< 1 minute readThere are some great stories going around about Ricky Ponting smashing a telly after being run-out against Zimbabawe. We like the ones that depict feeble tantrums rather than those where he has THE RAGE. Our two favourites so far are: That he threw his gloves at the TV and now
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Complacent England sabotage their own team
< 1 minute readNo Mike Yardy for England’s World Cup opener against the Netherlands? Are they saving him for later in the tournament? Maybe he’s being remoulded as a secret weapon. Although if that’s the case, he’s not very weapon-like. He seems like something altogether more functional, like a spanner or a screwdriver.
Continue readingVirender Sehwag can win the World Cup for India
2 minute readAnd he can do it by scoring slower and hitting fewer boundaries. We often look for individual match-winners and few are so obviously identifiable as Virender Sehwag. Yet cricket is a team game and teams can do more than individuals when they get things right. Sehwag has said that he
Continue readingKevin Pietersen as an opener in one-day cricket?
< 1 minute readYeah? Maybe? Dunno really. England have long known that one-day openers are better off being twat-it-around batsmen. They haven’t fully embraced this though. They tend to pick their second or third best twat-it-around batsman for the job. Preferably the wicketkeeper. Why not do the job properly? If you want a
Continue readingEngland ABSOLUTELY MURDER Canada by 16 runs
< 1 minute read“Avril Lavigne, Bryan Adams, Celine Dion, Alanis Morissette, The Crash Test Dummies. “Shania Twain, can you hear me? Shania Twain, your boys took a hell of a beating.” Sometimes England are so good at one-day cricket it’s physically painful just thinking about it.
Continue readingEngland heroes for the 2011 Cricket World Cup
2 minute readIf you’re English, your heroes shouldn’t be talented or eye-catching. Being English is about celebrating the people who really don’t seem like they should be doing something, but are doing it anyway and are doing it well. Here are the official King Cricket heroes for the 2011 World Cup. These
Continue readingAre you happy with Ravi Bopara being in England’s World Cup squad?
2 minute readWe are. We’d rather have Eoin Morgan, but if he’s got a knackered finger, we’ll settle for Bopara. This is a somewhat unfashionable opinion at the minute and we’re pretty sure it’s because of that phenomenon where Ashes performances are almost wholly responsible for forming people’s opinions. In 2009, Ravi
Continue readingIf only there were an eighth one-day international between Australia and England
< 1 minute readWhat is the greatest mark of quality for any given one-day international? We’ve always thought that if a game features four wicketkeepers, that’s a pretty good sign. During the seventh one-day international between Australia and England, that dream was finally realised. In many ways, this match represented a high water
Continue readingSpot fixing bans and second chances for Amir, Asif and Butt
2 minute readPeople are idiots. That’s a rule that pretty much always stands up to scrutiny. Put people in a position where there’s a choice to make and they will naturally veer towards the stupid option by default. Even so, some options are sufficiently stupid that most of us don’t take them.
Continue readingAshes series were already too frequent
2 minute readWe’d like to add a slightly more sober footnote to our post from last Friday. We described back-to-back Ashes series as being ‘quite literally the worst idea of all time’. We stand by that and would like say that it’s actually the worst idea by an even greater margin that
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