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June 20, 2019 Extras

You can now watch the whole of the rest of the World Cup on Sky Sports for £34 (and you don’t need any extra equipment or anything)

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June 11, 2019 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

City Cricket Battles HTML5 game

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May 30, 2019 Extras

Let’s work out which player is going to throw a massive great wobbler at some point during this World Cup

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May 28, 2019 Match report

What was it like to go and see Hampshire v Somerset in the 2019 Royal London One-Day Cup Final?

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April 25, 2019 Extras

This is a very, very, very fine piece of work

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April 23, 2019 Match report

What was it like to watch New Zealand v South Africa at the Basin Reserve? (a match report)

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March 28, 2019 Match report

A legitimate excuse for missing Warwickshire v Kent in County Championship Division Two last year (a match report)

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March 27, 2019 Extras

We watched the first episode of Cricket Fever, the Mumbai Indians documentary on Netflix. These are the three big highlights

2 minute readCricket Fever is a Netflix documentary about the Mumbai Indians’ 2018 season. So far we’ve only watched the first episode, but we have watched it twice, so you can trust us that these are the big highlights. 1. Every moment of Akash Ambani Akash’s parents, the multi-billionaires Mukesh and Nita

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March 23, 2019 Extras

Dwayne Bravo has a new list-of-things-he-likes-set-to-music out

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March 19, 2019 Regulars

Stumps in a Salford toilet

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    Indeed. Unfortunately, the Italian cricket team has a dearth of players with names that sound like coffee styles. Marcus Campopiano…

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