Simon Jones is fit and firing

< 1 minute readYou’ve got to write these updates when you’ve the chance. We’re a bit worried because we wrote this on Sunday. 24 hours is an eternity when you’re talking about the fitness of Simon Jones. We’ll plough on regardless though. Thus far in the County Championship, Simon Jones has taken 5-92,

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Ricky Ponting has the runs

< 1 minute readHe has 10,000 of them in Tests. That’s the way you phrase it, isn’t it? You ‘have’ runs. We’ve already written one update about Ricky Ponting where we referred to ‘rather spectacular motions‘. That was a rather feeble ‘rushed toilet visit’ joke too. If you’re worried that the site’s becoming

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Shaun Marsh in the IPL

< 1 minute readShaun Marsh has hit five fifties and a hundred in the IPL. He’s streets ahead of anyone else. He’s hit the most runs and he’s averaging 74.12. He’s adding to Kings XI Punjab‘s rich history of great batsmen. The best thing about Shaun Marsh is the way he’s scored his

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Bidding for Test matches

< 1 minute readThis week’s Old Trafford Test was the last there until at least 2012. Putting aside our irritation that we can’t see Test cricket at our local ground, we can see that it’s increasingly shabby and that Lancashire have been complacent about their ‘right’ to hold Tests. Only that’s not necessarily

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