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October 13, 2017 Extras

Four-day Tests – slightly less of the duration and epic scope that define the game’s longest format

2 minute readHurray! Four-day Tests! They’ll be much like five-day Tests, only with the unique selling point somewhat compromised. Who can fail to support an idea as clear and appealing as that one? The thinking seems to be, ‘well, maybe if each match isn’t quite such a big commitment, some countries might

October 12, 2017 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii / Features

Cricket computer game graphics through the ages

4 minute readLast week we suggested that maybe the golden age of cricket videogame graphics had passed; that maybe player likenesses would from now on always be too convincing and insufficiently amusing. Let’s take a look back on how things have changed, starting with the most recent funny graphics and working our

October 10, 2017 Australia / England

The campaign to get Paul Collingwood into England’s Ashes squad

< 1 minute readWhat else does nostalgia prove, if not that everything was better in the past? Let’s do the who, the what and the why. Who? Paul Collingwood. Paul is 41 and hasn’t played Test cricket for England since 2011, so the first thing to say in favour of his selection is

October 8, 2017 Australia / England

Did you know that it’s the Magellan Ashes this time around?

2 minute readSponsorship is a wonderful thing. It keeps fun stuff profitable and it allows sports players to sound institutionalised and cut off from reality. Midway through the British summer, we saw Alastair Cook being interviewed on breakfast TV. Consummate professional that he is, Cook never once said “Test” when he could

October 6, 2017 Australia

Will Peter Siddle play in the Ashes?

2 minute readWe’re having one of those bizarre moments of doubt. Do cricketers play in the Ashes? It sounds wrong to say they ‘play the Ashes’ but ‘play in the Ashes’ suddenly sounds like the person’s a gleeful pyromaniac dancing in the aftermath of their latest deed. We’ve started a new feature

October 4, 2017 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Ashes Cricket to be released on PC, PS4 and Xbox One

2 minute readWhat do you love most about cricket videogames? If you answered “the deep customisation options” then good news – the developers of the upcoming Ashes Cricket have been listening to you. “Time and time again players tell us the feature they love most about our cricket games is the deep

October 3, 2017 Pakistan / Sri Lanka / West Indies

Mop-up of the day – capybaras and helicopters

2 minute readFirstly, let’s just savour yet another fine moment for Rangana Herath, an international cricketer who is not only older than us, but also better than every other cricketer there’s ever been (possible hyperbole). Spending most of your career with Muttiah Muralitharan as your benchmark can lead to having standards some

October 1, 2017 Australia / England / Extras

I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – the upcoming Ashes tour edition

3 minute readA semi-regular feature in which we ask a fella going by the name of Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. It strikes us that a looming Ashes tour is one of the few times when the sport might

September 29, 2017 County cricket

We should probably mention Middlesex being relegated

< 1 minute readIn a way, Middlesex were unlucky to be relegated as they only finished two points off fourth place. In another way, they weren’t unlucky because Somerset, Hampshire and Yorkshire all finished with more points than they did, which is kind of the aim of this whole endeavour. As title defences

September 28, 2017 County cricket

Where are your ‘bad pitch’ thresholds?

2 minute readWhat is a bad pitch? We can get some sort of an idea by working out what we deem to be a good pitch – but there’s more to it than that. Most people will say a pitch is bad when wickets fall too easily. When a pitch gives too