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March 27, 2019 Extras

We watched the first episode of Cricket Fever, the Mumbai Indians documentary on Netflix. These are the three big highlights

2 minute readCricket Fever is a Netflix documentary about the Mumbai Indians’ 2018 season. So far we’ve only watched the first episode, but we have watched it twice, so you can trust us that these are the big highlights. 1. Every moment of Akash Ambani Akash’s parents, the multi-billionaires Mukesh and Nita

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March 23, 2019 Extras

Dwayne Bravo has a new list-of-things-he-likes-set-to-music out

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March 19, 2019 Regulars

Stumps in a Salford toilet

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March 9, 2019 Australia / Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii / England

Rejoice! Cricket 19 is coming out on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch and player likenesses are still slightly funny

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March 7, 2019 Extras

Does Harry Kane know how to hold a cricket bat?

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February 19, 2019 Extras

Books to read at the cricket? The Price of Fish by Ian Harris and Michael Mainelli

2 minute readGed Ladd writes: Disclosure: One of The Price Of Fish’s authors, Ian Harris, is my nom d’actualité. I had been invited by the London School of Economics for a video interview around some of the subject matter in the award-winning book, The Price of Fish, A New Approach to Wicked

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February 12, 2019 Extras / Features

Are you David Lloyd’s unoccupied hand when Nasser Hussain is answering a question? Because we are

5 minute readOver time, we’ve become more and more fascinated with one of David Lloyd’s hands. It is the one that hangs by his side when Ian Ward interviews himself and Nasser Hussain at the end of each day’s play on Sky Sports. It is not the one that holds the microphone.

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February 4, 2019 Australia / Extras

Unofficial snack food of the Australian national cricket team

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February 2, 2019 Bangladesh / Extras

The 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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February 1, 2019 Extras

Now TV might work out cheaper if cricket’s all you want to watch on Sky Sports

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