< 1 minute read Matthew Hayden’s been out of international cricket for a while now. It’s natural that he’d be a bit rusty. We’re not talking in terms of his batting. We’re talking in terms of his guff talking. He’s not totally lost it though: “This game, coming tomorrow night, is the opportunity to
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What is The Hayden Way?
< 1 minute read Sami has just pointed us towards The Hayden Way. It’s currently a one page website which we might as well reproduce in its entirety: So what does The Hayden Way do? It prides itself on the delivery of unnecessary apostrophes.
Continue readingMohammad Yousuf’s “retirement”
< 1 minute read If you want to know how to retire from cricket. Look to Pakistan. Look to Mohammad Yousuf, who’s executed a textbook Pakistan cricket retirement. “This is my retirement. I have retired from international cricket.” He then added: “For now, this is it. For now this is my retirement.” That’s how
Continue readingDarling, I think I’m going to need… more ties!
< 1 minute read That’s the emotional climax of the Just For Men advert that we’ve seen about 18 times today while watching the IPL. We’ve gone through hatred and emerged the other side, joining in with the ‘more ties!’ bit, punching the air for emphasis. It’s astonishing the level of advertising you’re exposed
Continue readingRoss Taylor hits fastest Test hundred by a New Zealander
< 1 minute read Are breathtaking innings all about how many sixes are hit and how few balls are faced? Ross Taylor’s 81-ball hundred against Australia wouldn’t even be half as good as Yusuf Pathan’s 37-ball IPL hundred if that were the case. Clearly, it’s all about context. A DLF Maximum is commonplace. In
Continue readingHave you lost interest in IPL 2010 yet?
< 1 minute read We have a bit. It’s not so much that we don’t really care about any of the teams – you can get over that. It’s more the feeling that none of the matches actually matters yet. They’re still going to be playing in a few weeks’ time and maybe then
Continue readingA cricket bat from an unusual angle
< 1 minute read Bobby K sent us this: We thought it might look pretty cool if we cropped out all the background. It didn’t really, but we’re including the picture anyway. You invest 10 or 12 seconds in cropping a photo and you want to share it with the world.
Continue readingBangladesh v England – no protagonist, no narrative, no cephalopods
< 1 minute read Good films come in two forms: The writers are smarter than you and have constructed an ingenious plot where the story slowly unfolds, keeping you rapt The writers are far stupider than you and haven’t a clue about plot structure, so just to keep things moving, every now and again
Continue readingSourav Ganguly – Kolkata Knight Riders’ main man?
< 1 minute read There can’t have been many sentences written about Sourav Ganguly more damning than this one by ‘Cricinfo staff’: “This is not the end of the road for Ganguly because he remains Kolkata’s brand image.” You’ll always have that, Sourav. You’ll always have your skills as a ‘brand ambassador’.
Continue readingNEW OBSESSION: Danny Morrison commentary
< 1 minute read We haven’t had a weird obsession with a trivial element of cricket in ages. Luckily Danny Morrison’s bizarrely beguiling intonation has stepped into the breach. Hanging on his every word We don’t dislike Danny Morrison, but he’s not a good commentator. Despite this, we find ourself listening to him far
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