< 1 minute readWhen is a one-off not a one-off? When he inspires a copycat. Lasith Malinga is not unique. We happened across this video of Sinhalese Sports Club’s Nuwan Thushara the other day. Nuwan has clearly thought to himself: “That bowling action of Lasith Malinga’s looks really logical and easy to reproduce.
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We checked who bought Rishabh Pant and it reminded us of something about the IPL
2 minute readRishabh Pant is a player we keep an eye on. We don’t write about him much at the minute, but we get the sense that we will. We were therefore interested to see where he ended up in the IPL auction and whether the teams valued him as highly as
Continue readingJoe Root goes big, Australia fall short
< 1 minute readBefore the fourth one-dayer between Australia and England, the at times nauseatingly partisan BT Sport Twitter account asked which of three England batsmen would “go big” – Jason Roy, Joe Root or Jos Buttler. ✅ Roy ✅ Root ✅ Buttler Who will be the man to go big tonight? ????
Continue readingSouth Africa v India is not boxing, it’s racing
< 1 minute readWith wickets falling every 10 or 20 runs in the South Africa v India series, it’s tempting to resort to the heavyweight boxer cliché. This has the two combatants going toe-to-toe, knocking lumps out of one another with neither taking a backward step. It’s odd to think of wickets as
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What does Lloyd Pope’s hair say about his leg-spin?
2 minute readLloyd Pope took 8-35 to knock England out of the Under-19 World Cup and he’s done a bunch more eye-catching stuff since. This is Lloyd Pope’s hair. You may also notice something hanging off the bottom of it. That thing is Lloyd Pope. You may feel that a man’s hair
Continue readingEngland’s one-day bowling strategy shows up everything that’s wrong with their Test approach
< 1 minute readSpeaking about England’s Test bowling attack this week, Steve Harmison managed the rare feat of deploying the word ‘unit’ in a halfway meaningful way. He told Sky Sports that England have to, “make sure that at any one given time they’ve got skill factor with the new ball, an X-factor
Continue readingBen Stokes has been charged with a crime which apparently means he should become available for England again
< 1 minute readBen Stokes was suspended from international cricket while the Crown Prosecution Service decided whether or not to press charges relating to the Bristol scuffle. Now that they have decided to charge him, he’s once again become eligible for selection. We have no real opinion on whether or not Stokes should
Continue readingRemember when Virat Kohli was a limited overs cricketer?
2 minute readNick Hoult wrote the case study we couldn’t be bothered writing in The Telegraph yesterday. The short version is that between now and England picking their first Test squad to face India in August, Jason Roy will have at most one first-class match in which to make his case for
Continue readingWe’re not going to write about Jason Roy
< 1 minute readJust read last week’s Wisden piece again with this innings in mind. Jason Roy played five first-class matches last season.
Continue readingAjinkya Rahane must be shit-hot at making drinks
2 minute readWe’ve always liked Ajinkya Rahane. He’s always struck us as a batsman who can adapt to different situations and different conditions. India like him too. They like him to be 12th man. Rahane’s case for inclusion in the second Test against South Africa wasn’t undeniable, we’ll admit. He had a
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