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Month: September 2011

September 6, 2011 County cricket

County Championship fever – more evidence

< 1 minute readWe took a walk alongside the canal last night. At one point, a barge went past and the guy at the tiller was clearly SUPER EXCITED about the climax of the County Championship. He just had that air about him. With the next round of matches starting tomorrow, he was

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September 5, 2011 County cricket

The County Championship title race

< 1 minute readUp and down the country, people are SUPER EXCITED about the climax of the County Championship. We were in the supermarket at the weekend and we saw this woman shopping with her kid. You could tell that she was super excited about the County Championship and wanted to make sure

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September 3, 2011 Extras

Nasser Hussain describes one or two India players as ‘donkeys’

< 1 minute readThe BCCI are pissed off because Nasser Hussain said some of the India players were donkeys in the field. British viewers will find the comments below pretty innocuous, because ‘donkey’ is pretty common slang over here when referring to less athletic fielders. We’re guessing the term isn’t used so much

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September 2, 2011 County cricket

Warwickshire and their West Indian batsman

< 1 minute readWarwickshire are well poised in the County Championship and as so often with that competition, you can’t really work out how they got there. They sort of bumbled along there or thereabouts for most of the season and then they SIGNED SHIVNARINE CHANDERPAUL. That’s how it happened. Yes, other people

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September 1, 2011 Australia / Sri Lanka

A good pitch in Galle in Sri Lanka

< 1 minute readWe haven’t seen today’s play in the first Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, but having seen yesterday’s we’re opting to be quietly impressed rather than blown away by Nathan Lyon’s debut, despite the fact that he took 5-34 in Sri Lanka’s first innings. Why? Because he is bowling on

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