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July 15, 2014 County cricket

Simon Kerrigan – will they or won’t they?

< 1 minute read Most people’s knowledge of Simon Kerrigan’s bowling amounts to eight overs on his debut. That’s not a huge amount to go off and those overs too in circumstances that can be considered exceptional and therefore perhaps not properly representative of his ability. On the other hand, he still has to

July 14, 2014 England

A pitch for Cook the bowler and Anderson the batsman

< 1 minute read For a very short while on the final day, it seemed like things could potentially maybe be sort of in the balance a little bit if a few more things went England’s way, but then it very much wasn’t in the balance and the day climaxed with Alastair Cook’s round-arm

July 12, 2014 England / India

Jimmy Anderson and the lost art of opening doors

< 1 minute read This England team isn’t the most popular, but you can’t fault Jimmy Anderson for that. He’s waging a one-man willow-wielding war on unpopularity this summer. You wouldn’t think it possible to improve on his efforts against Sri Lanka, but at Trent Bridge, against India, he may well have managed it.

July 12, 2014 England / Extras

Great insight about Ishant Sharma gleaned from having spent a day watching him bowl

< 1 minute read We were at the Test yesterday. It was… steady. Or at least it was until Stuart Broad came in. The main thing we gleaned from our side-on vantage point is that Ishant Sharma has two different running styles during his approach to the crease. First, he jogs normally. Then, halfway

July 10, 2014 England / India

Rhythm, timing and a diverse bowling attack

2 minute read This starts off as a Twitter story, but stick with it because that’s merely the setting. The point we’re about to make has nothing to do with that. Firstly, let us just say that we don’t make predictions on Twitter. No-one really cares what we think and it’s too easy

July 9, 2014 England / India

Murali Vijay’s straight bat against England’s ‘worthy’ bowling

< 1 minute read There’s been a fair amount of whinging about the slowness and lowness of the pitch – and not without cause – but it strikes us that really good bowling attacks don’t happen across dead pitches very often. England’s is not a really good bowling attack. The point of Test cricket

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All Out Cricket fantasy game for England v India series

< 1 minute read If you don’t already know, All Out Cricket magazine do a fantasy league thing. We’ve entered and set up a mini league. If you want to join and compete against us, it’s called The Kingdom and the not-so-secret key to gain access is ‘Rob Key’. Our team’s called The Courtiers.

July 8, 2014 England

“People want to see runs”

< 1 minute read People are always saying this. It drives us mental. They say it like it’s a fact. Stuart Broad’s the latest. “I think Test wickets should be flat, no doubt, because the crowds want to come and see runs scored.” No we don’t. The most boring days we’ve ever seen have

July 7, 2014 England

Article about English county cricketer fails to dwell on his chances of playing for England

< 1 minute read There is more than one thing to celebrate regarding Andrew Flintoff’s return to competitive cricket, but surely this is the greatest. A county match report which doesn’t go on and on about how some no-mark is ‘pushing for selection’ is a rare thing indeed. Okay, so in this instance the

July 5, 2014 England

Andrew Strauss lets rip about Kevin Pietersen

< 1 minute read Apparently Andrew Strauss has been caught calling Kevin Pietersen ‘the C-word’ during a commentary stint. He thought he was off-air, but they were actually still broadcasting in Australia. Being as this is Strauss, we’re presuming that the word used was ‘cad’. We’re quite taken aback by this. Our guess would