< 1 minute read That was odd. Mitchell Johnson hit a valiant fifty in defeat and when he reached the landmark, the crowd erupted. How very, very… … English…
Continue reading< 1 minute read Hayden’s gone down the ‘being prodded’ route in trying to recover from his hamstring injury. That’s what we’ll tell the police when they find us crouched in his garden, jabbing at a doll of his likeness with a needle: we’re aiding his recovery. While we were on holiday, the only
Continue reading< 1 minute read When India only reached 294 (and that only after a lower order rally) we felt they’d been too generous. Australia’s batsmen rarely fail twice in the same match. But lo! At 65-2, India are picking up where they left off in the Aussies’ first innings. It’s all quite intriguing, although
Continue reading< 1 minute read Okay, it’s not as good as the quote that could be construed as a bit gay if you tried really hard and it’s not as succinctly meaningless as this quote, but it’s still a load of nonsense from the mouth of Matthew Hayden and for that reason it gets its
Continue reading2 minute read A while ago we wrote about the surfeit of options India have in their pace bowling ranks. Hopefully things are getting a little clearer. For the record, we’d go with Zaheer Khan, RP Singh and Irfan Pathan, which would perhaps be a little harsh on Sreesanth if it weren’t for
Continue reading< 1 minute read Always pick a spinner. Always. When selectors are so sure about a pitch and feel that they ‘know’ what it’s going to be like, to the extent that they don’t even countenance the possibility that a spinner might be of use, we love to see them proved wrong. Not just
Continue reading2 minute read Virender Sehwag hit a typically outrageous hundred at the weekend against a group of bowlers we’ve never heard of. Some might say that it wasn’t testing enough to warrant a return to the Test side, but Virender Sehwag doesn’t really work like that. Whether Virender Sehwag succeeds is largely down
Continue reading< 1 minute read “I realise I have been blessed by God and feel I have nurtured my talents to the best of my abilities.” No, actually what happened was that you were ‘blessed by God’ and then you threw that blessing back in His face, pausing only to give him a prolonged hand
Continue reading< 1 minute read As many of you have gathered, we were away last week. We did say something somewhere, but we always get lots of ‘why aren’t you covering this?’ emails and comments even if we do make an ‘official’ announcement. Anyway, it seems the big news was STILL Harbhajan Singh calling Andrew
Continue reading2 minute read We want Ian Bell back at number six in the batting order. He’s shown promise and he hasn’t disgraced himself at three, but he’s so good at six and that’s an important spot too. England forget this sometimes. An England batting line-up with Bell at six looks a lot more
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