2 minute readIn the wake of their defeat in the first one-day international against New Zealand, England have reverted to their traditional position that Tests are the main thing and they don’t really care about anything else. A 4-1 Ashes defeat followed by a 50-over series win encouraged an unprecedented change in
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New Zealand beat Australia 18-14 at sixes
< 1 minute readHowever, Australia won the fours classification by 19 to 14 and they also scored 20 extras to New Zealand’s 12. The upshot was that Australia won the runs classification by 245 to 243. Wickets also fell – but not enough to be of any real significance. Speaking after the match,
Continue readingEngland are taking swigs of Adil Rashid again and it’s made them a better team
2 minute readEngland are also through to the semi-finals. A handful of percussive mid-sized innings and some hearty bowling were enough to dispatch New Zealand. Jason Roy was still there, continuing his ill-advised experiments with flips and flicks, and Adil Rashid was back. England’s template was therefore pretty much back in place
Continue readingTom Latham can see the future (+ video)
< 1 minute readThat is the only half-decent explanation for this catch. How good!? – Tom Latham’s in-close-running-one-hander to remove Faf du Plessis #NZvSA ^WN pic.twitter.com/8b2PtYvT6K — BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) March 26, 2017 Far and away our favourite part of this footage is seeing Bruce Oxenford visibly embarking upon a gasp towards the end.
Continue readingNeil Wagner sacrifices the opportunity to run in for a small fragment of the final session
< 1 minute readPakistan had already lost six wickets in the final session of the match when Kane Williamson brought forth The Great Neil Wagner. Three ducks later, the series was over. This isn’t going to help Wagner’s reputation one bit. How the hell are you supposed to run in all day when
Continue readingSome cricket that was scheduled to happen really is going to happen
< 1 minute readIndia are to play New Zealand in the third Test in Indore despite someone somewhere reporting that they wouldn’t. The Indian Express spoke to “a senior board official” who said the BCCI’s bank accounts had been frozen at the recommendation of a court-appointed panel set up to look into its
Continue readingWhy Indian pitches offer an excellent exchange rate
< 1 minute readRemember when India’s batsmen used to make double hundreds all the time? Captains routinely doubled up as doctors in the first innings, declaring the innings closed and the pitches dead (even if a certain zombie joie de vivre often manifested itself in the form of turn on day five.) It’s
Continue readingIf we start calling Jason Roy a ‘roybot’ do you think it’ll catch on?
< 1 minute readChris Jordan and Ben Stokes were the actual heroes for England, but this is Twenty20, so like everyone else, let’s instead turn our attention to Jason Roy – a batsman. Roy used both edges of his bat and quite often the middle. Crucially, he also abandoned the moronic belief that
Continue readingEoin Morgan and Kane Williamson are having a cricket
2 minute readWe find ourself humming Roscoe H Spellgood rather a lot at the minute. This is because of the sheer number of match previews saying that England have come a long way in a short time. It strikes us that if you go to the trouble of being as bad as
Continue readingNew Zealand are punching their exact weight
< 1 minute readHow many World Cup finals would New Zealand have to reach before people considered them ‘the team to beat’? We’d guess about forty. This is assuming they didn’t lose each of those finals to the same team because in that situation the team that beat them would obviously be the
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