< 1 minute readWe know you don’t like it when we don’t have an opinion on something. It’s not that we’re fence-sitting, it’s that in reality we don’t have all that many opinions. We wander through life indecisive and directionless and we’ve done that since before we went to school. Opinions occasionally find
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Otherwise known as Alex Bowden, a lapsed cricket journalist who has written for ESPNCricinfo, wisden.com, Cricket 365, The Cricketer and plenty of other places.
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Ricky Ponting strives for coherence
< 1 minute read“I guess we speak pretty loosely, don’t we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that – and we are, but it’s not with both eyes. We’ve got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we’re the best
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< 1 minute readWith England winning the World Twenty20 at about the time it went live, we forgot to point out this article we did for Cricinfo about momentum. We did two pieces for Cricinfo around that time. One we were quite proud of; the other we weren’t really. Having just read the
Continue readingScotland v Kent match report
2 minute readDandy Dan wanted to include whispering to Amjad Khan that his was one of the worst debut performances for England that he’d seen, but felt that was far too much to do with the cricket. Instead, he writes: The day started with a feeling of the unknown. I’d invited a
Continue readingSteven Finn should fall over in a lot of Tests
< 1 minute readIf there’s one thing we like, it’s people who fall over a lot. With that in mind, we’re calling for Steven Finn to be inked into the England Test team for the forseeable future. We already knew that Finn was an accurate bowler from what we saw in Bangladesh, but
Continue readingShould Tim Bresnan be in England’s Test team?
2 minute readAs a bowler, it’s hard to see what Tim Bresnan offers that no-one else can. He’s a bit of a poor man’s Jimmy Anderson: a fractionally slower, slightly less sophisticated swing bowler who’s not quite as fit as the Burnley Express. Set against that, he was England’s best bowler in
Continue readingTamim Iqbal is in good Test form
< 1 minute readTamim Iqbal has passed 50 in nine of his last 11 Test innings. Considering how he tends to start his innings – hacking away at every ball like he’s a Thracian gladiator de-limbing adversaries – that’s pretty remarkable. Virender Sehwag is probably a role model, but with Sehwag, you rarely
Continue readingJonathan Trott hit a hundred against Bangladesh – what does it say?
< 1 minute readA few people will say that Jonathan Trott‘s 175 not out at Lord’s means nothing, because it’s against Bangladesh. Slightly fewer people will say he’s proving he’s a Test batsman after an ordinary winter. Why go to extremes? Jonathan Trott’s guts and technique could have been tested more, but his
Continue readingTibet v England match report
3 minute readGed Ladd writes: When you arrange to go on holiday to Yunnan Province in South West China, you don’t expect much in the way of a cricket experience. Daisy and I ended up in a village named Ringha in the high hills of Yunnan, otherwise known as Greater Tibet. There,
Continue readingStephen Moore and Sajid Mahmood
< 1 minute readDurham aren’t the only team who are currently muddling by with about one and a half batsmen. Lancashire’s current mediocrity is largely due to a batting order that starts at six with Steven Croft and ends at seven with Glen Chapple. Actually, that’s not fair. Sajid Mahmood has been playing
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