3 minute read Most of you know that this website is largely funded by donations. There are a few ads, but most of the good stuff that appears on the site appears because a few dozen patrons pledge a bit of money each month and that money gives us an excuse to spend
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What exactly did Matthew Hayden say when he was “in conversation with the mystic”?
3 minute read If you don’t know Indian yogi and author “Sadhguru” (Jaggi Vasudev), he’s kind of a big deal. The Isha Foundation that he set up in 1992 is said to have over nine million volunteers. A lot of people like Sadhguru. They think he’s wise. In August 2019, Sadhguru agreed to
Continue reading90s XI v Now XI, day 5: Finally, a result…
4 minute read We’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Here’s what happened on day four. And here’s the match situation at the start of day five: The Now XI need 318 to win. The 90s XI
Continue reading90s XI v Now XI, day 4: They’ll try and chase down any target nowadays
4 minute read We’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Here’s what happened on day three. Here’s the match situation. The 90s XI leads by 264 runs with nine second innings wickets in hand. We’re not a
Continue reading90s XI v Now XI, day 3: Vintage pace attack has its say
4 minute read We’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Day two went like this. Here’s the match situation. No comment from us on any of this because we’re completely impartial. It’s going to be a pivotal
Continue reading90s XI v Now XI, day 2: Match shaped by surprise early spin
4 minute read We’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Day one was fairly stupid in that Nathan Lyon took four wickets. No matter which team you’re supporting, let’s hope that’s the end of that sort of
Continue reading90s XI v Now XI, day 1: Slow pitch mars opening day
4 minute read We’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Let’s start with teams and stats. Partly because we imagine you want to pore over the averages, but mainly because there’s a 12th man joke we want
Continue readingA Current World Test XI
3 minute read We’re going to play a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI. Let’s pick the latter. As we asked the other day, what is ‘now’? We’re still niggled by the notion that the 90s XI has a whole era of talent at its
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5 minute read We’re going to play a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI. Let’s pick our first team. After we announced that this particular Sim Series Test was going to take place, there was quite a lot of discussion about who should be in
Continue readingSim Series: 90s XI v Now XI
2 minute read We’re going to play another Sim Series. The last few were a bit Ashes-centric so this time we’re going to pit a World 90s XI against a World Now XI. If you don’t about Sim Series, this is how it works: we pick two fantasy teams based on some flimsy
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