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October 3, 2018 County cricket / England

TalkSPORT and Test Match Special | I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It

2 minute readI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It is a semi-regular feature where we ask a fella called Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. England tour Sri Lanka and the West Indies this winter and the big news for

October 2, 2018 Australia

EXCLUSIVE: Shane Warne capable of self-awareness

2 minute readShane Warne’s got another book out – No Spin. In it, he’s taken the time to dig over old grievances with Steve Waugh. The story is this. Steve Waugh wanted to drop Shane Warne once because he was coming back from major shoulder surgery and he wasn’t bowling very well.

September 30, 2018 England

Is Rory Burns going to have to give a presentation on industrial piping?

3 minute readOur favourite TV series that we’ve no idea whether you’d like and that you won’t see anyway because it’s on Amazon Prime is Patriot. It’s about a somewhat blank-faced intelligence officer, John Tavner, who has to become a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm because they’re the only

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

September 25, 2018 England / India / Pakistan

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