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June 26, 2025 England / India / Uncategorized

Jasprit Bumrah Workload Watch… 43.4 overs

3 minute readEngland achieved a couple of things at Headingley. Most obviously, they won – but they also did so while compelling Jasprit Bumrah to bowl really quite a lot of overs. That’s an investment that might pay dividends later in the series. Unleashed! It’s easy being a really good batter because

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April 23, 2025 County cricket / Uncategorized

What in Blazes? English women’s domestic game restarts in (yet) another user-friendly format

2 minute readIn England the men’s domestic game tends to flail around incorrigibly, endlessly adding formats and complexity to make itself ever more impenetrable. The women’s game, in contrast, tends to move from one reasoned, accessible structure to another. The sheer frequency of overhauls seems to us the only meaningful attempt to

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September 24, 2024 County cricket / Uncategorized

Why are Lancashire probably getting relegated?

5 minute readLancashire are 15 points behind Nottinghamshire and 20 points behind Warwickshire going into the last round of matches. Those two teams will play each other and a draw plus a couple of bonus points for Notts would be enough to save both. That would be true even if Lancashire were

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May 28, 2024 County cricket / Uncategorized

We’re mostly talking about Jordan Cox v Kent this week

2 minute readThe County Championship enters its first hiatus with not much in it at the top after Essex won by an innings and Surrey lost by an innings. Third-placed Somerset also lost by an innings, weirdly. What happened with Surrey then? Dunno really. Despite the fact everyone in their top six

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August 10, 2023 England / Features / Uncategorized

Stuart Broad: Titan of Ridiculousness

6 minute readAnd so the greatest Test batter of all time has departed the game just four ducks short of Courtney Walsh’s all-time record with 39. To put that in context, the next highest tally by someone with a Test hundred to their name is Marvan Atapattu’s 22 – and that was

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September 16, 2022 County cricket / Uncategorized

Oh yeah, the County Championship – so where are we with that then?

2 minute readThe hot Le Creuset pan that is the County Championship has sufficiently cooled that we again feel able to grasp it in our now autumnally frostbitten fingers. But just what are we grasping after all this time? What’s the situation here? In the early days of Breaking Bad, back in

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July 24, 2022 County cricket / Uncategorized

Maybe this is Sam Northeast’s tasty month

< 1 minute readIf Sam Northeast has had a “thing” it was forever being mentioned as a possible England batter but never actually getting picked. Now he’s the guy who made 410 not out. Some players have a real knack for not getting picked for the Test team. Sam Northeast has delivered in

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June 29, 2022 Uncategorized

A cold Sciver, a handy Kapp and Alice Davidson-Richards

2 minute readRemember when being five down for not many runs was a bad thing? Whatever happened to that? Two weeks ago, England’s men’s team were 93-4 in pursuit of 299 to win. Somewhere around a minute later, they’d won the match – in large part thanks to Jonny Bairstow, who was

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May 18, 2022 England / Uncategorized

Why we’re celebrating the first England Test squad of the summer

4 minute readIt was the first England Test squad announcement of the summer today. You may well have something to say about some of the specifics, but can we please first just stop and celebrate the annual ritual of picking apart the coming Test season before it’s even begun. Near the start

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October 15, 2021 County cricket / Uncategorized

County cricket says 2020 and 2021 didn’t happen

3 minute readYou can see where they’re coming from. But pretty sure they did. What we’re talking about here is of course the format of the 2022 County Championship. Nothing wrong with the format itself. (Oh no, wait, it’s gone back to being lopsided and ridiculous.) The (new) issue is how they’ve

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