< 1 minute readRahul Bhattacharya’s piece about Shivnarine Chanderpaul in the November issue of The Cricket Monthly is full of highlights, not least because a man who is himself one of our favourite cricketers also seems to revere exactly the same players we do. He describes how Brian Lara would sometimes put spin
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Abandoned West Indies tour is not in the spirit of cricket
2 minute readWe consider the Spirit of Cricket – the branded, upper-case initial letter creation of the MCC – to be a nebulous pile of bollocks. You can quote us on that. However, that isn’t to say that there is no such thing as the spirit of cricket. The Spirit of Cricket
Continue readingThe West Indies’ 2015 World Cup strategy
2 minute readLet’s take a day off from the office politics and instead take a look at some cricket. The West Indies beat India today. Hypothesis testing One of the most interesting things in the run-in to the World Cup – often more interesting than the tournament itself – is that we
Continue readingSunil Narine taken out to the Pine Barrens
< 1 minute readDo you get the feeling that there are a number of dead men walking at the minute? It’s like one mob family has ordered a series of hits on a rival family and now capos and crew members are being picked off as they go about their daily business. Sunil
Continue readingWere Sri Lanka far and away the better team?
< 1 minute readGrowing up, our home town had one cinema, which had two screens. If you wanted to watch a film, you watched what was on. That’s the only possible explanation as to how we once found ourself watching Far and Away, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Towards the end of
Continue readingWhen is a lottery not a lottery?
< 1 minute readMinnows, upsets, India v Pakistan and the semi-finals already – this World T20 is getting the job done. And while some people claim that Twenty20 can be a lottery, you can make a strong case for the four remaining teams also being the four strongest. Sri Lanka v West Indies
Continue readingJames Faulkner can even make Chris Gayle lose his cool
< 1 minute read“I don’t particularly like them,” said James Faulkner before Australia played the West Indies. He must positively detest them now. Here’s another Faulkner quote. “If you can do something to upset somebody and upset their team, it goes a long way towards doing well as a group.” He got that the
Continue readingDarren Sammy’s surely on the way out, right?
2 minute readWe’ve got a Sachin Tendulkar post saved as a draft, but let’s look elsewhere today. Let’s look at the West Indies captain, Darren Sammy, who’s currently having a ‘mare. We rather like Sammy. Not just because his initials make him DJ Sammy, not just because he purveys genuine medium-pace and
Continue readingGeneric ‘someone is better than someone else’ post
< 1 minute readSouth Africa are supposed to be playing the Windies today, then India play Pakistan before England play New Zealand. However, we’re away for the weekend with no plans to use the internet, so you’re going to have to fill in the gaps yourselves in the comments section. We’re not really
Continue readingIndia are better than the West Indies
< 1 minute readAnd largely thanks to the bowling of Ravindra Jadeja, of all people. We’re still not quite sure how he gets wickets. This week’s instalment of The Spin was about Jadeja and how fans didn’t value him for a long time. We’re glad he’s no longer getting a hard time, but
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