Sir Allen Stanford charged with fraud

< 1 minute read It’s funny when billionaires get told off. It was good that Sir Allen Stanford inadvertently instilled a sense of responsibility into the West Indies team through encouraging them to prepare properly for the cashtastic Super Series, but it’s also good that he’s being charged with fraud, because he’s a billionaire

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Take the positives out of that

< 1 minute read “Possibly we didn’t play Jerome Taylor in the right sort of way.” Andrew Strauss The bat-on-ball to ball-on-stump ratio would tend to indicate a flaw in your collective approach, yes. England love to take the positives and they did that here. Unfortunately, they took all the positives from their second

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Sulieman Benn’s height

< 1 minute read “All right Mrs Benn. Is your Sulieman playing out today?” That passes muster. Well done that man’s parents. We’ll go so far as to say it’s a magnificent name. See what we’ve done there? 6ft7in left-arm spinners don’t grow on trees. They ARE trees. It would be good if the

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Viv Richards – hero of cricket

2 minute read Is there anyone who doesn’t know Viv Richards? Are there any of our readers who never saw him bat? If there are, you need to get this month’s issue of The Wisden Cricketer which has a special Viv Richards ‘Heroes of Cricket’ supplement with it. There is a profound gap

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Lord Megachief of Gold 2008

2 minute read 2007’s Lord Megachief of Gold was Shivnarine Chanderpaul, but who will be given the most exalted title in all of cricket for 2008? The contenders Gautam Gambhir came of age as a Test batsman and averaged 70.87 during 2008. Graeme Smith did his things and averaged 72. Ajantha Mendis took

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