< 1 minute read We’d rate Eoin Morgan’s 85 not out off 45 balls as the best Twenty20 performance we’ve seen from an England player. The six that he ever-so-gently placed onto the roof of a three-storey building outside the ground would ordinarily have been the most remarkable shot played in the match. We
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No Ashes on Sky means no money for English cricket
< 1 minute read This seems to be the crisis facing the ECB as it seems increasingly likely that home Ashes series will be shown on free TV from now on. We’ve a few thoughts about this. Sponsorship of the England team If we were sponsoring England, we’d pay more if we thought four
Continue readingYounus Khan resigns, quits, rests, stands down, walks
< 1 minute read Younus Khan has had another captaincy wobble. It seems half the team think he’s a tool and won’t do what he says. This is a bit annoying for Pakistan supporters, because when Younus has been in charge and the players have made half an effort to follow him, the team
Continue readingReviews of No Boundaries by Ronnie Irani
< 1 minute read At what point does a book become so bad that you actually find yourself wanting to read it? There are some great reviews of Ronnie Irani’s book, No Boundaries, on Amazon: “I once bought a Man United shirt with the name of Keith Gillespie on the back days before the
Continue readingEngland losing warm-up matches at the start of a tour
< 1 minute read Seasoned England watchers know that England losing warm-up matches is just an unpleasant fact of life. It’s like that gnawing sense that something’s very, very wrong when you wake up in the morning. Just reach for your bottle of supermarket brand gin that you keep on the bedside table and
Continue readingWe went to the Sky offices
3 minute read We popped into the Sky offices last weekend to go and see some people from The Wisden Cricketer. Where are Sky’s offices? The address is the not-at-all-made-up-sounding 123 Buckingham Palace Road. We were confronted with a large glass wall with a small glass revolving door in the middle of it.
Continue readingMohammad Aamer becomes a fully-fledged Pakistani cricketer
< 1 minute read Not many countries can pick 17-year-olds to open the bowling for them, because not many countries have 17-year-olds who can scythe the ball past international opening batsmen and swing it both ways. Even that’s not enough to make Mohammad Aamer a fully-fledged Pakistani cricketer though. There’s more to it than
Continue readingAustralian cricketers are generally ready for international cricket
< 1 minute read Australia have managed a cracking one-day series victory over India, particularly considering they’re down to Clint McKay and the likes. There’s a core of first-choice players, but if you were in the vicinity of the Australia side at some point recently and happened to be wearing a yellow T-shirt, chances
Continue readingAshes Cricket 2009 video game review | PC, PS3, Xbox 360
3 minute read Ashes Cricket 2009 is an action cricket game, as opposed to a strategy game. It’s probably the best cricket game going of that type. Batting Weirdly, batting’s actually better than bowling. In previous cricket games, batting has largely been about getting frustrated and smashing the joypad because your idiot batsman
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar – 20 years of batting like this is just astonishing
3 minute read Did you know that it took 78 one-day internationals for Sachin Tendulkar to score a hundred? It’s an odd fact, that, considering he’s squeezed in another 44 since then, including a whopping 175 against Australia today. It’s sometimes difficult to appreciate Sachin Tendulkar properly. It’s like thinking about the vast
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