Stuart MacGill retires

< 1 minute read Stuart MacGill was fun. You never quite knew what to expect from him. He wasn’t erratic in a Shane Warne kind of way. There was a certain consistency in Warne’s back page headlines. MacGill was creatively diverse with his odd behaviour. He would shout at team mates like a nutter.

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Steve Harmison takes a hat trick

< 1 minute read Lolloping ganglatron of mental fragility, Steve Harmison, took a hat-trick against champions Sussex over the weekend. We’re more interested in his opening spell during Sussex’s first innings though, where at one point he’d taken 2-7 off 11 overs. Moping about in county cricket in a state of permanent ill-temper will

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Shiv hits some more hundreds

< 1 minute read Not many people would be undersold by a title like Lord Megachief of Gold, but Shiv is. If you haven’t been paying attention to the West Indies v Australia Test series – it has been clashing with crucial County Championship division two fixtures after all – you’ll not know how

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Rajasthan Royals win IPL off last ball

< 1 minute read It could have turned out calamitously with a damp squib of a final and the wrong team emerging victorious, but the IPL ended well. Rajasthan rightfully triumphed after dominating the league and they did it off the last ball as well. The Rajasthan Ribonucleotides were fined for not spending enough

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Simon Jones is fit and firing

< 1 minute read You’ve got to write these updates when you’ve the chance. We’re a bit worried because we wrote this on Sunday. 24 hours is an eternity when you’re talking about the fitness of Simon Jones. We’ll plough on regardless though. Thus far in the County Championship, Simon Jones has taken 5-92,

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Ricky Ponting has the runs

< 1 minute read He has 10,000 of them in Tests. That’s the way you phrase it, isn’t it? You ‘have’ runs. We’ve already written one update about Ricky Ponting where we referred to ‘rather spectacular motions‘. That was a rather feeble ‘rushed toilet visit’ joke too. If you’re worried that the site’s becoming

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Shaun Marsh in the IPL

< 1 minute read Shaun Marsh has hit five fifties and a hundred in the IPL. He’s streets ahead of anyone else. He’s hit the most runs and he’s averaging 74.12. He’s adding to Kings XI Punjab‘s rich history of great batsmen. The best thing about Shaun Marsh is the way he’s scored his

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