< 1 minute read Yeah? Maybe? Dunno really. England have long known that one-day openers are better off being twat-it-around batsmen. They haven’t fully embraced this though. They tend to pick their second or third best twat-it-around batsman for the job. Preferably the wicketkeeper. Why not do the job properly? If you want a
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Forward defensive | Batting lessons
< 1 minute read Bring the bat down, clean and true, angled topwards but vertically horizontally. Aim to strike the ball while moving into a stationary position. A good forward defensive stroke will be soft-yet-firm, played late at the earliest opportunity with supple hands that caress the bat handle in a vice-like grip using
Continue readingNewsreader’s ‘small and impressive’ joke about the Ashes
< 1 minute read Brian pointed us towards this. We haven’t really got anything to add.
Continue readingEngland ABSOLUTELY MURDER Canada by 16 runs
< 1 minute read “Avril Lavigne, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette, The Crash Test Dummies. “Shania Twain, can you hear me? Shania Twain, your boys took a hell of a beating.” Sometimes England are so good at one-day cricket it’s physically painful just thinking about it.
Continue readingEngland heroes for the 2011 Cricket World Cup
2 minute read If you’re English, your heroes shouldn’t be talented or eye-catching. Being English is about celebrating the people who really don’t seem like they should be doing something, but are doing it anyway and are doing it well. Here are the official King Cricket heroes for the 2011 World Cup. These
Continue readingAre you happy with Ravi Bopara being in England’s World Cup squad?
2 minute read We are. We’d rather have Eoin Morgan, but if he’s got a knackered finger, we’ll settle for Bopara. This is a somewhat unfashionable opinion at the minute and we’re pretty sure it’s because of that phenomenon where Ashes performances are almost wholly responsible for forming people’s opinions. In 2009, Ravi
Continue readingA cricket iPhone ‘app’
< 1 minute read “You want to know what time it is? There’s an app for that. You want to make a phone call? There’s an app for that. You want your iPhone to remain inactive unless someone phones or texts you? There’s an app for that.” It seemed safe to assume that we
Continue readingOut of the Ashes salt in the wounds update
< 1 minute read These people didn’t win, either because they were too late or in Ireland. We liked their entries though. We asked people to name a non-Test playing nation and say how they’d get them to the 2015 World Cup. V | Finland Finland should definitely be on the list. As there
Continue readingThe greatest one-day series of all time
< 1 minute read We have done a review of the overly-short seven-match one-day series between Australia and England for Cricinfo – the series that had everything. On the plus side, Luke Wright gets a mention. On the down side, we got disappointingly complimentary comments, which is not what we’re used to at Cricinfo.
Continue readingOut of the Ashes DVD winners 6-10
2 minute read Here are the other winning entries to the Out of the Ashes DVD competition. Everyone else who wants a copy will have to pay money for a copy. We asked people to name a non-Test playing nation and say how they’d get them to the 2015 World Cup. Sarah, Canterbury
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