< 1 minute read In any working relationship, there’s bound to be a degree of friction. The important thing is that you respect each other and are working towards the same goals. If you have completely different characters, that’s okay, but ideally you’ll have at least one thing in common. Fortunately for the Bangalore
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Tim Bresnan, Yorkshire – one to watch in 2009
2 minute read Tim Bresnan’s 2007 season saw 34 wickets at an average of 32, accompanied by two hundreds and a batting average of 39. His understated 2008 season saw 45 wickets at 28 and 506 runs at 33. It’s solid stuff. He’s an asset to Yorkshire, but he’s not at the stage
Continue readingAn Ian Bell interview
< 1 minute read Ian Bell’s given a monumentally unenlightening interview to the BBC. Summary: ‘I want to play for England’. Towards the end, he says: “I’ve got to make sure that I’m undroppable over the second part of my England career.” You’re undroppable now, Ian. It’s just you’re undroppable in the same way
Continue readingRobert Key so close to England we can almost taste it
< 1 minute read At the moment we can merely smell Rob Key being part of England, but soon – oh so soon – we’ll actually get to taste it. It’ll taste like hand-pulled elixir of life and we’ll quaff it like there’s no tomorrow. This is ironic, because the elixir of life kind
Continue readingAdil Rashid, Yorkshire – one to watch in 2009
< 1 minute read Adil Rashid, eh? Bet you’re blown away by our depth of cricketing knowledge and originality. It’s three years since we first tipped Adil Rashid and it’s the third year he’s been one to watch. It’s probably about time things started happening. By ‘things,’ we of course mean England recognition. Spectral
Continue readingRob Key is about to become England captain
< 1 minute read He is, he is, he is, he is, he is, he is, he is. Rob Key is in England’s provisional 30-man squad for the World Twenty20 tournament, which, considering Andrew Strauss’s absence, puts him in prime position to take up his rightful place as captain/king of England. Most media outlets
Continue readingAndrew Flintoff’s celebrations
< 1 minute read We’re a bit worried about Andrew Flintoff. Not: ‘Oh my God, there’s a badger in the back seat of the car AND HE’S LOOKING RIGHT AT ME’ worried, but worried nonetheless. When he was taking his wickets against the West Indies on Friday, he did some posing. We’re not massively
Continue readingAndrew Flintoff’s hat trick against West Indies
< 1 minute read One-day hat tricks tend to be fun rather than jaw dropping, but it’s still very good to see Andrew Flintoff taking wickets. For all Flintoff’s good bowling, wickets are too rare and there needs to be more of this. We made two rather obvious conclusions after the big man dismissed
Continue readingEngland one day performances against West Indies
< 1 minute read England might not be the best 50 over side and they might not be the best Twenty20 side, but take them on at Fifty46.2, Fifty20 or Twenty-nine29 at your peril. They’re producing stunning performances in some of the newer formats. This evidence is scant enough to draw far reaching conclusions
Continue readingOpening batsmen and the first powerplay
2 minute read The reduced nature of today’s match demanded he play in a different way, but of late England have been playing Andrew Strauss in an ‘anchor’ role as one of their opening batsmen. This seems to be a colossal misunderstanding of one-day cricket in our eyes. The role of the anchor
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