3 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 26, Australia v Bangladesh
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Andre Russell really isn’t cut out for bowling and he should probably just stop
2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 23, Bangladesh v West Indies
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2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 12, Bangladesh v England
Continue readingNo-one knows where Ross Taylor is supposed to sit
2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 9, Bangladesh v New Zealand
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< 1 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 5, Bangladesh v South Africa
Continue readingThe Jason Roy catch: Has any wicket in the history of cricket featured a greater gulf in quality between bowling and fielding?
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Continue readingImagine being bowled out in less than 18.4 overs in your first innings
2 minute readBangladesh were bowled out in 18.4 overs yesterday. That’s pretty bad, but apparently it wasn’t actually the shortest first innings in Test history. Imagine how bad at cricket you’d have to be to be bowled out inside 18.4 overs. Imagine how embarrassing that must have been. Hopefully, whoever it was,
Continue readingIndia v Bangladesh goes pretty much exactly how everyone expected
< 1 minute readWho would have thought this match would turn out exactly as everyone expected it to? What were the odds on that? Extremely slim, you’d have thought, what with the extraordinary wealth of alternative outcomes. Tamim Iqbal played a good innings and there was reasonable support from one of Bangladesh’s middle-order
Continue readingBritish Weather through to semi-finals of Champions Trophy
< 1 minute readAfter a dominant performance against Australia/New Zealand and a narrow victory over Australia/Bangladesh, the British Weather has booked itself a place in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy. After displaying dreadful, relentlessly sunny form throughout May, UK meteorologists were left fearing that their side would be knocked out during the
Continue readingEngland go with a bit of right-arm fast-medium
2 minute read‘Will four right-arm fast-medium bowlers be sufficient?’ England apparently asked themselves before the opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy. ‘No, better make it five,” they concluded, for reasons that were clear to no-one. It was very odd. One of the few things we said about England’s likely strategy for
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