India / Sri Lanka

Ajantha Mendis sorts everything out

< 1 minute readSanath Jayasuriya might have pummelled a trademark hundred, but Ajantha Mendis won Sri Lanka the Asia Cup. If you want to see some impressive bowling figures, read on: 6-13 off eight overs. Virender Sehwag had hit a 26-ball fifty when Mendis came on to bowl, so the young spinner basically

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Sri Lanka

The carrom ball

< 1 minute readAjantha Mendis’s ‘carrom ball’ does look to be pretty much a new delivery. Inventing a new delivery is a pretty brash thing to do. It’s almost like discovering a new colour or introducing a new letter into the alphabet. We should have all the deliveries already – cricket’s been around

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South Africa

A bit of TWC

< 1 minute readThat’s ‘The Wisden Cricketer’ to you. We won’t link to every piece of ours that appears on their blog, but we thought that today’s was ‘all right’ – and that’s a real high water mark for us. It’s more about Neil McKenzie. We don’t feel like everyone really got into

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Pakistan

For this forfeit, you get a drawn Test

< 1 minute readUmpires accuse Pakistan of ball-tampering. Pakistan refuse to play in protest. After an investigation, Pakistan are found not guilty of ball tampering, but Inzy is banned for keeping his side off the field, so they’re saying that while he was right, he was also wrong. Now the match is being

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County cricket

The Durham bowling attack

2 minute readWe’ve come up with an ingenious plan that will make England’s bowling attack the envy of the world: tell each of the bowlers that he’s playing for Durham. Seriously. Tell someone – anyone – that they’re playing for Durham and they’ll take wickets. The presenters of Loose Women could take

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