< 1 minute read Richie Benaud is going to be on British TV this summer. He is going to be working as Channel 5’s analyst during the Ashes. We’ve heard that Richie’s recent commentating has gone downhill a bit, but this role must surely be perfect for him and it must be perfect for
Continue readingMonth: June 2009
What is going on in terms of cricket this summer?
2 minute read You played cricket last weekend and you liked it. You’re suddenly interested in the sport. You want to know what the professionals are doing. Here’s our cut-out-and-throw-away guide to the clean, simple, straightforward cricketing fixture list this summer. First of all the County Championship started. This is in two divisions,
Continue readingWriting for Cricinfo
< 1 minute read We did a piece for Cricinfo. Almost inevitably it features Rob Key. The surprising part is that we had never previously submitted a Rob Key article to them. We have a 100% strike rate when it comes to submitting articles about Rob Key to Cricinfo. They are clearly receptive…
Continue readingWhat can Australia do with their fortnight off?
< 1 minute read Having had a couple of turd matches, Australia find themselves knocked out of the World Twenty20. Before playing Sri Lanka, Ricky Ponting joked about how they weren’t considering failure because the alternative, a fortnight in Leicester, was too horrific to contemplate. Quite apart from the fact that Sri Lanka are
Continue readingMeet Darren Gough
< 1 minute read This is the second competition to meet a cricketer. It is appearing here largely because we want to publish a picture of Darren Gough with a pork pie in his hand. The competition is over at The Mirror. The prize is actually pretty damn good: tickets to the first two
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< 1 minute read It’s probably the World Twenty20 and the Ashes, but we’re getting an insane number of press releases sent to us these days. Today we’re going to tell you about two separate competitions where you can meet a cricketer. This is the first one. It is classy. Sachin Tendulkar is doing
Continue readingTaking risks when batting in Twenty20 matches
< 1 minute read England should have learnt a major lesson from their first two matches in the World Twenty20. Against the Netherlands, they thought they were the better team and thought that if they didn’t make any mistakes when batting, they’d win. You don’t win Twenty20 matches by not making any mistakes. You’re
Continue readingHow can we convince England they’re not losers?
2 minute read We wrote this for a grown-up website, but they didn’t want it, so we’re fobbing it off on you lot instead… Dress them in orange and change their names From the Pavilion End, James Van Andersen; and from the Nursery End, Stuart den Broad. Feed them spinach Tell them it’ll
Continue readingChris Gayle is awesome at Twenty20
< 1 minute read Amid all the furore when Chris Gayle said he wouldn’t be all that sad if Test cricket died, one key fact slipped into the background: Chris Gayle is phenomenally good at this form of the game. Why wouldn’t he prefer it? Gayle is an exceptional Twenty20 batsman. Arguably the best
Continue readingDarron Reekers – Netherlands opening batsman and short-term cult hero
< 1 minute read Is there anything on earth that can’t be improved by the presence of a fat man who achieves his ends using amateurism and brute force? No, of course there isn’t. Think of Walter in The Big Lebowski. “You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens?” Incidentally, here’s a surreally
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