< 1 minute read Jason wrote to us to draw our attention to his robust, adult, cricket/crime online novel that he’s writing. Anyone launching themself into a venture like that deserves a link. It’s called The Curly Situation. WARNING: The novel does contain a reference to Flock of Seagulls.
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Andre Nel has a request
< 1 minute read Flex your typing fingers. Get them good and supple. You have quite simply GOT to have some comments about this quote from Andre Nel: “When the fans go hard and abuse you, I love that.” That’s a direct quote from a BBC interview. Apparently he said it ‘with a glint
Continue readingAjantha Mendis sorts everything out
< 1 minute read Sanath Jayasuriya might have pummelled a trademark hundred, but Ajantha Mendis won Sri Lanka the Asia Cup. If you want to see some impressive bowling figures, read on: 6-13 off eight overs. Virender Sehwag had hit a 26-ball fifty when Mendis came on to bowl, so the young spinner basically
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< 1 minute read Ajantha Mendis’s ‘carrom ball’ does look to be pretty much a new delivery. Inventing a new delivery is a pretty brash thing to do. It’s almost like discovering a new colour or introducing a new letter into the alphabet. We should have all the deliveries already – cricket’s been around
Continue readingLate and half-hearted Friends Provident Trophy semi-final reporting
< 1 minute read Joe Denly hit a hundred. Go No Pants. Steve Harmison took four wickets. Durham still lost by a mile. Essex beat Yorkshire. The end.
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< 1 minute read That’s ‘The Wisden Cricketer’ to you. We won’t link to every piece of ours that appears on their blog, but we thought that today’s was ‘all right’ – and that’s a real high water mark for us. It’s more about Neil McKenzie. We don’t feel like everyone really got into
Continue readingEngland v New Zealand, Bristol one-day international match report
2 minute read Mel writes: The scene was set. Both sides had prepared for battle. The protagonists eyed each other with a sense of anticipation – who would triumph today? I talk not of the 22 men in pyjamas, but of a far more absorbing contest. Crowd v Stewards. Lengthy delay at security
Continue readingThe REAL news about England’s selection announcement
< 1 minute read Andrew Flintoff, Simon Jones, Darren Pattinson, Tim Bresnan. How bloody wide of the mark can the mainstream media get? Very. That’s how wide. There’s the mark and… …there… that’s where they are. Wide and perhaps a little bit low as well. The real news is of course His inclusion in
Continue readingMartin van Jaarsveld thrives under his captain
< 1 minute read Not literally under his captain. That would be painful, even allowing for Rob Key’s new, racing snake physique. Against Surrey, Martin van Jaarsveld hit two unbeaten hundreds and took 5-33, even though he’d never taken more than two wickets in an innings before. When asked what precipitated this rare spell
Continue readingFor this forfeit, you get a drawn Test
< 1 minute read Umpires accuse Pakistan of ball-tampering. Pakistan refuse to play in protest. After an investigation, Pakistan are found not guilty of ball tampering, but Inzy is banned for keeping his side off the field, so they’re saying that while he was right, he was also wrong. Now the match is being
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