< 1 minute readEngland got their tactics right against India – brilliantly so. Admittedly, they stole these tactics off the West Indies who bounced India to defeat earlier in the week, but to be honest England probably carried out the plan even better. Indian batsmen are used to low, slow pitches and one-day
Continue reading< 1 minute readIndia are really bad at Twenty20. Their bowlers lack variety, the batsmen can’t innovate and the domestic structure has too little riding on each game, meaning a side can finish fourth and still win the league. Turns out the IPL isn’t the ultimate Twenty20 school.
Continue reading< 1 minute readLet’s have a quick show of hands. There can’t be many people who don’t like Dwayne Bravo. When West Indies beat India on Friday, Bravo took 4-38 and then spanked 66 off 36 balls and most people will have been pretty pleased that he was the player making the difference.
Continue reading2 minute readSomewhat surprisingly, Hippity the Green Bunny writes: I knew that daddy had planned a trip to Lord’s today with one of his friends from work, Uncail Marcas, so I devised a cunning plan. I’d jump into daddy’s picnic bag while he wasn’t looking and cadge a ride to HQ. I
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe don’t have a great deal to say about England getting beaten. We’ve been writing this website for a few years now and it would do us no good at all to dwell on every underwhelming England loss. So we’re not going to. Not on a Friday. What we did
Continue reading< 1 minute readAs we said earlier in the week, we’re sick to death of receiving press releases at the moment, so we were delighted to receive a brief match report from Simon that in no way promotes anything – least of all Snaptu’s free Cricinfo application for mobile phones. “As I sat
Continue reading< 1 minute readWill Sanath Jayasuriya’s sublime piracy never end? He’s 40 in a few weeks time and yet here he is, playing in the World Twenty20, hitting 81 off 47 balls against the West Indies. It’s early days for international Twenty20, but only five players have scored more runs than Jayasuriya’s 424.
Continue reading< 1 minute readRichie Benaud is going to be on British TV this summer. He is going to be working as Channel 5’s analyst during the Ashes. We’ve heard that Richie’s recent commentating has gone downhill a bit, but this role must surely be perfect for him and it must be perfect for
Continue reading2 minute readYou played cricket last weekend and you liked it. You’re suddenly interested in the sport. You want to know what the professionals are doing. Here’s our cut-out-and-throw-away guide to the clean, simple, straightforward cricketing fixture list this summer. First of all the County Championship started. This is in two divisions,
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe did a piece for Cricinfo. Almost inevitably it features Rob Key. The surprising part is that we had never previously submitted a Rob Key article to them. We have a 100% strike rate when it comes to submitting articles about Rob Key to Cricinfo. They are clearly receptive…
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