< 1 minute read Ed writes: Please find attached a picture that seems to tick all the boxes. Found it while going through some old pictures yesterday. The kitten was called Mandy and is sadly no longer with us.
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We worry for Alastair Cook’s skin
< 1 minute read He never goes indoors when he’s Down Under. He just stays out on the pitch, day after day, in direct sunlight. We know he’s got sunblock on and everything, but what if he misses a bit. Actually, that’s ridiculous – in Australia, Cook never misses. Arriving with little form and
Continue readingFaf du Plessis – incompetent but not immoral
< 1 minute read We can thank Faf du Plessis for inadvertently giving us the fantastically earnest Cricinfo headline: ‘No zips on cricket kit by 2015’. This brave new world is to be created because he was caught raking the ball across a zip on his kecks, presumably in a bid to rough it
Continue readingWhat’s driving run inflation in one-day cricket
4 minute read Yesterday, the man they used to call Nohit Sharma made a one-day double hundred, but even eight wickets down, Australia seemed in with a chance of chasing their 384 run target. Ludicrous totals seem to have become the norm in one-day internationals (ODIs) and even India’s captain has been complaining
Continue readingOpening fixture of Ashes tour now going swimmingly
< 1 minute read It’s okay. Panic over. England are once again the greatest team in history. That whole ‘going for five an over’ bowling performance is over and the England batting machine is running perfectly. The second day’s play saw England intimidate the Western Australia Chairman’s XI into declaring at 451-5, batsmen eight,
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