2 minute read AB de Villiers is very good. We’re pretty sure most of you will agree with that insightful assessment. But where do we see him at his best? We can think of five immediately obvious environments in which AB de Villiers might be seen. In a music video Just sort of
Continue reading< 1 minute read Jonny Bairstow had made 104 runs off 59 balls when this happened. Two things to note. One, the bail is illuminated. Two, the position of Bairstow’s back foot. Pondering the former with reference to the latter, you might like to consider the path his bat took. Still, the job was
Continue reading< 1 minute read County cricket doesn’t get enough media coverage that it can get away with resting players. That’s the two-second version of the point I’m making over at Wisden. Whether they say as much or not, counties rotate their squads. There are two problems with this. 1. It makes teams shitter There
Continue reading< 1 minute read We all feel that we know it when we see it, but what exactly is dibbly-dobbly medium pace? Is it just non-spin bowling of a certain velocity (less than 75mph, say)? Or is it something more specific than that. When we asked people to identify the greatest dibbly-dobbly medium-pace bowler
Continue reading< 1 minute read “This game is not over until you get Kane Williamson out,” said Nasser Hussain when the New Zealand captain reached his fifty. Entirely untrue. England never did get him out, but still won. Kane Williamson scored getting on for a quarter of the runs in the match. No-one else passed
Continue reading< 1 minute read “The Tour has allowed us to learn a great deal about the players….” That’s good. Learning is good. Knowledge is power and all that. “… but the results are obviously extremely disappointing.” Imagine how you’d feel having Andy Flower express his disappointment in you. Andy Flower strikes us as being
Continue reading< 1 minute read It’s only a warm-up match, but it seems that like much of western Europe, the West Indies still have plenty of warming to do. They’re so cold that you wouldn’t be surprised to learn that they’ve suffered a burst pipe or two once they actually thaw. They were bowled out
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