A fun cricket game

< 1 minute read What a match. A victory for cricket being about hitting a ball with a bat as well, not it being about some middle-aged men in suits planning what car to buy next – which is what the game can often feel like these days. Nobody cares about your status symbols,

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Graham or Graeme Swann?

< 1 minute read Graeme Swann’s selection for England has opened up an old, rancid can of worms. Worms of spelling. Spelling worms. To rid the world of these vile spelling worms once and for all, Graeme Swann is a Graeme, not a Graham. Here are some more famous cricketing Grahams/Graemes: Graham Gooch Graeme

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Amjad Khan of Kent, Denmark and now England

< 1 minute read There haven’t been a great many Danish cricketers. We’re not sure Amjad Khan’s exactly a great – but by Danish standards he can’t be far off. Amjad Khan’s what we’d deem a solid practitioner, which smacks of faint praise, but isn’t meant to. It’s actually more an acknowledgement that England

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West Indies fill the gap

< 1 minute read The West Indies will tour England next year, kindly helping the latter fulfill their Sky television obligations. A spokesperson for the West Indies Cricket Board may or may not have said: “We’re honoured to be the ECB’s third choice after Zimbabwe and then Sri Lanka. Since winning the Stanford Twenty20

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