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Month: June 2023

June 15, 2023 England

Know your Bazball – an illustrated guide

2 minute readAre you settling in for the Ashes and finding yourself a bit perplexed by all the ‘Bazball’ talk? If you’re struggling to know what is and isn’t Bazball and don’t want to embarrass yourself by making a faux pas – fear not! Simply consult our short and informative illustrated guide…

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June 15, 2023 Australia / England

Now TV might work out the cheapest way to watch the Ashes if all you really want to watch is the cricket

2 minute readIf you’re in the UK and you want to watch the Ashes, Now TV is probably your cheapest legal option. (If you sign up as a ‘new customer’ via any of the links on this page, we’ll get a small cut. Update: No, turns out we don’t actually. Apparently we

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June 14, 2023 Australia / England

10 things to watch out for during the Ashes

7 minute readThe 2023 Ashes is almost here! And you’re not ready! You think you are, but you aren’t. You don’t know what to watch out for. But don’t worry, we’ve done the hard work for you and come up with this list. You need to watch out for these things… 1.

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June 12, 2023 Australia / India

Maybe they should have a World Test Championship Final Premier League

2 minute readThe legitimacy of the World Test Championship was this week dealt a severe blow with Australia’s victory over India in the final. Throughout the civilised world, right-thinking people looked at the result and concluded that the format of the competition should probably be different somehow if this is the kind

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June 9, 2023 Australia / India

Did Steve Smith find his hands in Sussex?

2 minute readSteve Smith’s run-scoring apparently depends on whether he does or does not know the whereabouts of his own hands. Given Smith didn’t make it out of the foothills in India but then made a hundred in the World Test Championship final, we can only presume he happened across them again

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June 7, 2023 Australia / India

Hayden and Langer are offering their ‘insights’ on commentary during the World Test Championship final

< 1 minute readIf there was one thing that was highly awful about Test cricket in the early 2000s, it was having to endure Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer opening the batting for Australia. Then they retired and how we rejoiced. Only now Test cricket is even worse because they’re still around and

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June 5, 2023 England / Ireland

Ireland now and then and maybe again

3 minute readWhen England first played Ireland in a Test match four years ago, we had visions of it becoming an annual fixture with a slowly developing history. We’ve followed England cricket long enough to know there was pretty much zero chance that would happen, but the prospect has only seemed more

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June 2, 2023 England / Ireland

Is Zak Crawley the most gifted inside-edger in world cricket?

2 minute readWe put it to you that if Zak Crawley wants to make it as a Test batter, he should restrict himself to using only the inside edge of his bat. Because honestly, he’s absolutely nailed this underappreciated method of run-scoring. Three times in two overs, Zak Crawley inside-edged a four

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  1. Mike on Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrongDecember 19, 2025

    Agree. It's the best coverage of the best coverage. Top work as ever.

  2. Buttface on Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrongDecember 19, 2025

    There are other means of watching the test matches live (TNT and Fox Sports - I splutter on the last,…

  3. Mike on Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrongDecember 19, 2025

    At least if Alex Carey reaches three figures tomorrow he won't be the first player to register 100 in both…

  4. Ged Ladd on Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrongDecember 19, 2025

    Yup. The same Oz broadcaster that deems Snicko adequate. The thought of counting Aussie batsmen’s nose hairs might well put…

  5. King Cricket on Still no Shoaib Bashir then. Do you remember when Ben Stokes used to back his spinners?December 19, 2025

    Yeah, we guess the sticking with players regardless of form has persisted - except for the one player, Bashir, who…

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