< 1 minute readDelhi Daredevils’ Dinesh Karthik had just been stumped by his Mumbai Indians counterpart, Aditya Tare. Harbhajan Singh had bowled a wide, but Tare had gone down the legside and flicked it behind him to hit the stumps. It was a brilliant piece of work, deserving of lofty praise. On commentary,
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How much is a DLF maximum worth?
< 1 minute readTechnically, it’s worth six runs, because it’s how sixes have been branded in the IPL – but that’s not our point. (We’ve made a polite enquiry about sponsoring thick-edged singles down to third man, incidentally. The King Cricket Thick-Edged Single Down to Third Man highlights reel would be a show-stopper
Continue readingSteven Finn brings height and speed to the England bowling attack
< 1 minute readEarlier this week, we wrote about England’s back-up bowlers for The Wisden Cricketer, saying they were all a bit samey. The one guy we didn’t mention was our former One To Watch, Steven Finn. Finn actually got picked to make his Test debut against Bangladesh and it’s the fact that
Continue readingLive IPL on YouTube – the shittest press release ever
< 1 minute readBrace yourselves for this. It’s a good ‘un. Here is the heading of the press release about how you can watch live IPL matches on YouTube. The asterisk is vital. We’ll come to that in a second. Indian Premier League bowls wicked googly* to the world on YouTube That’s pretty
Continue readingMatthew Hayden and the Mongoose – together at last
< 1 minute readConsidering that Matthew Hayden and the Mongoose cricket bat are two of our favourite things to talk about on this site, you’d think we’d have more to say about this: The heading on the press release says: Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds to ‘let loose the Goose’ We should DEFINITELY
Continue readingWatch the IPL live on ITV4
< 1 minute readHere’s a gilt-edged opportunity to get discarded. Giles Clarke can’t give us live cricket on free to air TV; Lalit Modi can. Pretty much ever since the format first appeared, we’ve been saying that having live Twenty20 matches on terrestrial TV at 8pm on a Friday night would help cricket
Continue readingYousuf and Younus AREN’T banned for life
< 1 minute readEven by Pakistan’s standards this must be some kind of a record. After claiming to be on very firm ground with the punishments they’d doled out, the Pakistan Cricket Board has now said that actually what may have sounded like a life ban was no such thing. Mohammad Yousuf and
Continue readingLife bans for Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan?
< 1 minute readBanning Pakistan cricketers for in-fighting? It’s like firing a computer programmer for being interested in Star Wars. Some things just come with the territory. With Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan banned for life, there’s every chance that one of them might not play in the Test series against Australia this
Continue readingShane Warne learns Indian English
< 1 minute readDepending on the speaker’s mother tongue, there are different forms of Indian English. Each has its own little quirks. The word ‘the’ might disappear from one sentence and appear unexpectedly in another. The words ‘would’ and ‘will’ are often used interchangeably. We’ve no problem with any of this. Our Hindi’s
Continue readingMitchell Johnson makes friends in New Zealand
< 1 minute readFrom Fox Sports: “Johnson had come to the bowling crease for the fifth over and was greeted with the ‘wanker’ chant.” What’s the ‘wanker’ chant? Is there one particular ‘wanker’ chant that’s better known than all the others? We know a bunch of them. We’ve all been there, haven’t we?
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