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December 8, 2011 India

Virender Sehwag has something to shout about in one-day cricket

< 1 minute read And it’s about time. We were talking about Sehwag’s unspectacular one-day record on this site only the other day. He’s properly addressed that now by hitting the highest one-day international score of all time. Sehwag deserves a one-day record – not because he’s an exceptional one-day batsman, but because he’s

December 8, 2011 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Stick Cricket now available on Android

< 1 minute read Not as good as android cricket now being available on a stick. Yes, that’s right, today’s entire King Cricket offering is a limp one line joke based around our love of robots and our luddite attitude to mobile phones. We haven’t even explained what Stick Cricket is or included a

December 7, 2011 Australia

Andrew Symonds – reality TV star

< 1 minute read Andrew Symonds: he’s just a hard-drinkin’, fishin’, pig-wrestlin’ Aussie who’s only happy doin’ outdoors things in the bush. He loved cricket, but life in the public eye was too much for him. The intense glare of the media made him crack. Thankfully, all that’s behind him now and he can

December 6, 2011 India / West Indies

India lose home one-day international – West Indies win away

< 1 minute read Which is the more noteworthy? Not sure. Not sure it matters. Both facts are pretty striking. West Indies West Indies’ tour of the subcontinent, while on the face of it relatively unsuccessful, has been fairly decent in our eyes. It’s a bit sad that expectations have dropped that much, but

December 5, 2011 Australia

The ball is coming out of the hand well

< 1 minute read We were reading about Australia’s latest call-up, Daniel Trevor Christian today. Aside from wondering whether a West Indian cricketer could trade him a surname for one of his first names, we were also struck by his use of the phrase ‘the ball is coming out of the hand well’. We

December 4, 2011 Australia

James Pattinson and Australian desperation

2 minute read It’s been a great period in Australian cricket. There have been so many poor performances that the nation attained that blissful state where everyone’s running around screaming ‘do something!’ without any agreement as to what that something might be. It didn’t matter who was right and who was wrong, just

December 2, 2011 Australia

David Warner’s Twenty20 reputation

2 minute read We’ve some sympathy for the young, millionnaire cricketer, David Warner – and it’s not just because he’s Australian. We feel that sympathy – just a small amount – because he’s been branded a Twenty20 player. Warner’s done well off the back of Twenty20, but he’s always going to have to

December 1, 2011 Australia

Australia pick the wrong bowlers

< 1 minute read With New Zealand 176-5, you may disagree with that. That’s not really our point. Our point is that we haven’t got anything to say about James Pattinson and Mitchell Starc. We were hoping Ben Cutting would get the nod. His training revolves around distance running, not weight-lifting – an approach

November 30, 2011 Australia

Michael Clarke’s support for Mitchell Johnson is getting ridiculous

< 1 minute read Michael Clarke concluded early on in his tenure that his man management of Mitchell Johnson would involve unconditional love, no matter what the tufty-haired purveyor of left-arm ineptitude did with the ball. Johnson hasn’t taken many wickets recently, but Clarke’s been steadfast in his support. Someone should tell him he

November 29, 2011 County cricket

2012 Twenty20 Cup schedule

< 1 minute read There’s little point criticising the 2012 county cricket fixture list. They’d made a report saying how they might change it before it had even been released. That said, we still find the Twenty20 Cup schedule bizarre. They play every day for a month. Then they play quarter finals two-and-a-half weeks