< 1 minute read Here are the first five winning entries to the Out of the Ashes DVD competition. The other five will appear either tonight or tomorrow, depending on ‘arsedness’ on our part. We asked you to name a non-Test playing nation and say how you’d get them to the 2015 World Cup.
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Out of the Ashes extra scenes
< 1 minute read Worth watching to see Matthew Fleming getting super-nervy whenever a batsman hits a shot towards the car while he’s coaching at the MCC Cricket Camp in Afghanistan. Win a copy of the DVD: 50 words on how you’d get any non-Test playing nation to the 2015 World Cup Send your
Continue readingWe know how you all feel about change
< 1 minute read We’re pretty sure that none of you are in favour of change, so apologies for making things look different. Just try and ignore it. If you want someone to blame, blame The Crowe. We got him to do this design for us. We’d link to his website, but he hasn’t
Continue readingIf only there were an eighth one-day international between Australia and England
< 1 minute read What is the greatest mark of quality for any given one-day international? We’ve always thought that if a game features four wicketkeepers, that’s a pretty good sign. During the seventh one-day international between Australia and England, that dream was finally realised. In many ways, this match represented a high water
Continue readingWin Out of the Ashes on DVD (UK residents only)
< 1 minute read To be in with a chance of winning one of 10 copies of Out of the Ashes on DVD, simply name a non-Test-playing nation and in 50 words or fewer explain how you would get them to the 2015 World Cup. Funniest and most colourful answers win. Don’t put your
Continue readingSpot fixing bans and second chances for Amir, Asif and Butt
2 minute read People are idiots. That’s a rule that pretty much always stands up to scrutiny. Put people in a position where there’s a choice to make and they will naturally veer towards the stupid option by default. Even so, some options are sufficiently stupid that most of us don’t take them.
Continue readingOut of the Ashes | DVD review
2 minute read Out of the Ashes is a documentary about the Afghanistan cricket team’s joyously ludicrous journey from war to the Twenty20 World Cup. Have you ever watched a film and felt completely and utterly unmoved by the most spectacular action sequences because you don’t care one bit about the characters in
Continue readingNot enough Blu-Tack in cricket
< 1 minute read You know it and we know it too. Thankfully, there’s a little bit of Blu-Tack on the Wisden Cricketer blog at the moment. The bit where some of the Blu-Tack looks sad is a high point.
Continue readingLondon Tigers tour to Bangladesh – joke needed
< 1 minute read London Tigers are sending a team to tour Bangladesh at the same time as the World Cup. London Tigers help underprivileged youths, so we’re having a hard time coming up with a joke for today’s post. Maybe something about them being better than England? Is there something in that? You’re
Continue readingAshes series were already too frequent
2 minute read We’d like to add a slightly more sober footnote to our post from last Friday. We described back-to-back Ashes series as being ‘quite literally the worst idea of all time’. We stand by that and would like say that it’s actually the worst idea by an even greater margin that
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