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April 25, 2008 County cricket / England

Matthew Hoggard does the unthinkable

< 1 minute readMatthew Hoggard smashed someone’s box! That really doesn’t bear thinking about. What are the chances that the delivery was precisely quick enough to smash a box but not quick enough to do any further harm? The chances of that are nil. Thankfully, we haven’t actually seen this. The BBC say

April 25, 2008 India

Deccan Chargers?

< 1 minute readWhich ones are Deccan Chargers? This is the problem we’re having with the IPL. The teams have no real identities. It’s impossible to remember who’s who. Here’s what we can easily remember: We support Kings XI Punjab. Kolkata Knight Riders is Ganguly’s team, because Ganguly is The Prince of Calcutta

April 24, 2008 Match report

Surrey v Lancashire County Championship match report

2 minute readSorry about this morning’s aberration where we actually contributed something to the website. David “Pappus’ Plane” Barry’s here to redress the balance with a match report: This was my first experience of cricket in England: the opening day of the 2008 County Championship. One notable difference from Australia was clear

April 24, 2008 County cricket / England

Why Ravi Bopara shouldn’t be discarded

2 minute readRavi Bopara’s Test tour of Sri Lanka was complete toss, with innings of eight and 34 on his debut preceding a grim duck sandwich, with two golden ducks as the bread and an altogether meatier seven ball duck as filling. On that evidence, some people think they’ve seen the back

April 23, 2008 Match report / Regulars

Kent v Nottinghamshire County Championship match report

2 minute readWith a bonus Kent v Essex in the Friends Provident Trophy match report thrown in ABSOLUTELY FREE. This continues this week’s theme of our not really writing anything. How long can we keep it up? Lemon Bella writes: Myself and Indian Skimmer saw our first matches of the season this

April 22, 2008 Match report

Surrey v Middlesex Friends Provident Trophy match report

2 minute readIf you attend a cricket match this season, please send us a match report. Our submission guidelines are ever-so-straightforward: on no account mention the actual cricket. Miriam opens the season’s reporting: I went to this match after church (yes, how very English of me). Having heard so much about him,

April 21, 2008 County cricket / England

Andrew Strauss murders Surrey

< 1 minute readAndrew Strauss hit 163 off 130 balls for Middlesex against Surrey in the Friends Provident Trophy yesterday. Strauss seems to have remembered what hundreds are and is now getting them in boundaries: 23 fours and four sixes equals 116. This isn’t great news for Rob Key, who even if a

April 21, 2008 New Zealand

Replacing Shane Bond

< 1 minute readYesterday, we suggested that Shane Bond adopt a disguise in order to represent his country. It’s okay, he doesn’t need to. Our scouts have identified four young bowlers who could replace the injury-prone paceman for New Zealand. Ceci has found Ryan Shanebondom: And Andrew Webster, of Spun Out fame, has

April 20, 2008 County cricket / New Zealand

Shane Bond highlights cricket’s self harm

< 1 minute readCricket’s short of fast bowlers these days. New Zealand are short of strike bowlers. The upcoming England v New Zealand series is short of stars. Shane Bond’s a fast strike bowler from New Zealand and is unquestionably one of the stars of international cricket. He’s in England right now, he’s

April 19, 2008 India / New Zealand

Brendon McCullum hits record Twenty20 score in opening match of IPL

2 minute readIf Twenty20, in the form of the IPL, is supposed to be conquering the cricket world, nobody told Ravi Shastri, who was addressing the crowd before the first match between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders. With an audience already whipped into high fervour, Shastri was given the task