2 minute read If you didn’t know it already, “it’s not my fault, I asked someone else to do it for me” is not a legitimate defence for failing to tell dope testers where you’re going to be. Andre Russell has therefore been handed a one-year ban. If that sounds harsh, consider that
Continue readingMonth: January 2017
Mop-up of the long weekend – SHIV!
2 minute read We’ve been away. We’re not really up to speed. Thanks to Roscoe H Spellgood, we know that speed equals distance over time, so we suppose that we’ll just sit around for a while and hope that we recover the ground. Doubtless you can help us out by providing a few
Continue readingEngland v Pakistan at Old Trafford – match report
2 minute read We went to the second Test between England and Pakistan. It was one of your ‘on and off’ type days where the line between raining and not raining becomes blurred. Having greatly enjoyed the timeless rope dragging technique at Bristol earlier in the summer, we were interested to see whether
Continue readingLancashire’s Tom Smith succumbs to chronic back knack
< 1 minute read If we weren’t actually first off the mark in lauding Tom Smith, we were there or thereabouts. He elicited that laudery by taking 3-29 on the first day of the 2006 season. Fortunately for us, Smith actually made his debut a year before, so we’re still not yet at the
Continue readingAndre Russell might actually find out whether he’s going to be banned from cricket next week
2 minute read If you’ve a decent memory, you might remember that Andre Russell had a possible two-year ban from cricket hanging over him after being unavailable for three doping tests during a 12-month period back in 2015. ‘Oh yeah,’ you may think. ‘What happened with that in the end?’ Well, the answer
Continue readingEngland will pray for nip or tail at the Champions Trophy
2 minute read The early stages of England’s one-day cricket revolution saw the team transform from one that scored about 250 on average to one that score about 250 on average. The difference was in the range. They went from making 240-260 and losing every game to making 100-400 and winning half the
Continue readingEXCLUSIVE! Rob Key’s position on snow revealed!
< 1 minute read And by ‘exclusive’ we mean that we reported information that was already publicly available for a third party before pointing you towards it from here. This week’s Twitter round-up has just gone up on Cricinfo. Critics are calling it ‘recently published and currently without comments’. Needless to say, we’ve led
Continue readingWhy waste your best bowler in the final over?
< 1 minute read The idea that England might try and bounce out Virat Kohli proved as wide of the mark as a Devon Malcolm loosener. They decided to pepper him with half-volleys instead. And it worked. They adopted a similar method against Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni, occasionally mixing things up with a
Continue readingAB de Villiers slowly coming to terms with Test retirement
< 1 minute read Very slowly. He’s not yet at a point where he’ll accept that his final Test was in January last year. Earlier this week, de Villiers made himself unavailable for selection for the upcoming Test series in New Zealand in March. Today he ruled himself out of the Test series against
Continue readingShakib al Hasan’s Test double hundred and its perfect ending
< 1 minute read Sometimes we forget that you haven’t all been reading this website since day dot. It’s been over a decade since we tipped Shakib al Hasan for greatness so chances are a great many of you won’t know what a big deal it is that he made a Test double hundred
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