< 1 minute read It seemed about time that Misbah-ul-Haq hit a Test hundred. One fifty wasn’t much of a Test record for someone we seem to write about on an almost daily basis. He hit 161 not out against India, largely in partnership with Kamran Akmal who hit 119. Akmal’s innings should ensure
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Muttiah Muralitharan’s 709th Test wicket
2 minute read It was Paul Collingwood. We’re sure he’s delighted with the honour. Muttiah Muralitharan is now the top Test wicket-taker of all time. Murali’s had this record before of course, but no-one playing at present seems at all likely to overtake him, so we’ll assume that on this occasion, it’ll be
Continue readingLike Matthew Hoggard’s never been away
< 1 minute read Matthey Hoggard says nobody’s a dead cert for the England team. We’d dispute that. Matthew Hoggard’s a dead cert, surely. Today he took four top order wickets for just 29 runs and it’s like he’s never been away. We’ve missed Matthew Hoggard (he was injured over the summer) and we’ve
Continue readingZimbabwe not quite so bad, West Indies still really rather bad indeed
2 minute read Zimbabwe have beaten the West Indies. As the result loomed, we were asked whether we were going to paint it as a Zimbabwean improvement or ‘the usual’. ‘The usual’ is of course when we say that if you so much as lose a wicket against Zimbabwe, you’re the worst cricketers
Continue readingWasim Jaffer gets a big hundred
< 1 minute read Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar were fairly predictable thorns in Sohail Tanvir’s side, but Wasim Jaffer was a thorn the size of a pickaxe handle. Jaffer actually made his Test debut back in 2000, when he was looked on as the latest great batsman from Mumbai, the town that brought
Continue readingSohail Tanvir is Pakistan’s ‘go to’ bowler
< 1 minute read Because if you go to anyone else, you have to enter an isolation unit and get decontaminated afterwards. We don’t know for definite, but we imagine that Sohail Tanvir’s in a bad mood. Sohail’s one quarter of a four-man attack and one of the other quarters, Shoaib Akhtar, has got
Continue readingSourav Ganguly looking really quite pissed off
< 1 minute read While wearing a stupid hat. [This post used to contain a picture of Sourav wearing an East 17 hat while signing autographs at this point. Annoyingly, we can’t find it now.] No joke. We just really like this picture. Don’t make eye contact, Sourav. Write something dismissive as well. That’ll
Continue readingOpen verdict on Bob Woolmer’s death
< 1 minute read You could have guessed, couldn’t you? Bob Woolmer’s death has veered from sad to sickening and back to merely sad again. It was to be expected that no real conclusions would be drawn. We’re going to put most weight by the part where they say that there was ‘insufficient evidence
Continue readingNo Holds Barred Cricket
< 1 minute read No Holds Barred Cricket is a form rarely played these days. It was introduced in the mid-Nineties as a means of injecting a little bit more excitement into the one-day game. Rather frighteningly and contradictorily, the rules are ‘there are no rules’. No Holds Barred Cricket featured large amounts of
Continue readingDale Steyn’s bowling speed
2 minute read We remember Dale Steyn’s Test debut. For his first wicket, he arced a yorker into Marcus Trescothick‘s middle stump. Not bad. While he touched 90mph during that Test, it was rare and we sort of put him to the back of our mind in our mental draw marked ‘South African
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