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March 18, 2010 Extras

Cricket podcasts – why they’re better than real life

< 1 minute readYou only have to talk about cricket, meaning you can’t be exposed as the one-dimensional freak who’s lost touch with the wider world that really are Whenever you say something stupid or your brain comes to a grinding halt, Andy Zaltzman takes those bits out Listen to the latest episode

March 18, 2010 Extras / India

Great IPL commentary from Danny Morrison

< 1 minute readDelhi Daredevils’ Dinesh Karthik had just been stumped by his Mumbai Indians counterpart, Aditya Tare. Harbhajan Singh had bowled a wide, but Tare had gone down the legside and flicked it behind him to hit the stumps. It was a brilliant piece of work, deserving of lofty praise. On commentary,

March 17, 2010 Extras

The Cricinfo Hawkeye tool – cricket information until your eyes bleed

2 minute readDear 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 readSo 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 readTechnically, 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 readEarlier 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 readBrace 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 readConsidering 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 readHere’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 readEven 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

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