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June 6, 2025 England / India

Virat Kohli explains why the England v India Tests are already jostling the West Indies T20s aside (with help from Marlon Samuels)

4 minute readEngland’s three-match T20 series against the West Indies starts tonight, which means that 90% of recent news has been about the Test series that follows. England named their Test squad, you see – because they didn’t feel doing that would confuse people at all. It’s noteworthy that, in this country

June 4, 2025 England

Welcome to the world of tomorrow! | a recap of England’s 3-0 ODI series win over the West Indies

2 minute readThe Harry Brook era is underway! And we have deigned to write a few sentences about it! New world, old men When Eoin Morgan overhauled England’s ODI team after the 2015 World Cup, the top two performers in the next (completed) game were Joe Root and Jos Buttler, neither of

May 30, 2025 England

A ruddy great hole in the team didn’t stop England hitting 400 and beating the West Indies by a mile

2 minute readThe last time England hit 400, almost 50 ODIs ago, they near as damn it made it to 500. It’s been a while. Probably shouldn’t complain. On that occasion, Eoin Morgan made a golden duck and a couple of weeks later he stopped playing cricket. England’s first 400 had come

May 28, 2025 County cricket / England / West Indies

What these ostensibly pointless West Indies ODIs are actually for, plus the latest update on Lancashire’s recovery masterplan

2 minute readThey say that in London you’re never more than six feet from a rat that has ballooned in size after feeding on one of the city’s countless sewer fatbergs. We don’t know about that, but we do know that in cricket you’re never more than 12 months from a T20

May 23, 2025 England

See, told you Zak Crawley was the very best batter in the whole wide world

2 minute readThere you are, point proven. How could you ever have doubted him? Zak Crawley is averaging 124 across his last one innings in Test cricket. We think the way it works is that Zak Crawley’s hundred is only worth something if it can first be hung off something else. Basically,

May 20, 2025 England / Features / Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe in England: six lessons from history for those not old enough to remember this kind of thing

6 minute readThose of us chipping away the verdigris have a pretty good idea what an early summer England v Zimbabwe Test is all about – but at the same time… man, it’s been a while. All previous England v Zimbabwe matches arrived in a very narrow window between May 2000 and

May 16, 2025 County cricket

Is it possible that despite their best efforts both Josh de Caires and Archie Vaughan will end up carbon copies of their respective fathers?

3 minute readBoth Mike Atherton’s son, Josh de Caires, and Michael Vaughan’s son, Archie Vaughan, have thus far billed themselves as all-rounders. You’re supposed to write that they’re their own men, making their own unique ways in the game, but we can’t help but notice that de Caires is opening the batting

May 14, 2025 County cricket

Lancashire’s recovery masterplan: different captain, different players, different pitches

2 minute readWhen Lancashire were relegated last season, it elicited the usual silver lining consolatory thought among supporters that at least they might win a few more games in Division 2. Dear reader, Lancashire have not yet won a single game in Division 2. Lancashire are bottom. Of the second division. A

May 12, 2025 India

Virat Kohli will be insanely easy to replace

2 minute readWe’re not at all in Rubel Hossain territory here, but we’re pretty sure India just became a better Test team with Virat Kohli’s retirement. He was no longer the Test cricketer he once was. In fact he was essentially John Crawley. When it comes to middle-order batters, India can definitely

May 9, 2025 India / Pakistan

Can this website really report on the “escalating tensions” between India and Pakistan by refracting it through the lens of the PSL and IPL?

2 minute readNo, not really. It’s the tone of irreverent escapism, you see. This gets us through a lot of things, but it takes on a very different hue when it’s applied to a situation where people are actually dying. We went to the India-Pakistan border once. It was 20-odd years ago

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