on very firm ground with the punishments they’d doled out, the Pakistan Cricket Board has now said that actually what may have sounded like a life ban was no such thing. Mohammad Yousuf and

March 10, 2010 Pakistan

Life bans for Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan?

< 1 minute read Banning Pakistan cricketers for in-fighting? It’s like firing a computer programmer for being interested in Star Wars. Some things just come with the territory. With Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan banned for life, there’s every chance that one of them might not play in the Test series against Australia this

March 9, 2010 Australia / Extras

Shane Warne learns Indian English

< 1 minute read Depending on the speaker’s mother tongue, there are different forms of Indian English. Each has its own little quirks. The word ‘the’ might disappear from one sentence and appear unexpectedly in another. The words ‘would’ and ‘will’ are often used interchangeably. We’ve no problem with any of this. Our Hindi’s