< 1 minute read We were there, looking at a Cricinfo scorecard, waiting for the number to change. That’s how people watch cricket these days, right? That’s how we experience these supposedly momentous events. We think we speak for most people when we say that we’re glad that’s out of the way. A hundred
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Doing the decent thing
< 1 minute read There’s not enough gentlemanly conduct in cricket any more. We don’t mean fair play when we say that. We mean proper, Victorian gentlemanly conduct. Back in Victorian times, life was about doing the decent thing. It was especially important to do the decent thing if it required an extraordinary amount
Continue readingEnglish players in the heat and humidity of Sri Lanka
< 1 minute read We’ve read a couple of things today about how English players will struggle with the heat and humidity in Sri Lanka. Graham Gooch described the conditions as ‘unnatural,’ which isn’t strictly accurate. It strikes us that English cricketers should buck their ideas up. Sri Lanka may well be hot and
Continue readingChasing Sachin by Adam Carroll-Smith | book review
< 1 minute read We’re pretty sure we were meant to get this review up in time for Christmas. Hopefully Adam won’t mind. From reading his book, he seems like the kind of guy who’d understand failure to complete a relatively straightforward task. That happens quite frequently in Chasing Sachin. Not that Adam’s main
Continue readingEngland retain the number one Test spot in fine style
< 1 minute read New Zealand drew with South Africa because it pissed it down on the last day. As a result, the Saffers cannot secure the 3-0 series win they would need to become the top-ranked Test side. This is a highlight. This is better than a Test championship. England have retained the
Continue readingRahul Dravid: the barometer of class
3 minute read Looking through the archives, we’ve written surprisingly little about Rahul Dravid. Many of his best innings predate the site and also – partly as a result of that – we’ve always just assumed that everyone knew how good he was. Forward defensives They call him The Wall. It’s meant as
Continue readingVernon Philander is still having a fine old time
< 1 minute read We had suggested that a few away Tests would see Vernon Philander’s bowling average swell like a space hopper at altitude. What we hadn’t considered was that Philander’s first away Tests would be in New Zealand. You get some good Test matches in New Zealand. The home side have secured
Continue readingA half-arsed history of the Stanford Super Series
< 1 minute read Allen Stanford’s been found guilty of greed of the highest order so we thought we’d provide a few links to our coverage of his shitty cricket event from 2008. How we didn’t give a toss One reason why we didn’t give a toss A way we could have been made
Continue readingHow many CB Series finals are there?
< 1 minute read The CB Series features three finals. This fact led to Mark Taylor saying something almost transcendentally stupid while commentating on the second one. To be fair to Tubby, it wasn’t his fault that what he said was stupid, because it actually made sense. It’s the fact that this phrase can
Continue readingOld cricketer to retire in the future
< 1 minute read That’s the big news today. Cricinfo have revealed that 35-year-old Mark Boucher is thinking about maybe stopping playing. Possibly even fairly soon. Boucher said: “I would like to go England and then start a process of trying to get another keeper involved.” He didn’t even include a ‘maybe’. “After England
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