Cricket Venn diagrams

< 1 minute readIs there enough interest in cricket Venn diagrams to warrant making it into a regular feature? After literally more than one person complained after we didn’t provide one, we feel there is. The above is by prbass and is an excellent Venn diagram with which to kick off. The people

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Andrew Strauss hits sixes

< 1 minute read13 sixes in 106 one-day international innings and then he hits five during one knock. Andrew Strauss’s six-hitting has gone up a notch. It’s now at notch one. Not sure what notch Shahid Afridi’s up to, but he’s hit 272 one-day international sixes. Afridi’s probably not got much time for

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We like that Ian Bell was not out

< 1 minute readIan Bell’s made larger steps towards forcing us into an opinion before now. Yesterday’s 84 not out against Bangladesh was more of a shuffle, but we like that he got the job done – because that is, after all, the whole point. Number three is a funny spot in one-day

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Kingfisher IPL advert

< 1 minute readBritish readers will never have seen this. We saw it rather a lot when we were in Bangalore earlier in the year. It’s quite something. Watch it three times and see whether the tune’s stuck in your head.

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Andrew Strauss’s wedgie handle

< 1 minute readThere’s all sorts of odd cricket equipment around these days, but we’ve no idea why someone would attach a handle to their own underwear to better enable them to self-wedgie. [God knows what this image was. It must have been hilarious though.]

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Shaun Tait’s bowling speed

< 1 minute readShaun Tait is unquestionably a fast bowler – probably the fastest around at the moment. You can tell because batsmen regularly ‘make room’ to play him – they’re getting their bodies out of the way, not freeing their arms. A Shaun Tait delivery was clocked at 100mph at Lord’s in

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