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March 3, 2021 Afghanistan / England / India / New Zealand / Zimbabwe

The Dom Bess situation, Afghanistan on your telly + more | Mop-up of the day

The England men’s team are about to play the fourth Test against India, with Dom Bess apparently set to get another game. Meanwhile the England women’s team have started beating New Zealand in a new format, while Afghanistan and Zimbabwe are trying to get in on the current trend for

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July 31, 2020 England / Ireland

David Willey is out of step with the world

Two examples which highlight how unutterably dreadful David Willey’s timing is. Example one. In March 2019, Sky Sports commentator Ian Ward delivered the definitive expression of incredulity when David Willey opened the bowling against the West Indies in an Alice band. (You may have seen it.) In July 2020, almost

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July 3, 2020 Afghanistan / Features

Can we pause for a moment and try and take stock of Mohammad Nabi’s ridiculous career?

Mohammad Nabi didn’t play for Afghanistan against Scotland in April 2019. Nothing too unusual there. Nabi had been at the IPL, playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad, and they’d qualified for the closing stages. Except it is unusual. It’s highly unusual. It was Afghanistan’s 112th one-day international (ODI) and Mohammed Nabi played

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March 3, 2020 Associates

Thailand are wondering whether the lofted off drive is enough

There are two types of people in this world: people who feel like the weather has denied them a point and people who feel like the weather has secured them a point for a no result. Which ones are optimists? If Thailand see their first T20 World Cup point (secured

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February 28, 2020 Associates

Thailand got a wicket with a loopy leg-side full-bunger

In the third over of Thailand’s match against South Africa, something truly magical happened. Ratanaporn Padunglerd bowled a really, really shit delivery and got a wicket with it. We love wickets off abject filth and this particular abject filth was pure.   In theory, Padunglerd bowls medium-pace, but the speed

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February 22, 2020 Associates / West Indies

Thailand’s first T20 World Cup wicket was a run-out

This was, apparently, highly likely. According to Jrod, women’s cricket features a hell of a lot more run-outs than men’s cricket. The fact that the fielding restrictions keep fielders closer than in the men’s game is a large part of the reason why. It means they get to the ball

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February 20, 2020 Associates

Thailand are playing in the T20 World Cup this week

Have you ever been to Thailand? Thailand’s great. We had garlic prawns on an island called Ko Jum and it was pretty much a 50-50 ratio of those two main ingredients. We did some other stuff too, but that’s the first thing we remember. Top work on the garlic prawns,

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October 29, 2019 Associates

Papua New Guinea have qualified for the World T20. Without looking stuff up, let’s all share everything we know about Papua New Guinea

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July 30, 2019 England / Ireland

Did you see… Stuart Broad bowl Will Porterfield’s pocket out

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July 27, 2019 England / Ireland

England made almost 10 times as many runs as Ireland in the second innings, but that wasn’t really enough, was it?

England v Ireland, only Test, day three

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  • Which of James Anderson’s near-identical reverse-swinging clean bowleds from the same over was the better?
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  • What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket
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Get the DeLorean up to 88mph

A random selection of articles from 2007 onwards.

  • The two very obvious highlights from Pakistan v Australia in Abu Dhabi
  • Momentum has raised its meaningless head
  • Bask in the glorious scene
  • County Championship Round Two – not even going to pretend to pass this off as a preview
  • The South hit the North and the great flattener

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  • What Ben Stokes, Jack Leach and Headingley 2019 tell us about Test cricket
  • Runs don't have a fixed value
  • Play fewer matches
  • Keep the Ashes an 'event'
  • Play on good pitches
  • Why wickets, not runs, are what's important
  • Always play a spinner
  • What is bad light?
  • The second division of the County Championship doesn't count

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