< 1 minute read Suave thinks he’s spotted something: Thoughts?
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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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Darren Lehmann retires
2 minute read Darren Lehmann was twice the batsman Mike Hussey is. That’s not a fat joke, nor is it meant as a put-down for Hussey, who we rate very highly – it’s just that Darren Lehmann was magic. Some players have a really good season where they stand head and shoulders above
Continue readingAustralia uncharacteristically fail to drive home their advantage
2 minute read Sri Lanka have got two really top drawer batsmen, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, and both have scored hundreds in this second Test. That’s more top-drawer batsmen than most teams have, but unfortunately Australia aren’t most teams. Andrew Symonds is making up the numbers a bit, but they’re otherwise pretty
Continue readingJacques Kallis, interesting?
< 1 minute read We don’t know what’s going on here. There we were idly reading a short piece about New Zealand quick, Mark Gillespie, when suddenly the writer makes the most outrageous claim imaginable. Will from The Corridor – who knows what he’s on about – describes Jacques Kallis as ‘dazzling’. ‘Dazzling’ is
Continue readingAustralia opt not to deviate from the template
< 1 minute read Australia bat first and all but remove any chance of a Sri Lankan win by the end of the first day. On the second day they drive home their advantage before declaring at about 550 allowing them a few overs at the Sri Lankan openers. That was the first Test
Continue readingMike Hussey: statistically aberrant and statistically abhorrent
< 1 minute read What? You didn’t think we’d come up with something like that and only use it the once. No way. Statistically aberrant and statistically abhorrent – it’s got a rhythm to it AND it makes sense. At least it does so far. When you’ve read it for the 500th time, all
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar tries to camouflage his brilliance
< 1 minute read Well we’re onto you, young Sachin Tendulkar. Just because some young tyro hasn’t learned to turn fifties into hundreds, doesn’t mean we won’t spot real talent when it stares us in the face. This lad’s one to watch. India beat Pakistan in the fourth one-day international and in so doing
Continue readingAn open letter to Kent’s online shop
< 1 minute read Dear Kent, Instead of selling ‘Spitfires geometry sets’ and Kent clipboards, phone-chargers and ‘golf towels’, why not stock a few Rob Key mugs? Eh? Maybe make a bob or two. We’ve even come up with a new motto for you all as you busy yourselves putting non-resilient transfers of Rob
Continue readingRob Key to continue as Kent captain
< 1 minute read Not news exactly, more the reporting of the status quo, but if you’re the kind of website that publishes pictures of Rob Key as a pie in the sky, then you’re the kind of website that reports on the status quo – insofar as it relates to Rob Key. Kent’s
Continue readingBowlers forced to wrap their fingers round pink balls
< 1 minute read There are some things you just have to do and making a ‘pink balls’ joke is one of those things. Pink balls are going to be tested in second XI matches next year with a view to using them in Twenty20 cricket the following summer and in one-day internationals after
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