< 1 minute read Another day, another cricket World Cup. We think this one’s likely to be better than the 50 over one though. Many of the things that were wrong with the 50 over World Cup don’t apply here. It’s shorter, only lasting a couple of weeks. It’s only got the big teams
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Stuart MacGill with some bird on his arm
< 1 minute read Ho ho ho. It’s an actual… Ah, you get the drift. Let’s discuss whose bird’s the nicer: Kevin’s or Stuart’s.
Continue readingKevin Pietersen with some bird on his arm
< 1 minute read Ho ho ho. It’s an actual bird. We weren’t really referring to a woman as a bird because that would be demeaning. We were just alluding to that usage – which is of course perfectly acceptable. Worst post ever. Good job there’s absolutely no chance of our ever making this
Continue readingA one-day series that was actually good comes to an end
< 1 minute read England and India drew their seven match one-day series after the final match at Lord’s ended in a tie. India batted first, Sachin Tendulkar scoring every single one of their 92 runs. In reply, England fell to 0-9 until Jimmy Anderson spirited up an unbelievable rearguard action scoring 92 by
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar is still miles better than everyone – especially you
< 1 minute read Ian Bell is one of England’s better one-day batsmen. He’s quite experienced now having played 53 one-day internationals. During this time he’s hit 1,854 runs. That’s a lot of runs. You’ll never hit that many. However, Ian Bell is a shrimp, a gnat, or even an atom when compared to
Continue readingRobin Uthappa totally unarsed by insane amount of pressure
< 1 minute read What is it with ridiculously young Indian batsmen? They just think they can come over here and chase down 300 plus one-day scores without so much as a hint of knock-kneed panic or paralysing defeatism. Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif are prime examples and yesterday Robin Uthappa, 21, shrugged his
Continue readingLuke Wright’s debut
< 1 minute read We were moaning about Matt Prior as opener the other day. When Luke Wright was called up to the England squad, it opened up the possibility of his opening up some possibilities through opening… up. He didn’t and Matt Prior scored six, so Wright didn’t do his opening ambitions any
Continue readingDarren Gough’s sinister offer
< 1 minute read It’s a shoe. We’re not scared of a shoe, Darren. There’s nothing wrong with having a shoe. It’s not like you’re trying to get us hooked on class A drugs or something.
Continue readingYuvraj Singh in one-day cricket this summer
< 1 minute read We’ve made one or two rash pronouncements in our time. Fortunately most of them are now all-but-invisible on the old site. However, we’re going to bring one to the fore today in a fairly transparent bid to make a player lose form for a couple of matches against England. This
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