< 1 minute read Shaun Marsh has hit five fifties and a hundred in the IPL. He’s streets ahead of anyone else. He’s hit the most runs and he’s averaging 74.12. He’s adding to Kings XI Punjab‘s rich history of great batsmen. The best thing about Shaun Marsh is the way he’s scored his
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IPL semi final: Rajasthan Royals against Delhi Daredevils
< 1 minute read Rajasthan Recruitment Consultants have won 11 of their 14 league games. Delhi Database Administrators have won seven of their 14 games. Now they play a semi final. Delhi will probably win. Rumour has it that Rajasthan were spurred into their league-topping run by a huge Shane Warne bollocking after they
Continue readingBidding for Test matches
< 1 minute read This week’s Old Trafford Test was the last there until at least 2012. Putting aside our irritation that we can’t see Test cricket at our local ground, we can see that it’s increasingly shabby and that Lancashire have been complacent about their ‘right’ to hold Tests. Only that’s not necessarily
Continue readingWolverhampton Cricket Club v Leamington Cricket Club match report
2 minute read Matt B writes: I was up in Wolverhampton visiting my Dad. By late afternoon the relentless excitability of my seven year-old Chinese step-sister, the listlessness caused by a new lurgy and the lure of a still sweltering sunny day drove to me escape the house for a little bit of
Continue readingMahaboob Alam takes ten wickets in a one-day match
< 1 minute read Mahaboob Alam plays for Nepal. He took 10-12 from 7.5 overs against Mozambique. Mozambique made 19, so Mahaboob Alam was quite expensive. Still, on balance, well bowled Mahaboob Alam.
Continue readingAndrew Strauss repairs his stats
2 minute read Fortunate to be given the opportunity to do so, Andrew Strauss saved his Test career with a whopping 177 in the third and final Test of the tour of New Zealand. Since then, he’s hit 63, 60 and now 106 and suddenly there doesn’t seem to be much of a
Continue readingMonty Panesar at Old Trafford
2 minute read It’s been three years since we last went to the Old Trafford Test and didn’t see Monty Panesar take five wickets. Actually, that’s not strictly true. We went to two days of last year’s West Indies Test and on one of the days he only took four wickets. In 2006
Continue readingAndrew Symonds, a terrible batsman, hits some very lucky runs
< 1 minute read In January we said that Andrew Symonds had disproved our feeling that he wasn’t the man you wanted at the crease if you’d lost early wickets and everyone rounded on us for not thinking he was the mutt’s nuts even sooner. So we’re a bit uncertain what to say about
Continue readingJoe Denly hits a fourth innings hundred
< 1 minute read While largely overshadowed by Rob Key‘s silky 26, Joe Denly‘s 149 was still a weighty contribution towards a Kent total of 250. Kent lost, but you can’t really blame No Pants for that. Has anyone got any information on that nickname’s origins yet? If you do know and it’s a
Continue readingDaniel Flynn’s lost tooth
< 1 minute read Jacob Oram and the short ball: You pair are going to be great friends. It may have been Daniel Flynn’s tooth that James Anderson removed with a bouncer, but Jacob Oram looked the more uncomfortable against short-pitched bowling. Of course Flynn’s bloodied mélange of flesh and teeth went way beyond
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