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October 31, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Which England player should carry the drinks in Sri Lanka?

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October 29, 2018 Australia

The Disapprover: the new superhero of Australian cricket

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October 24, 2018 India / West Indies

Shimron Hetmyer just narrowly missed out on making back-to-back hundreds against India

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October 24, 2018 England / Sri Lanka

Rating the England burger after a wet one-day series in Sri Lanka

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October 23, 2018 Australia / England / India

Watch the second Al Jazeera match fixing documentary in which (nameless) England cricketers are accused

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October 18, 2018 Australia / Pakistan

The two very obvious highlights from Pakistan v Australia in Abu Dhabi

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October 17, 2018 Australia / Pakistan

Mohammad Abbas could get hold of your phone number (and so could Naseem Shah)

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

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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

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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

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  1. PaulFrame85 on Jasprit Bumrah Workload Watch… 43.4 oversJune 27, 2025

    Who paid the third umpire in the West Indies vs Australia test to make some really quite, seriously, very poor,…

  2. Fred Grace on Jasprit Bumrah Workload Watch… 43.4 oversJune 27, 2025

    Australia are managing their upper order’s workloads quite well.

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    ...not that it mattered much in the end. ...and why do I still look like a toilet? Is the interweb…

  4. Buttface on Jasprit Bumrah Workload Watch… 43.4 oversJune 26, 2025

    ...and there's potentially number three where Green could/should have been out lbw. TV umpire not doing too well.

  5. Buttface on Jasprit Bumrah Workload Watch… 43.4 oversJune 26, 2025

    Yes, highlight 'packages' are not good these days. To see the match live, search for "Windies Cricket" in Youtube, it…

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