< 1 minute read We asked which player top-scored with 110 not out in the 2007 England v India Oval Test. The answer was Anil Kumble. We didn’t do the names-in-a-carrier-bag draw in the end, because there were too many entries and we didn’t have enough ink. We instead opted for the spreadsheet and
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Win India v England tickets for the Oval Test
< 1 minute read Competition closed. See here for Oval cricket tickets. We hate doing competitions. Sorting through all the entries sucks hours from our life and we always get stressed out that the winners aren’t going to receive their prizes. This is a good one though. You could win a pair of tickets
Continue readingOut of the Ashes salt in the wounds update
< 1 minute read These people didn’t win, either because they were too late or in Ireland. We liked their entries though. We asked people to name a non-Test playing nation and say how they’d get them to the 2015 World Cup. V | Finland Finland should definitely be on the list. As there
Continue readingOut of the Ashes DVD winners 6-10
2 minute read Here are the other winning entries to the Out of the Ashes DVD competition. Everyone else who wants a copy will have to pay money for a copy. We asked people to name a non-Test playing nation and say how they’d get them to the 2015 World Cup. Sarah, Canterbury
Continue readingOut of the Ashes DVD winners 1-5
< 1 minute read Here are the first five winning entries to the Out of the Ashes DVD competition. The other five will appear either tonight or tomorrow, depending on ‘arsedness’ on our part. We asked you to name a non-Test playing nation and say how you’d get them to the 2015 World Cup.
Continue readingOut of the Ashes extra scenes
< 1 minute read Worth watching to see Matthew Fleming getting super-nervy whenever a batsman hits a shot towards the car while he’s coaching at the MCC Cricket Camp in Afghanistan. Win a copy of the DVD: 50 words on how you’d get any non-Test playing nation to the 2015 World Cup Send your
Continue readingWin Out of the Ashes on DVD (UK residents only)
< 1 minute read To be in with a chance of winning one of 10 copies of Out of the Ashes on DVD, simply name a non-Test-playing nation and in 50 words or fewer explain how you would get them to the 2015 World Cup. Funniest and most colourful answers win. Don’t put your
Continue readingMeet Darren Gough
< 1 minute read This is the second competition to meet a cricketer. It is appearing here largely because we want to publish a picture of Darren Gough with a pork pie in his hand. The competition is over at The Mirror. The prize is actually pretty damn good: tickets to the first two
Continue readingMeet Sachin Tendulkar
< 1 minute read It’s probably the World Twenty20 and the Ashes, but we’re getting an insane number of press releases sent to us these days. Today we’re going to tell you about two separate competitions where you can meet a cricketer. This is the first one. It is classy. Sachin Tendulkar is doing
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