< 1 minute read If you don’t, it looks like this. And before that earned the title of ‘worst picture of all time’ there was this. Both horrendous. Both making our spine do odd things even as they sit in unviewed tabs in our web browser. Perhaps inspired by the fox-based horror in that
Continue readingMonth: October 2011
Winning the Ashes Down Under by Andrew Strauss with Simon Hughes
2 minute read One of our jobs is to read all the cricket news. As a result of this, cricket books covering recent events aren’t all that appealing to us. When we’re presented with familiar information, our brain tends to drift off and do something else, leaving our eyes to do the reading
Continue readingBall of the century and Lara’s 400
< 1 minute read How many times does something have to appear to qualify as a regular feature? If it’s twice, we have a regular feature at Cricinfo. It is about two idiot commentators commentating like idiots. It is called Stu and Ash. The first instalment was about Shane Warne’s ball of the century.
Continue readingWho should England drop? Who will fix the team?
2 minute read England will be tempted to screw up their one-day plans and start again, but that would be the wrong move. There’s a reason why people talk about building a side. It’s because there’s no perfect, fully-formed team that’s just waiting to be compiled through correct selection. But what about [insert
Continue readingHome advantage in cricket
< 1 minute read We’re a great fan of home advantage. It’s a key part of cricket. If matches between two teams were likely to have the same outcome both home and away then the sport would lose a significant quality. It also means that away wins are even more significant. England’s victory in
Continue readingHow to bat in one-day cricket
< 1 minute read Here is our one-day batting philosophy – take it or leave it. It is not scientific. We are not scientific. We’ve never even owned a lab coat. To us, one-day batting works like this. Try and hit a single If it’s asking for it, try and hit a four That’s
Continue readingSuresh Raina is getting nowhere fast
2 minute read You’d think you’d be more convinced about a player after he’d hit 80 off 62 balls in a one-day match. At worst, you’d think you’d feel the same about him. Yet somehow Suresh Raina actually managed to erode our confidence in him. This despite the fact that we said India
Continue readingEnglish cricket consciousness
< 1 minute read All Indians and Australians believe that everyone in England thinks the same thing. (Do you see what we did with that sentence?) We’d just like to refute this. If you see an article in the Telegraph that says England are going to dominate world cricket forever, it is important to
Continue readingWhy England shouldn’t drop Jade Dernbach
2 minute read We’ve spent the day badmouthing Jade Dernbach and we’ve previously written that his ‘variations’ often blind people to his deficiencies, but despite both of those things, we still don’t think England should drop him. Why? He’s shit No, he isn’t. Calm down. Jade may have looked pretty shit while bowling
Continue readingThree things that would help England win in India
< 1 minute read For all their progress and despite all their resources, England still can’t compete in one-day cricket in India. We’ve thought of three things that would help their cause. 1. Hire a scientist It’s staggering to think that England don’t have a scientist on their staff. We’re not talking about nutrionists
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