< 1 minute readTo be in with a chance of winning one of 10 copies of Out of the Ashes on DVD, simply name a non-Test-playing nation and in 50 words or fewer explain how you would get them to the 2015 World Cup. Funniest and most colourful answers win. Don’t put your
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Out of the Ashes | DVD review
2 minute readOut of the Ashes is a documentary about the Afghanistan cricket team’s joyously ludicrous journey from war to the Twenty20 World Cup. Have you ever watched a film and felt completely and utterly unmoved by the most spectacular action sequences because you don’t care one bit about the characters in
Continue readingNot enough Blu-Tack in cricket
< 1 minute readYou know it and we know it too. Thankfully, there’s a little bit of Blu-Tack on the Wisden Cricketer blog at the moment. The bit where some of the Blu-Tack looks sad is a high point.
Continue readingLondon Tigers tour to Bangladesh – joke needed
< 1 minute readLondon Tigers are sending a team to tour Bangladesh at the same time as the World Cup. London Tigers help underprivileged youths, so we’re having a hard time coming up with a joke for today’s post. Maybe something about them being better than England? Is there something in that? You’re
Continue readingBacklift | batting lessons
< 1 minute readAs the bowler runs in, lift the bat backwards in the direction of the stumps. Keep raising the bat until you feel glad. If you start to feel depressed and resentful, your bat is too high. Ensure your shoulder rolls counter-topwise at the moment the bat reaches its highest point
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< 1 minute readSpace your feet roughly shoulder width apart. Stand side-on to the bowler on the balls of your feet but evenly balanced, pressing forward with your weight moving counter-crosswise while remaining perfectly still. Bend your knees to the extent that you feel euphoric. Try and project a high-minded yet magnanimous air
Continue readingOur reasons for starting a cricket school
< 1 minute readWe’ve just watched the fourth one-day international between Australia and England. England won, but we still haven’t got anything to say. We’re assuming this situation will persist, so to ensure that we can put up a post each day, we’re starting a new section of the site which is called
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Continue readingIndia v Australia Bangalore Test match report
3 minute readRitesh writes: It was my last day as a Bangalore resident – I was saying goodbye to the city after calling it home for seven years. It was a time for quiet reflection, for spending quality time with friends and eventually for inebriated celebration. Time, in other words, for a
Continue readingAndrew Hilditch article with sandwiches in it
< 1 minute readWe wrote a wilfully opaque piece about Australia’s chief selector for Cricinfo which doesn’t once mention cricket. We like to do the mass appeal crowd-pleasing stuff. We think it’s quite good though. One of our better ones. We wrote it drunk, which has led to some pretty revolutionary ideas about
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