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February 28, 2014 Extras

Cricinfo have slightly changed their scorecards

< 1 minute readWe wish they’d warned us. We hate change. We have to prepare for it properly. We needed at least eight weeks’ notice to come to terms with something like this. Look at it! The main bit’s slightly off to the left! We’re used to the main bit being in the

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February 27, 2014 Australia

Ryan Harris versus Lillee’s bag o’ bairns

< 1 minute readIt’s been suggested that this could be Ryan Harris’s last Test. He’s scheduled to have a load of loose knobbles and flakes of bone dug out of his crappy knee shortly after it finishes. Although he’s then got seven months or so to recuperate before Australia’s next Test, he hasn’t

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February 25, 2014 Australia / South Africa

Dissecting ‘momentum’ for the millionth time

< 1 minute readAhead of the third Test between South Africa and Australia, Hashim Amla has said: “There’s a lot riding on the last Test and fortunately we’ve got a bit of momentum.” Let’s very quickly examine how ‘momentum‘ has influenced the series thus far. Australia won the first Test and thus gained

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February 24, 2014 South Africa

Take the next exit and turn around

2 minute readIt was like they were running late, had got onto the motorway heading in the wrong direction and had to race to the next exit so that they could turn round and race back again. Batsman One made 107, Batsman Two made 66 and then the next highest score was

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February 23, 2014 Australia / South Africa

Shaun Marsh holds up South Africa

< 1 minute readNo, he did. One of the three deliveries he faced in this Test match didn’t see the fall of his wicket. He really hung around. When Shaun Marsh was brought back into the Test side, we wrote: “Whether you think he’s good or not largely depends on whether you consider

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February 21, 2014 Australia / South Africa

How Steve Smith makes the most of what he’s got

< 1 minute readWe’ve not actually seen it yet, but we’re hearing great things about Quinton de Kock’s dismissal; that maybe it was the stupidest in a winter which has seen its fair share of stupid dismissals. It’s surely no coincidence that Steve Smith was the bowler. Much is made of the fact

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February 20, 2014 Australia / South Africa

Dean Elgar will probably be out by the time we’ve finished typing this

< 1 minute readCricinfo are making reference to ‘toss drama’ but don’t be misled. The second Test between South Africa and Australia demands your attention in a relentless, whinging, shirt-tugging way. We briefly wondered why we hadn’t really latched onto the Under-19 World Cup or why we didn’t feel moved to write anything

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February 18, 2014 Australia / South Africa

Ryan McLaren out due to brain rattle

2 minute readOrdinarily we don’t report on injuries – and not just because we don’t report on anything in any meaningful sense. However, Ryan McLaren’s rattled brain is more significant in that it will shine a light on the impact Mitchell Johnson has had on the South Africans. We’re not talking about

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February 17, 2014 India / New Zealand

Brendon McCullum and BJ Watling hang around for a bit

< 1 minute readBrendon McCullum is a positive person; the kind of irritating, upbeat character who can’t understand everyone else’s entirely logical can’t-do attitude to things. When he was joined at the crease by BJ Watling in the second Test against India on day three, he’ll have thought: ‘Okay, if we can just

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February 14, 2014 India / New Zealand

MS Dhoni to be investigated for toss fixing

< 1 minute readThat’s a reference to his name cropping up in talk of IPL match fixing and the fact that he’s won 12 international tosses in a row, including all of them on this tour of New Zealand (without yet winning a match). Top tossing, Mahendra. Top tossing. Even if the perfect

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