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September 27, 2018 County cricket

A full report on that thrilling final County Championship match between Surrey and Essex

< 1 minute readThe climax of the County Championship is always thrilling. Always. This year was no exception. (How could it have been when we literally just told you that the climax is always thrilling? (Think, McFly! Think!)) Having surrendered a ten million run first innings deficit to last year’s champions Essex, this

12 memorable moments from England’s 2018 summer

4 minute readThis is a somewhat ironic headline because as a rule we don’t remember things. Our brain long ago adopted the after-midnight-at-a-popular-nightclub policy towards nuggets of information – one in, one out. So consider this a note to our future self that you’re all invited to read in the present. It’s

September 21, 2018 England

Two of those England Test selections are just about weird and surprising enough to talk about

2 minute readEngland have named their Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka. Rory Burns is in, Olly Stone is in, and – a mere 10 years after we tipped him – so too is Joe “No Pants” Denly. The Burns selection isn’t really worth commenting on, so let’s concentrate on

September 20, 2018 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

A review of Afghanistan career mode in Cricket Captain 2018

3 minute readBack when we reviewed Cricket Captain 2018’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode, we said we’d also do a thing on playing a career as Afghanistan. This is that thing. For a more comprehensive look at the mechanics of Cricket Captain 2018, see our review of the 2017 game (it’s fundamentally the same).

September 19, 2018 India / Pakistan

Kedar Jadhav once dobbed three wickets against Pakistan

< 1 minute readOne of the great things about cricket is that a match can be unimaginably massive and yet one of the key contributions will come from someone who doesn’t even practise. Kedar Jadhav doesn’t really bowl in the nets. He’s probably worried that any attempt to hone his craft will wash

September 18, 2018 County cricket

Why is cricket so infatuated with the Powerplay?

2 minute readOne of the more mundane revelations from the recently undertaken trials of The Hundred is that they’re going to have a Powerplay. ‘So what?’ you might think. But when all innovations seem to be on the table and the aim is to make the game as simple and straightforward as

September 13, 2018 County cricket

Morkel Burns Pope (and now for some commas)

2 minute readSurrey have won the County Championship. You win 10 of 12 matches and draw the other two and these things happen. We were checking the averages in the first division of the County Championship earlier today and two things struck us. Firstly, very few people have averaged over 40 and

September 13, 2018 County cricket

You can probably gauge the worth of Paul Collingwood from that time he was an umpire

2 minute readPaul Collingwood excelled at all those aspects of cricket which are undervalued; all the ones that are hard to measure; stuff like fielding and unearthing singles that have no right to be taken. Because of this, he was one of our heroes when he retired from international cricket and he’s

September 11, 2018 England / India

It might not be entirely fair to judge Adil Rashid on his ability to unfailingly produce magic on demand

2 minute readEngland got to have a go at partnership-breaking when the ball wasn’t doing a right lot today. Everyone had a go and everyone failed and then Joe Root finally gave Adil Rashid a bowl and he got both lads out. That’s a very simplistic way to describe how things went,

September 10, 2018 England

Let’s strap on Alastair Cook’s pads for a minute so that we can appreciate his streamlined thinking

2 minute readAfter precisely one Test match, we’d seen all the shots (and non-shots) we were ever going to see from Alastair Cook. You know them all, but let’s list them anyway. Maybe in 20 years time you’ll revisit this article having forgotten one of them. The leave The forward defensive The

You could. Less jetlag. Meanwhile, er, didn't I always say Australia shouldn't take this tournament for granted...

Suppose you could argue it reduces flight times and mitigates time zone adjustment.

Fair point! I think there has been some talk of strategy associated with these NZ games, but I'm sure you're…

Reading that again, it's an interaction where it's pretty easy to imagine his tone and demeanour.

Not sure international men's cricket scheduling should ever be associated with strategising. The NZ tour is more just the particular…

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