2 minute read No win, no fee cricket starts today in the shape of the Stanford Super Series, which culminates in a $20million winner-takes-all match between England and the Stanford Superstars next Saturday. We ordinarily support England, so we suppose that we’re supposed to follow them here as well. But why? They won’t
Continue readingMonth: October 2008
Ask the ‘expert’: Should I wait for an apology?
< 1 minute read If you’ve a question for Laurence Elderbrook, email us. CS writes: May I start this email by telling you how much I admire your restraint. After being run out by an inferior colleague who failed to make any kind of call, I left the crease (with my dignity preserved, of
Continue readingMiddlesex v Gloucestershire County Championship match report
2 minute read Quick recap of our submission guidelines for match reports: (1) Don’t mention the cricket. Ged Ladd writes: The weather forecast for day three had looked far from promising all week and so waking up to rain and a dismal forecast came as a disappointment but no surprise. My guest, Charley
Continue readingLancashire sign VVS Laxman
< 1 minute read VVS Laxman is a great player who doesn’t play one-day internationals or Twenty20 internationals. He’s been at Lancashire before and done extremely well and everyone like him. Good signing. It also bolsters Lancashire’s batting, which needs a little bit of enbolsterment right now. Hopefully the enbolstery brought by Laxman will
Continue readingAustralian Test batting averages
2 minute read Tell you which two players have scored most runs for Australia over the last ten or fifteen years: Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. Stick with us on this.
Continue readingDaniel Vettori – the premier slow left-arm all-rounder
< 1 minute read Daniel Vettori took 9-133 in this Test. Shakib al Hasan took 9-116. Daniel Vettori hit 76 in his second innings. Shakib al Hasan hit 71. Daniel Vettori hit 55 not out in his first innings. Shakib al Hasan got five. Daniel Vettori wins. New Zealand win. Shakib al Hasan loses.
Continue reading‘Cricketainment’ – has it come to this?
< 1 minute read One thing we know about people: they love to get wound up about stuff. People love getting irritated, even incensed by things they could so easily avoid. Nowhere is this more true than on the internet. So if you’re one of those people, steel yourself for a good old fashioned
Continue readingAustralia, a young team in transition, look to the positives
< 1 minute read And other such euphemisms. Whatever happens tomorrow, it’s been years since Australia were bossed about like this. They’ve lost Tests over the last few years, but those losses have often been helter skelter, chaotic affairs. This is different. Australia are being dictated to. Ever since Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly
Continue readingAmit Mishra takes five wickets on Test debut
2 minute read In Sri Lanka, earlier this year, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh were outbowled to a frightening degree by Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis. With their spin bowlers stumbling somewhat and Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma doing as good a job as all four Aussie quicks put together in the first
Continue readingShakib al Hasan becomes a Test player
< 1 minute read Shakib al Hasan has played six Tests before this current one against New Zealand, but he hasn’t hit a fifty and before today he was averaging over a hundred with the ball. Not any more. After Bangladesh recovered from a rocky start to their innings to post a mediocre 245,
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