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2 minute readFootage emerged this week of a player who could only ever have been from Pakistan. Supposedly 15 years old – but actually 17 – Naseem Shah took 6-59 in his second first-class match via a heady masala of hooping away-swingers, yorkers and helmet-rattlers. Meanwhile, in Abu Dhabi, Shah’s countryman Mohammad

October 16, 2018 Sri Lanka

Why don’t we just pretend that Sanath Jayasuriya the cricketer was a completely different human being?

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October 13, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Olly Stone will maybe be a fast bowler for England some of the time

< 1 minute readIt’s an absolute statement of fact that no-one remotely cares whether England win rain-reduced one-dayers against Sri Lanka. England fans care whether England have an England fast bowler playing for England though. In Olly Stone, maybe they sort of do. And maybe he’ll play a quarter or a third of

October 11, 2018 England

Shane Warne says Jos Buttler is a Houdini-esque escapologist

< 1 minute readThe very great thing about Shane Warne having a book out (ghosted by Mark Nicholas, of all people) is that he appears here, there and everywhere and talks his nonsense and we all get to marvel at how swiftly the man can form opinions and stick to them. Warne thinks

October 10, 2018 Australia / Pakistan

Is an Australia player going to say ‘records are made to be broken’?

< 1 minute readAt the time of writing, Australia have made a solid start to chasing 400-and-plenty to win against Pakistan after losing ten wickets for 60 runs in their first innings. We can’t at this point say what we expect the situation to be at the close of play, but it seems