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What’s it like to watch cricket at Galle? (Sri Lanka v South Africa match report)
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Continue readingOn Cricket by Mike Brearley – book review
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Books to read at the cricket? How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff
2 minute readOur Books to read at the cricket? feature involves readers (let’s be honest, mostly Ged) trying to work out whether or not books are suitable for reading between balls and overs when attending a cricket match. Regular correspondent Ged Ladd writes: I was reminded of this wonderful little book, How
Continue readingThe good and bad points of the official song for the 2018 ICC Women’s World T20
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Continue readingA Middlesex Second XI v Lancashire Second XI match report (from 2016)
2 minute readGed writes: The best laid plans, eh? My plan for the day was to have a real tennis lesson at 10am and stay to watch the finale of the Middlesex v Durham match. But Middlesex decided to bring an end to those proceedings the day before. Plan B. Real tennis
Continue readingA review of Afghanistan career mode in Cricket Captain 2018
3 minute readBack when we reviewed Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode, we said we’d also do a thing on playing a career as Afghanistan. This is that thing. For a more comprehensive look at the mechanics of Cricket Captain 2018, see our review of the 2017 game (it’s fundamentally the same).
Continue readingA near-streak match report from Lord’s from when England played India
2 minute readEdwardian writes: I had stayed in London the night before, so got to Lord’s early. I was frisked by a security chap who was pouring with sweat. “Blimey, mate,” I said. “You’ve been on it.” He replied: “It’s the menopause” – a line I suspect he was using liberally. After
Continue readingA review of Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode
5 minute readCricket Captain 2018 is fundamentally the same game as last year. Here’s a review of Cricket Captain 2017 for a broad overview and what follows here is a (not particularly) quick look at All-Time Greats mode, which is one of the new features. We did a review thing about playing
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