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November 30, 2007 India / Pakistan

Wasim Jaffer gets a big hundred

< 1 minute readRahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar were fairly predictable thorns in Sohail Tanvir’s side, but Wasim Jaffer was a thorn the size of a pickaxe handle. Jaffer actually made his Test debut back in 2000, when he was looked on as the latest great batsman from Mumbai, the town that brought

November 30, 2007 India / Pakistan

Sohail Tanvir is Pakistan’s ‘go to’ bowler

< 1 minute readBecause if you go to anyone else, you have to enter an isolation unit and get decontaminated afterwards. We don’t know for definite, but we imagine that Sohail Tanvir’s in a bad mood. Sohail’s one quarter of a four-man attack and one of the other quarters, Shoaib Akhtar, has got

November 29, 2007 India / Regulars

Sourav Ganguly looking really quite pissed off

< 1 minute readWhile wearing a stupid hat. [This post used to contain a picture of Sourav wearing an East 17 hat while signing autographs at this point. Annoyingly, we can’t find it now.] No joke. We just really like this picture. Don’t make eye contact, Sourav. Write something dismissive as well. That’ll

November 29, 2007 Extras / Pakistan

Open verdict on Bob Woolmer’s death

< 1 minute readYou could have guessed, couldn’t you? Bob Woolmer’s death has veered from sad to sickening and back to merely sad again. It was to be expected that no real conclusions would be drawn. We’re going to put most weight by the part where they say that there was ‘insufficient evidence

November 28, 2007 Regulars

No Holds Barred Cricket

< 1 minute readNo Holds Barred Cricket is a form rarely played these days. It was introduced in the mid-Nineties as a means of injecting a little bit more excitement into the one-day game. Rather frighteningly and contradictorily, the rules are ‘there are no rules’. No Holds Barred Cricket featured large amounts of

November 27, 2007 South Africa

Dale Steyn’s bowling speed

2 minute readWe remember Dale Steyn’s Test debut. For his first wicket, he arced a yorker into Marcus Trescothick‘s middle stump. Not bad. While he touched 90mph during that Test, it was rare and we sort of put him to the back of our mind in our mental draw marked ‘South African

November 26, 2007 England

Matthew Hoggard will be in the Test team then

< 1 minute readIf 240 Test wickets weren’t enough, there’s the fact that Stephen Harmison and James Anderson are both a bit injured to help Hoggy along. And if his 6-57 against India at Nagpur last year – a herculean bowling performance hewn from pure nous – wasn’t proof that he could bowl

November 26, 2007 India / Pakistan

India get home

< 1 minute readIt may have got to 93-3 chasing 200, but with Sachin Tendulkar there, it never really felt in doubt. The man’s a pro. Shoaib Akhtar did his best, taking 4-58, but this was the right result. If India’s tailenders had managed to stick around for even a moment in their

November 24, 2007 India / Pakistan

Misbah-ul-Haq ready and positioned

< 1 minute readWell, here we are again. The first Test between India and Pakistan is still poised, it could still go either way and again so much depends on Misbah-ul-Haq, who’s one of the not out batsmen. Man of the match awards hardly ever take account of context. You’ve got one batsman

November 24, 2007 Australia

Darren Lehmann knows how to say goodbye

< 1 minute readWe said that Darren Lehmann’s final match would be worth watching. Earlier this week, in his final one-day game, Lehmann played the lead role in a record run-chase in Australian domestic one-day cricket. He hit 126 not out off 104 balls as South Australia overhauled Western Australia’s 305. We could