3 minute read Ashes Cricket 2009 is an action cricket game, as opposed to a strategy game. It’s probably the best cricket game going of that type. Batting Weirdly, batting’s actually better than bowling. In previous cricket games, batting has largely been about getting frustrated and smashing the joypad because your idiot batsman
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Howzat free online cricket game preview
2 minute read We’ve had a quick look at the new free online cricket game Howzat, which is due to be unveiled shortly. We’re giving it the royal seal of approval. Gameplay It’s a player v player action game, as opposed to a management sort of affair. Batting is largely as you’d imagine:
Continue readingKing Cricket comment of the week
< 1 minute read There are people who only read this site for the comments. That’s fair enough. Really the posts are just pegs to hang the comments off. Sometimes we’re tempted to just put up a title on its own as that’s all that’s really needed. However, what you, the reader, often miss
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< 1 minute read We’re in Portugal, but we’ve got stuff ready for the week ahead. There’s a cricket bat in an unusual place, two match reports and an email that we quite liked and decided to turn into a post, even though it’s a bit dated now. On a side note, we just
Continue readingCricket T-shirt winners
< 1 minute read We’ve got the winners of the cricket T-shirt competition we ran about a month ago. We ran the competition late and we’re announcing the winners late. That’s pretty much the way things work round here. At the weekend we were 45 minutes late meeting our friend and it was only
Continue readingAshes Cricket 2009 on the PC
2 minute read We’re reviewing Ashes Cricket 2009 at the moment. It’s actually pretty good, although we’re going to play it a bit more to check there’s no massive flaws that ruin the illusion. There was a slower ball bouncer in the original Brian Lara Cricket which would clean bowl cowering batsmen every
Continue reading40-over county cricket and 50-over one-day internationals
< 1 minute read We’ve written some more about 50-over cricket for The Wisden Cricketer. If you’re bored this afternoon, this is all you’re getting off us, so it’ll have to do. It’s not a bad piece of work – probably at least a 6/10 and maybe even a 7/10.
Continue readingOverly dramatic headline of the week
< 1 minute read The BBC go with “Strauss makes Ashes rallying call”. England’s captain is geeing up the troops with fist-pumping lines such as: “You have to earn the right to be on top in a match and that is why what we did at Headingley was a bit of shocker. We have
Continue readingChris Adams commentating on Twenty20 Finals Day
< 1 minute read We’re not convinced. “He’s doing exactly what it says on the tin. Bowling straight; wicket to wicket.” You can’t use ‘does what it says on the tin’ wherever you like. There are rules. You can’t say: “I’m doing exactly what it says on the tin: I’m stopping in with a
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< 1 minute read The BBC go with: Cool Laxman steers Lancs to win Which is fair enough. Laxman did hit 38 not out off 37 balls to get Lancashire home. However, he was dropped twice and had a relatively easy task as Tom Smith hit 43 off 28 balls. This is what happens
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