< 1 minute read Dhoni was caught off Fidel Edwards, but umpire Iain Gould thought it was a no-ball and asked the third umpire for confirmation. It was a no-ball, but the broadcaster showed the third umpire the wrong footage and Dhoni was wrongly given out. What does this tell us? It tells us
Continue readingMonth: June 2011
Five-Test series between England and India
< 1 minute read Have we updated the site today? No. Did we forget? Yes. Will this be one of our all-time greatest updates? Definitely not. India and England will play five-Test series in 2014 and 2018. That’s good, isn’t it? Five-Test series allow for a proper narrative to develop. The term ‘five-Test series’
Continue readingSanath Jayasuriya’s last match
< 1 minute read Sanath Jayasuriya has finally bowed out of cricket just three days short of his 70th birthday. He departed how he had thrived, with a ferocious cut shot. Asked to reflect on his career, Jayasuriya may or may not have said: “Eh? What? Speak up. Why does everybody mumble these days?
Continue readingAlastair Cook as a one-day opener
< 1 minute read Dunno. Give him a chance? The best players are adaptable, but we can’t shake the feeling that even if Alastair Cook can survive as a one-day batsman, he isn’t an opener. Batsmen sometimes get branded as being ‘openers’ in England, but one-day opening is different. Successful one-day openers generally come
Continue readingBatsmen not allowed runners in international cricket
< 1 minute read This is a sad development. The ICC have said that batsmen are no longer allowed to have someone run on their behalf when they get injured or suffer cramp or forget to bring the right shoes. The runner serves a valuable purpose in cricket. He helps create the misunderstandings that
Continue readingWin India v England tickets for the Oval Test
< 1 minute read Competition closed. See here for Oval cricket tickets. We hate doing competitions. Sorting through all the entries sucks hours from our life and we always get stressed out that the winners aren’t going to receive their prizes. This is a good one though. You could win a pair of tickets
Continue readingCrickileaks by Alan Tyers
< 1 minute read Do you know Alan Tyers’ work? You can probably make your own mind up about this book if you do. Crickileaks is what you would expect from him. The fake diary is Alan Tyers’ thing. He’s done them for Cricinfo and The Wisden Cricketer (now The Cricketer) many times before
Continue readingCall Rahul Dravid if you need a grown-up to do a job for you
2 minute read Gambhir, Sehwag, Tendulkar and Yuvraj aren’t playing against the West Indies, so there were plenty of chances for India’s up-and-coming batsmen to make their mark. Suresh Raina got 82 in the first innings and Harbhajan 70, but other than that it’s all been eights, twelves and fifteens. But batting’s been
Continue readingPraveen Kumar brings medium-pace back to Test cricket
< 1 minute read We didn’t even recognise Praveen Kumar when we switched on the first Test between the West Indies and India. His is a familiar face, but we’d never seen him in white clothes before. It had also never really occurred to us just how slowly he bowls. While Ishant Sharma’s pace
Continue readingKumar Sangakkara and holes in batting averages
< 1 minute read Building a reputation as a batsman is not unlike being a contestant on the perennially disappointing Nineties game show, The Crystal Maze. You spend your life in the nets, honing your technique and earning crystals and then you get to try and make the most of it in the Crystal
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