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July 7, 2008 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

July 7, 2008 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

July 6, 2008 County cricket

Late and half-hearted Friends Provident Trophy semi-final reporting

< 1 minute readJoe Denly hit a hundred. Go No Pants. Steve Harmison took four wickets. Durham still lost by a mile. Essex beat Yorkshire. The end.

July 4, 2008 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

July 4, 2008 Match report

England v New Zealand, Bristol one-day international match report

2 minute readMel writes: The scene was set. Both sides had prepared for battle. The protagonists eyed each other with a sense of anticipation – who would triumph today? I talk not of the 22 men in pyjamas, but of a far more absorbing contest. Crowd v Stewards. Lengthy delay at security

July 4, 2008 County cricket / England

The REAL news about England’s selection announcement

< 1 minute readAndrew Flintoff, Simon Jones, Darren Pattinson, Tim Bresnan. How bloody wide of the mark can the mainstream media get? Very. That’s how wide. There’s the mark and… …there… that’s where they are. Wide and perhaps a little bit low as well. The real news is of course His inclusion in

July 3, 2008 County cricket

Martin van Jaarsveld thrives under his captain

< 1 minute readNot literally under his captain. That would be painful, even allowing for Rob Key’s new, racing snake physique. Against Surrey, Martin van Jaarsveld hit two unbeaten hundreds and took 5-33, even though he’d never taken more than two wickets in an innings before. When asked what precipitated this rare spell

July 3, 2008 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

July 2, 2008 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

July 2, 2008 County cricket / England

Who is Jade Dernbach?

< 1 minute readHe is both a cad and a bounder and you should beware his dandy ways. We’d say that Jade was a girl’s name if it were, in fact, a name at all. 24 first-class wickets at 40.62 and somehow he bowled Rob Key first ball. Some facts about Jade Dernbach: