< 1 minute readYes, it did happen and he wasn’t a nightwatchman because it was a Twenty20 match – the quarter-final against Essex. It makes a kind of sense. Sajid Mahmood’s been batting surprisingly well for Lancashire this season, hitting four fifties in his 10 first-class innings and scoring at quite a lick.
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Stephen Moore has a duff day
< 1 minute readLosing a match is bad Being out LBW is bad Being out first ball is bad Being out first ball of the innings is bad Dislocating your shoulder in the outfield is bad At least Stephen Moore can console himself with the fact that he’s not Giles Clarke.
Continue readingWe have a not-so-serious point to make
< 1 minute readIt’s not really a point. In fact, several of the commenters on our latest Cricinfo piece say it just sort of tails off. It’s a fictional Pakistan team meeting, if that makes you more or less likely to click through and have a read.
Continue readingThe Twenty20 Cup is about to get good
< 1 minute readWe just thought we’d warn you all about this fact, because chances are you lost interest in the Twenty20 Cup about a month ago. After 10,000 mostly pointless matches, we’ve managed to trim 18 teams down to eight. However, there are four matches today and tomorrow we will be down
Continue readingMuttiah Muralitharan’s 800th Test wicket
< 1 minute readWe don’t get it. It was only Pragyan Ojha. What’s the big deal? If we’d taken 800 Test wickets, we wouldn’t be jumping up and down about getting Pragyan Ojha out. We’d have been more worked up about dismissing better batsmen, like Ian Salisbury or Chris Lewis.
Continue readingAsif, Aamer and Gul ask you if you enjoy fun
< 1 minute readIf you actually enjoy cricket, you can’t help but have enjoyed watching Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer and Umar Gul bowl yesterday. It was better than spoon meat and carbonated dipping jam. That they bowled Australia out for 88 was something of a bonus. Quite simply, this was cricket LIKE IT’S
Continue readingFind out whether you’ll one day captain Pakistan
< 1 minute readUsing a Venn diagram!
Continue readingThe Indian bowling defence
< 1 minute readWell it isn’t a bowling attack, is it? India have got a medium-pacer called Abhimanyu Mithun opening the bowling against Sri Lanka. We hadn’t even heard of him until this morning. Muralitharan said this week that Harbhajan Singh was the only person who could challenge his Test wickets record. At
Continue readingShahid Afridi should only play Test cricket
< 1 minute readOnly four days after returning to Test cricket, Pakistan captain, Shahid Afridi, has again announced his retirement with the typically odd yet straightforward statement: “My temperament is not good enough for Test cricket and we need a proper batsman or a proper bowler.” Only yesterday we were remarking how Test
Continue readingSteven Smith’s bowling action
< 1 minute readYou can waste a hell of a lot of time deconstructing Steven Smith’s double-elbowed chicken dance bowling action. We mentioned this to a friend of ours and he said, quite simply: “I want to deconstruct Steven Smith’s face.”
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