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May 29, 2008 England / Sri Lanka

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

May 28, 2008 Match report

Wolverhampton Cricket Club v Leamington Cricket Club match report

2 minute readMatt B writes: I was up in Wolverhampton visiting my Dad. By late afternoon the relentless excitability of my seven year-old Chinese step-sister, the listlessness caused by a new lurgy and the lure of a still sweltering sunny day drove to me escape the house for a little bit of

May 27, 2008 Associates

Mahaboob Alam takes ten wickets in a one-day match

< 1 minute readMahaboob Alam plays for Nepal. He took 10-12 from 7.5 overs against Mozambique. Mozambique made 19, so Mahaboob Alam was quite expensive. Still, on balance, well bowled Mahaboob Alam.

May 27, 2008 England / New Zealand

Andrew Strauss repairs his stats

2 minute readFortunate to be given the opportunity to do so, Andrew Strauss saved his Test career with a whopping 177 in the third and final Test of the tour of New Zealand. Since then, he’s hit 63, 60 and now 106 and suddenly there doesn’t seem to be much of a

May 26, 2008 England / New Zealand

Monty Panesar at Old Trafford

2 minute readIt’s been three years since we last went to the Old Trafford Test and didn’t see Monty Panesar take five wickets. Actually, that’s not strictly true. We went to two days of last year’s West Indies Test and on one of the days he only took four wickets. In 2006

May 26, 2008 Australia / West Indies

Andrew Symonds, a terrible batsman, hits some very lucky runs

< 1 minute readIn January we said that Andrew Symonds had disproved our feeling that he wasn’t the man you wanted at the crease if you’d lost early wickets and everyone rounded on us for not thinking he was the mutt’s nuts even sooner. So we’re a bit uncertain what to say about

May 24, 2008 County cricket

Joe Denly hits a fourth innings hundred

< 1 minute readWhile largely overshadowed by Rob Key‘s silky 26, Joe Denly‘s 149 was still a weighty contribution towards a Kent total of 250. Kent lost, but you can’t really blame No Pants for that. Has anyone got any information on that nickname’s origins yet? If you do know and it’s a

May 24, 2008 England / New Zealand

Daniel Flynn’s lost tooth

< 1 minute readJacob Oram and the short ball: You pair are going to be great friends. It may have been Daniel Flynn’s tooth that James Anderson removed with a bouncer, but Jacob Oram looked the more uncomfortable against short-pitched bowling. Of course Flynn’s bloodied mélange of flesh and teeth went way beyond

May 23, 2008 New Zealand

James Marshall gets asked a stupid question

< 1 minute read“So, are you any relation to Hamish Marshall?” Writing in his Cricinfo diary, Ross Taylor says someone asked James Marshall that. James and Hamish are identical twins, if you didn’t know. This was either the most admirably, pig-headedly stupid and obvious joke of all time or it was asked by

May 22, 2008 England / New Zealand

The Old Trafford pitch

< 1 minute readSportsfreak are running a cricket tipping competition about the England v New Zealand series. We are currently equal second out of 12. For the last Test we used reasoning for precisely one of the questions and got it right. Michael Vaughan has scored bucketloads of runs at Lord’s, so we