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February 20, 2021 Australia / England / Features / India / South Africa / Sri Lanka / West Indies

Four of the weirdest eight-fors of the last 25 years (plus one nine-for and one ten-for)

There have been 28 occasions in the last 25 years when a bowler has taken eight wickets or more in a Test innings. Some of these were weirder than others. At what point does a bowling performance become really, truly, freakishly remarkable? We’d say at the seventh wicket. Five-fors are

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February 8, 2021 Bangladesh / West Indies

Kyle Mayers and why sometimes a great entrance is enough

It may have passed you by, but they made a Jesus Quintana film a year or so ago. It isn’t very good. That’s a shame but it doesn’t really matter because sometimes an entrance is all you need. If you haven’t seen The Big Lebowski, the Jesus Quintana scene –

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December 5, 2020 New Zealand / West Indies

Double talk with Kane Williamson

It’s a Lord Megachief of Gold-fest down at Seddon Park this week. Neil Wagner (2019) is doing his usual thing, while Jason Holder (2018) has had a slightly less wonderful time. But it’s Kane Williamson (2015) who has been most influential. We’ve been thinking about double hundreds a bit recently

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July 24, 2020 England / West Indies

Five ways Rahkeem Cornwall is like a cat

Six-foot-six and a hundred tons, Rahkeem Cornwall is a cricketer who’s hard to ignore. We do not plan on ignoring him. This is how he’s like a cat. (1) Conserves energy wherever possible Never run if you can walk. Never walk if you can stroll. Never stroll if you can

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July 21, 2020 England / West Indies

Two cricketers in one? Let’s count how many cricketers Ben Stokes was in this Test alone (and then let’s name them)

People often say that Ben Stokes is two cricketers in one. This seems very disrespectful. If you’ve never seen or read Altered Carbon, the story is set in a future where people can transfer their consciousnesses into different bodies or ‘sleeves’. The technology was originally devised so that people could

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July 17, 2020 England / West Indies

What can we learn from Dom Sibley’s not-very-exuberant hundred celebration?

Late in the morning session of day two of the second Test between England and the West Indies, Dom Sibley once again awoke from his fitful batting slumbers and actually hit the ball. This particular diversion from his default approach of not hitting the ball took him to a 312-ball

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July 11, 2020 England / West Indies

Choose Your Weapons with Ben Stokes and Jason Holder

Let’s talk about picking bowling attacks. Let’s use the first Test between England and the West Indies as a case study and, for an extra frisson of excitement, let’s do this halfway through the game – that way any specifics we use can turn out to be very wrong. Because

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July 9, 2020 England / West Indies

How much more responsibility could Jason Holder possibly take on?

The answer is ‘none’. None more responsibility. Jason Holder is a parsimonious line bowler of immaculate line and length. He is also a two-metre strike bowler, who seams the ball plenty. He’s a decent bat too, not to mention an absolutely peerless anti-Lumbergh of a captain. Now it turns out

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July 8, 2020 England / West Indies

BBC2 Test highlights: First impressions

Tonight was the first episode of the BBC’s new Test highlights show. It’s called Today at the Test, which is a great name (although given today’s rain and its 45-minute running time, this first one should probably have been called Today at the Test Plus Quite a Bit of Other

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February 22, 2020 Associates / West Indies

Thailand’s first T20 World Cup wicket was a run-out

This was, apparently, highly likely. According to Jrod, women’s cricket features a hell of a lot more run-outs than men’s cricket. The fact that the fielding restrictions keep fielders closer than in the men’s game is a large part of the reason why. It means they get to the ball

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