< 1 minute read The players, the coaches, the fans and the media told England that they needed to be making 350-plus scores to do well in this tournament. The 2015 World Cup wasn’t just going to be about run-scoring; it was going to be about phenomenal, unimaginable run-scoring. Look at what India are
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Hat-tricks are handy
< 1 minute read This and other insights in our latest piece for the Mumbai Mirror which is about the South African team, why it’s good and why it’s bad. For all that the Saffers have some great batsmen and a strong pace attack, there’s also another version of the side that’s fragile with
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< 1 minute read A proper journalist would have crunched the numbers. We didn’t because it would have been really boring and the results might have disproven our theory that more batsmen are being clean bowled at this World Cup. The Mumbai Mirror have called the piece Bowled and beautiful back in fashion, which
Continue readingQuasi-nepotism and the murky lens of hindsight – England’s MD and national selector appraised
2 minute read We’ve written about just what a monumental achievement it was for England to get knocked out in the group stages. The more we think about it, the more we’re impressed at how they managed to prevent even one cylinder from firing. There is talk that Paul Downton may get the
Continue readingWill Porterfield has been annoyed
< 1 minute read Our latest column for the Mumbai Mirror is about the unextinguishable rage of Ireland captain, Will Porterfield. You may notice that the column is titled ‘Bowzzzat!’ and they used the same line when flagging our piece on yesterday’s front page. For clarity, our name is Bowden as in ‘bow tie’
Continue readingDashed on the Eden Park rocks
< 1 minute read The Mumbai Mirror – formerly the Bombay Bathroom Mirror – stuck our picture on the front page this morning. And not even for some sort of crime. Out of merit. Or out of perceived merit at any rate. It’s all rather unnerving. Today’s piece is about Eden Park and how
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< 1 minute read We appear to write a column for the Mumbai Mirror. We heard that this might happen as long ago as yesterday, so you’re not much behind with this. Here’s our first piece for them. It’s about how England will go about developing a template for success at the 2019 World
Continue readingBreaking 2019 World Cup format news
< 1 minute read Somewhere, in a dark, neglected, cobweb-strewn corner of the Cricinfo homepage, an article of ours was briefly accessible. You may have missed it because Mark Nicholas was hogging all the prime real e-state. The article in question is about the format of the World Cup – same as all cricket
Continue readingWhy the world no longer truly understands the majesty of Shahid Afridi
< 1 minute read We watched a bunch of sixes today. Well, we say ‘watched’. What we actually mean is that we heard commentators overreacting to sixes while writing something. We didn’t look up once. We live in a different world, nowadays. We’ve tried to take you back to the old one in our
Continue readingUnity, leadership not a problem – Holder
< 1 minute read We’re thinking about getting more into uninspired, derivative headlines. This is what we’d have gone with for our latest Cricinfo piece. And while we’re linking, it’s also just occurred to us that we never pointed you towards the latest king added to our pantheon over at All Out Cricket. This
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