< 1 minute read Do you know who makes the light meters that the umpires use to ruin people’s days? Do you? Do you? It’s only Megatron. From the Megatron website: “Megatron manufactures photoelectric cells and instruments for measuring light.” It’s a strange choice of career for a gun that can transform into a
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Chris Gayle ‘celebrates’ a fifty
< 1 minute read When Chris Gayle reached his fifty today, he punched the air with both hands and then shook his head. Maybe he doesn’t think this Test feels like much of an occasion. We don’t know exactly, but to us it seemed like a cricketer who didn’t think much of his own
Continue readingWhy does Fidel Edwards hate James Anderson?
< 1 minute read Fidel Edwards has mostly been bowling at James Anderson’s head of late. Edwards appears to have some sort of a problem with the Lancashire bowler, giving him a mouthful once every few balls and bowling about 5-6mph quicker due to the adrenaline. When these sorts of duels get personal, it
Continue readingSulieman Benn’s bowling action
< 1 minute read One of the commentators during the last Test – we forget who – said that Sulieman Benn had a good bowling action. Now we can only presume that he meant it was solid and reliable or maybe ‘funny’. Because it isn’t a good bowling action. He looks like a horse
Continue readingGraeme Swann loves dismissing left-hand batsmen
< 1 minute read We dare say Graeme Swann quite likes dismissing right-hand batsmen as well, but he doesn’t do it half as often. Of his six wickets in this match, only one was right-handed – Jerome Taylor. This is by no means unusual for Swann. Against right-handers he looks an everyday bowler. Against
Continue readingWhy Graham Onions’ five-fer ain’t all that
< 1 minute read After being clean bowled for a golden duck and then seeing his first ball carted for four, Graham Onions didn’t immediately knock Test cricket sideways with his brilliance. A bit later, after three wickets in an over and 5-38, things looked a bit better. But… Have England found a great
Continue readingRavi Bopara celebrates
< 1 minute read It’s nice to have a batsman who celebrates his hundreds through the lost art of mime. In Barbados he did a funny bow and arrow thing upon reaching three figures. Yesterday, he outlined the Lord’s honours board and scribbled his name on it. Ravi Bopara could have played flawlessly for
Continue readingAdvice for Fidel Edwards
< 1 minute read Maybe just bowl at the stumps, eh? Surely by now you’ve realised that your team mates have tiny, rigid, Lego man hands with unbending fingers that can’t catch cricket balls. Give it up. They’re only going to let you down. Fidel Edwards took 4-53 today and could quite realistically have
Continue readingChris Gayle hits a six we wouldn’t believe if we hadn’t just seen it
< 1 minute read Chris Gayle developed a taste for clearing the ropes in his 43 ball 80, but one six in particular was more ludicrous than the other seven. England were so dead, rigor mortis had set in and it’s easier to play freely in that situation, but this shot was stupendous. James
Continue readingWest Indies’ one-day kit
< 1 minute read “Let’s make the shirt maroon and then match that with scarlet trousers and hats, because maroon and scarlet are complementary colours. “Let’s put some yellow bits here, there and everywhere and then let’s make the collar, ooh, let’s say bright green. “Finally, as the piece de resistance, let’s put a
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