< 1 minute read If you actually enjoy cricket, you can’t help but have enjoyed watching Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer and Umar Gul bowl yesterday. It was better than spoon meat and carbonated dipping jam. That they bowled Australia out for 88 was something of a bonus. Quite simply, this was cricket LIKE IT’S
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A cricket bat joke – is this funny or not?
< 1 minute read We’ve been having a discussion with someone about whether this is funny or not. If you have to explain a joke, it generally isn’t funny. But surely not in this instance. Surely. Bellingham and Smith is a cricket bat manufacturer. We’re of the belief that this is a new business
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< 1 minute read Then a chronic inability to spell people’s first names shouldn’t hold you back: “England cricketers Andrew Strauss, Alistair Cook and Eion Morgan put the Jaguar XJ through its paces” At least they got ‘Andrew’ right. One out of three isn’t too bad and the surnames are all spot-on. Good work.
Continue readingMiddlesex v Australians match report
3 minute read Ged Ladd writes: I had been invited to a 30th anniversary reunion at school for this day. The thought of a formal school reunion horrified me, so I arranged to be at cricket during the day and at the theatre in the evening, to ensure my unavailability. I had met
Continue readingFind out whether you’ll one day captain Pakistan
< 1 minute read Using a Venn diagram!
Continue readingThe Indian bowling defence
< 1 minute read Well it isn’t a bowling attack, is it? India have got a medium-pacer called Abhimanyu Mithun opening the bowling against Sri Lanka. We hadn’t even heard of him until this morning. Muralitharan said this week that Harbhajan Singh was the only person who could challenge his Test wickets record. At
Continue readingShahid Afridi should only play Test cricket
< 1 minute read Only four days after returning to Test cricket, Pakistan captain, Shahid Afridi, has again announced his retirement with the typically odd yet straightforward statement: “My temperament is not good enough for Test cricket and we need a proper batsman or a proper bowler.” Only yesterday we were remarking how Test
Continue readingSteven Smith’s bowling action
< 1 minute read You can waste a hell of a lot of time deconstructing Steven Smith’s double-elbowed chicken dance bowling action. We mentioned this to a friend of ours and he said, quite simply: “I want to deconstruct Steven Smith’s face.”
Continue readingLeg stump – the third of the wicket that you wouldn’t invite round for dinner
< 1 minute read The leg stump is the poor man’s stump. We think it’s time it got equal rights. How often have you heard the following, or similar, after an LBW appeal is turned down: “Hawk-Eye shows that would have just clipped leg, so that’s probably a fair decision.” No it isn’t. If
Continue readingDanish Kaneria outwits Mitchell Johnson
< 1 minute read One thing we don’t like about modern cricket is the long batting order. We want to see the best batsmen against the best bowlers and then we want the lower order to just fold so that we can get on to the next innings. In truth, these long batting orders
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