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May 29, 2017 England / South Africa

England need some E45 cream

< 1 minute readAfter snatching the second one-day international, England decided to test the notion that they can now win from any position by giddily launching themselves towards 20-6 in the third. Now 20-6 is definitely a score you can win from, but ideally you’d be fielding when it occurred. South Africa got

May 27, 2017 County cricket / Sri Lanka

So Kumar Sangakkara’s in form then (and not even put off by snapping his bat in half)

< 1 minute readKumar Sangakkara’s last five County Championship innings have been 136, 105, 114, 120 and 200. Today’s double hundred came in a team total of just 369. And he wasn’t even put off by snapping his bat in half. SNAP. Sanga’s bat ends up in two pieces off the bowling of

May 25, 2017 County cricket / Match report

Cambridge MCCU v Middlesex CCC – match report

2 minute readEdwardian writes: Cambridge is heaving at the best of times, but taking the quiet back streets from the station to Fenner’s was very pleasant. A few ‘good mornings’ and I was there by 10.30am. I was there to meet my wife’s uncle Spike who said he would do his best

May 24, 2017 England / South Africa

South Africa have already choked

< 1 minute readWe were quite keen to be first off the mark in using the word “choked” to mean “lost a cricket match” in reference to South Africa this summer. Hopefully we have achieved our aim. When you see the term deployed by others in the weeks to come, be sure to

May 24, 2017 Extras

Laurence Elderbrook fights and defeats nerves

2 minute readPrevious instalment from Laurence Elderbrook I have concluded that it is irresponsible to open the batting. I am a gifted, match-winning batsman and to expose myself to the vagaries of the new ball is to introduce an element of chance to proceedings when a fair fight would always see me

May 23, 2017 County cricket

A featherbed of Roses – The County Championship round-up

< 1 minute readThey bothered playing some of the County Championship this week. Need they have? The Roses match After little more than a day, Jimmy Anderson had succumbed to groin knackage, Jack Brooks had made a hundred and this match already seemed like it was no longer a going concern. All that

May 21, 2017 Extras

Which cricket mobile apps do you use (if any)?

< 1 minute readAs the Champions Trophy rolls towards us like the wooden wheel that we made each week in Craft, Design and Technology at school (having always lost the previous week’s wheel at some point in the interim) it seems a decent enough time to pay a visit to the subject of

May 18, 2017 Extras

Laurence Elderbrook benefits from the gift of time

< 1 minute readPrevious instalment from Laurence Elderbrook For once the normally laborious aspect of cricketer errantry was swift. My squire, Darron-with-an-O, secured a slot for me with a local club within minutes of our setting off in my motorcar. I had anticipated a long morning roaming from club to club and so

May 16, 2017 England / Pakistan

The pressure builds – a four-Test story of two opposing batsmen

3 minute readOne is English, one is Pakistani. One is young, one is old – or at least he is in cricketing terms. For much of last summer’s Test series between England and Pakistan, Alex Hales and Younus Khan trod a similar path. Come the last Test, their journeys diverged markedly. Hales

May 14, 2017 Extras

Normal service not really resumed

< 1 minute readThere’s been a daughter! Her name’s Niamh. She’s basically the best thing of all. Obviously she’s not our sole creation, so please resist the temptation to assign her some sort of royal cricket title. Niamh and her mother are the main reasons why we’ve been a trifle pressed for time