< 1 minute read We were struck that England actually had a good batting line-up today; one with rare solidity. With Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott opening, England have grown-ups at the top of the order. There’s a dependable feel about both of them and the rest of the line-up hangs off that. In
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Jimmy Anderson sullied by marketing
< 1 minute read Jimmy Anderson’s been signed up by everyone’s favourite overexposed cricket bat brand, Mongoose. All you need to know is that the designer thinks that Anderson’s bowling is “an ideal brand fit for Mongoose”. Imagine what state your soul would be in if you worked somewhere where people regularly said things
Continue readingEngland’s billion-and-one development squads and some other stuff
< 1 minute read We’re generally of the opinion that despite reading a website written by us, you wouldn’t actually be that interested in anything we’ve written, so by and large we don’t tell you about any of it. That said, we’re feeling lazy and can’t be arsed doing a proper update, so we’ll
Continue readingMahela Jayawardene does not get bored
< 1 minute read After Mahela Jayawardene recorded his sixth Test double hundred, it was tempting to wonder whether he ever gets bored. We get bored very, very easily. We get bored midway through unlocking our front door and that takes less than five seconds. The only exception to this is rail travel, where
Continue readingHowzat internet cricket game launched
< 1 minute read We did a preview of Howzat a few weeks ago. Just to let you know, it’s live now, so you can give it a go for yourselves. It’s free, if that’s what you’re wondering. Play Howzat and let us know what you think.
Continue readingShakib signs for crap second division county
< 1 minute read We’d sooner Shakib Al Hasan had signed for a first division county, but don’t underestimate the significance of a Bangladeshi clambering aboard the treadmill. It means that while they might be three-and-a-half years late, Worcestershire have cottoned on to the fact that this is a good player – despite the
Continue readingSri Lanka replace Chaminda Vaas
< 1 minute read Sri Lanka have searched long and hard and now they’ve finally found a replacement for Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas. Step forward Uda Walawwe Mahim Bandaralage Chanaka Asanga Welegedara, who opened the bowling against India yesterday. If only his mother were still alive to see him make his debut.
Continue readingRahul Dravid still has some runs to score
< 1 minute read Did anyone outside India really think that Rahul Dravid should have been dropped at any point during his relatively prolonged spell of poor form? We certainly didn’t. It’s Rahul Dravid. Looking back now, it seems that run of poor form ended about this time last year in Mohali when he
Continue readingCow corner cricket – Twenty20 matches that push the boundaries
< 1 minute read England just couldn’t quite get the 85 runs they needed off the final ball. However, while we give Loots Bosman and Graeme Smith enormous credit for the faultlessness of their hitting, South Africa’s monumental Twenty20 total of 241 was perhaps one step too close to slogging. We defend Twenty20 cricket
Continue readingLoots Bosman and Graeme Smith should play on ‘hard’ now
< 1 minute read Loots Bosman and Graeme Smith today batted in international cricket as if they were playing an overfamiliar cricket computer game on easy setting. Simply aim at cow corner and press the six-hit button. It was astonishingly clean hitting. Almost robotic. Alastair Cook erred hugely in not positioning a fielder on
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