< 1 minute read Some people think that the West Indies are a team who buckle, like a belt. People think they fold, like a clean pair of trousers. But this West Indies team stood defiantly like a man who can’t find his belt or his trousers and doesn’t care about that fact. He
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Graeme Swann takes five Test wickets
< 1 minute read It’s a big deal. Andrew Flintoff pretty much never manages it and he’s supposed to be the best bowler since the Bowlinator 9000 perfected the 95mph googly. We don’t know for sure whether anyone ever followed our instructions as to how to help Graeme Swann into the England side from
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< 1 minute read If you’re Paul Collingwood, you have to do a little bit more than other batsmen. He’s hit three hundreds in his last nine Test innings, each in a different country and each against a different attack. People will accept that he can stay in the side for another couple of
Continue readingEngland batsmen rack up team scores each
< 1 minute read Alastair Cook, 52. What a Herculean effort. Ordinarily, you’d need 11 men to get anywhere near a score like that. Owais Shah, 57. It’s a number beyond counting. We don’t know how many noughts 57 has, but it must be nearly a million. It’s the biggest number we’ve ever heard
Continue readingThe cost of an abandoned Test
< 1 minute read Real, world-class incompetence in the organisation of an international cricket match is pretty funny to a degree. It makes you feel better about those occasions when you can’t quite manage to write a list AND take it to the supermarket with you. However, it being a bit funny is a
Continue readingPeter Moores: Lancashire coach
< 1 minute read We support Lancashire. You might be wondering how we feel about this. If there’s such a thing as a positive ‘meh’ – then that. He did win the County Championship with Sussex after all. He does have a good track record. Peter Moores’ has Maxonian origins, so this is a
Continue readingWhich England batsman should get dropped
< 1 minute read Alastair Cook Why Because he looks like the kind of person who eats sandwiches with a knife and fork. Why not Because Rob Key’s on the wrong continent. Ian Bell Why Because if international cricket were a cartoon where everyone were an animal, Ian Bell would be the excitable squirrel
Continue readingAndrew Flintoff’s advice for his team mates
< 1 minute read “The spirit’s been good but maybe we need to draw on each other a little bit more.” We used to draw on Chris during maths. At first we pretended to draw on the back of his neck. When he caught on that we were only pretending, we actually drew on
Continue readingEngland 51 all out
< 1 minute read It was put to Alastair Cook that after Adelaide in 2006 and 81 all out in Galle in 2007, England’s batting was having the odd disaster. “If it happens again, then things have to change. But those are three isolated incidents over three years, so it is not as though
Continue readingKevin Pietersen out in the nineties
2 minute read In the first Test, Kevin Pietersen was again dismissed in the nineties going for a big shot to reach his hundred. He did the same against South Africa over the summer. There are a number of people (Nasser Hussain’s one) who are angry at Pietersen for this. They say he
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