< 1 minute read We were going to draw together a bunch of our articles about the nature of Twenty20 cricket for today’s update as a kind of ‘easy win’. However, when we started searching the site to put this together, we discovered we already had such a thing. Hurray! Even easier win! Then
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A mankad prevents batsmen from taking the piss
< 1 minute read Before the Asia Cup qualifying round, the Asian Cricket Council is said to have met with the four Associate teams and told them not to mankad. Oman’s Aamir Kaleem was having none of it. He did for Hong Kong’s Mark Chapman in precisely that manner. Oman won. There’s now been
Continue readingWe wrote about what some other people wrote on Twitter
< 1 minute read It’s a harder task than you might imagine. The spoils of our long hours of trawling are over at Cricinfo. Nando’s Watch is back by popular request and there’s also a bit about Danny Morrison. We love Danny Morrison and his unrelated-bullet-points style of communication. It’s good to see he’s
Continue readingHow will BBC website’s Cricket World Cup highlights work?
< 1 minute read If you haven’t heard, the BBC’s secured the rights to publish video highlights of Cricket World Cups on its website. As with most things in our life, we can’t tell whether this is hugely significant or neither here nor there. The way it’s described, it sounds like short video clips
Continue readingWhy Test cricket is not about runs
3 minute read Pit the same two teams against each other in different places or in different weather and you’ll get a different match. This is what makes Test cricket more intriguing than the upside-down picture of a crow with human legs in our local pub. With such breadth comes varying levels of
Continue readingHappy birthday to King Cricket
2 minute read Our first reader got in touch with us this week – a man who once went by the name of The Scientician. Some of you may remember him from his shocking exposé of Jaffa Cakes as a sports snack. The Scientician pointed out to us that we’re 10. We don’t
Continue readingA Nightwatchman for Christmas?
< 1 minute read Send him in. Let him weather the marketing and do all the preparations and cooking. Then you can just swan in on Boxing Day to eat leftovers and get drunk. No, this is Nightwatchman with an upper-case N. The Wisden cricket quarterly is doing gift packages. If you don’t know
Continue readingCricket books for Boxing Day Test Eve
3 minute read We know that many of you like to pass the time on Boxing Day Test Eve by giving people presents. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the better cricket-themed books on offer this year. These are just some of the newer ones. Take a look at the book review
Continue readingLast in the Tin Bath – a review of David Lloyd’s autobiography
3 minute read Back when we reviewed Start the Car: The World According to Bumble, we suggested that rather than majoring on Lloyd’s zaniness, they might have been better off writing a traditional autobiography. Well this is what they’ve done. The result is indeed a better book. For those that don’t know, before
Continue readingDeath of a Gentleman’s out on DVD
2 minute read We’ve all bought films on DVD because we feel guilty about going to Croatia instead of attending the premiere, haven’t we? To be honest, we’d have bought it anyway. It’s a great film. Weirdly lovely, despite the somewhat bleak subject matter. Plus, as an added bonus, owning the DVD allows
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