< 1 minute read And Gambhir wins! That seems to be the way this is working. It was four years between Gautam Gambhir’s first and second Test hundreds. Now he’s hit two in two innings. He’s basically an attacking batsman who doesn’t feel he HAS to attack, which is pretty much what you want
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Lancashire sign VVS Laxman
< 1 minute read VVS Laxman is a great player who doesn’t play one-day internationals or Twenty20 internationals. He’s been at Lancashire before and done extremely well and everyone like him. Good signing. It also bolsters Lancashire’s batting, which needs a little bit of enbolsterment right now. Hopefully the enbolstery brought by Laxman will
Continue reading‘Cricketainment’ – has it come to this?
< 1 minute read One thing we know about people: they love to get wound up about stuff. People love getting irritated, even incensed by things they could so easily avoid. Nowhere is this more true than on the internet. So if you’re one of those people, steel yourself for a good old fashioned
Continue readingAustralia, a young team in transition, look to the positives
< 1 minute read And other such euphemisms. Whatever happens tomorrow, it’s been years since Australia were bossed about like this. They’ve lost Tests over the last few years, but those losses have often been helter skelter, chaotic affairs. This is different. Australia are being dictated to. Ever since Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly
Continue readingAmit Mishra takes five wickets on Test debut
2 minute read In Sri Lanka, earlier this year, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh were outbowled to a frightening degree by Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis. With their spin bowlers stumbling somewhat and Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma doing as good a job as all four Aussie quicks put together in the first
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar has the most Test runs
< 1 minute read No-one’s scored more Test runs than Sachin Tendulkar and after passing Brian Lara’s record, he went on to pass 12,000 runs as well. We’d say that he was the first to do so, but you can probably deduce that easily enough. It is very hard to express the significance of
Continue readingIshant Sharma’s hair
< 1 minute read ‘I’m gangly, awkward-looking and appear to be halfway through swallowing a Rubik’s cube – how could I make myself look worse?’ This, presumably, is the thinking behind Ishant Sharma’s strange, effeminate mane. Good bowler, great slower ball, but it’s a dire situation indeed when going back to a mullet would
Continue readingYou’re reading about the Test when there’s Twenty20 on?
< 1 minute read There are two articles. One says Twenty20’s clearly going to kill Test cricket. One says that probably, on balance, that won’t happen. Newspaper editors will tend to publish the first one. The former’s punchier and it provokes debate, so we get to read a disproportionate number of articles about how
Continue readingRicky Ponting isn’t a different batsman when he’s in India
< 1 minute read The thing people often fail to understand about batting averages is that they only describe what’s already happened. Ricky Ponting’s average in India was famously bad, but yet he hit a hundred. That’s the thing about historical precedents – they only tell you about the past. The Australians came up
Continue readingWho to support – India or Australia?
< 1 minute read We know that there are a number of English readers out there who are having trouble picking sides for this series, so we thought we’d help you out. Normally this would be an easy one. You never want to support Australia, whoever they’re playing, because they’re the best. You usually
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