< 1 minute readShit! What are you supposed to do? This is unprecedented. Don’t know about you, but we celebrated by having quite a bad hangover and having to have an early night. Yay! Even more strangely, England were the best team in the tournament. The best team doesn’t necessarily win a Twenty20
Continue reading< 1 minute readWalking through south Manchester last night, we felt very aware of the fact that this World Twenty20 final isn’t particularly registering with the nation. There are England flags on cars and houses, but they’re for the other England World Cup bid. It’s understandable really. This is the more frequent of
Continue reading2 minute readWhat an absurd luxury to have Mike Hussey coming in to bat at seven in any form of the game. Yesterday, the man who people still tend to think of as a rather dour opening bat once again finished a game for Australia after six men had gone in ahead
Continue reading< 1 minute readIt’s possible there may have been some adrenaline involved in that shot.
Continue reading< 1 minute readIt’s a scary thought, but England have only got one more chance to resume normal service. They’re in the final of the World Twenty20, so it’s all-or-nothing. Seasoned England watchers know their side has the ability to take this opportunity to get back to normal underperformance, but set against that
Continue reading< 1 minute readKP goes out to hit catches to children for the Karbonn Kamal Catch between innings. “Have fun,” says Cameron White. “Whatever,” says KP and they fight for exactly two minutes. Then they stop. KP hits the catches, including an easy one for a girl. He looks at Cameron White and
Continue reading2 minute readSam writes: Grey skies greeted us on Sunday morning as we prepared to head to Croydon for the first 40 over match of the English domestic season. The day almost got off to a disastrous start. My girlfriend put some potatoes on to boil and told me that in ten
Continue reading< 1 minute readEngland haven’t had a bowler who commentators can patronisingly refer to as a ‘yeoman’ since Matthew Hoggard got the boot. Tim Bresnan’s from Yorkshire and bowls a bit of swing. Maybe he can step in and be a doughty northern caricature so that the English cricket establishment can reinforce their
Continue reading< 1 minute readNot enough of them anyway. You have to use at least five bowlers in Twenty20. India have been using Harbhajan Singh (great); Zaheer Khan (really good, but occasionally vulnerable in Twenty20); and Ashish Nehra (solid but unspectacular). To make up their remaining overs, they use Yusuf Pathan, who is clearly
Continue reading< 1 minute readEngland’s win over South Africa is proof of the EXTRAORDINARY MOMENTUM that they have gained by losing a game, having one rained off and then winning two. England are pretty much unstoppable now. That’s not to say that they’ll be tearing along down the right path, necessarily. Momentum’s great, but
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