Over time, we’ve become more and more fascinated with one of David Lloyd’s hands. It is the one that hangs by his side when Ian Ward interviews himself and Nasser Hussain at the end of each day’s play on Sky Sports. It is not the one that holds the microphone.
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The Tamperer was an Italian dance music act. They had a number one with Feel It. The most memorable element of Feel It was that the bridge section (there wasn’t really a chorus) went: “What’s she gonna look like with a chimney on her?” There you go. There’s a nice
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The story of international cricket in 2018 is really just all the stuff that happened with Australia. This seems a bit narrow and exclusive for an end-of-year retrospective, so we thought we’d instead focus on all the funny things that happened in 2018 to try and broaden it out a
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In 2018, the ICC released a promotional video for the 2019 World Cup. It starred Freddie Flintoff (definitely Freddie and not Andrew or Andy in this instance) and you can still find it on YouTube here. We have a bunch of questions about it. Is this what Fred does now?
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Captain of his country, the best batsman in the world, tens of millions of social media followers and filthy rich – what is it like to be Virat Kohli? Well barring some sort of Freaky Friday body swap development, we’re just going to have to try and imagine. But we
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The 2019 IPL is getting underway. It is the 12th edition. Last year we took a look at whether the IPL deserved it reputation. This is that article. Back in 2008 the IPL was a bombastic upstart that threw huge sums of money at all the big name players. Now
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AB de Villiers is very good. We’re pretty sure most of you will agree with that insightful assessment. But where do we see him at his best? We can think of five immediately obvious environments in which AB de Villiers might be seen. In a music video Just sort of
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