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March 15, 2017 Extras

I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – the North v South edition

2 minute readA semi-regular feature in which we ask Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. Anything you want to know about this week’s North v South cricket matches? Is this real? Is it really North versus South? Are they trying

March 14, 2017 County cricket

Them North v South matches start this week

2 minute readOr, you know, “those” North v South matches if you’ve got some weird dialect or other. Rivalries are rarely more intense than between two groups of people who are all but identical when viewed with any sense of perspective. The rest of the cricket world will look on in amused

March 13, 2017 Extras

Books to read at the cricket – A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

2 minute readGed writes: This was a first for me in the matter of reading a novel while watching county cricket. In the past, at cricket, I have always gone for: factual books (usually on economics, psychology, ethics or some mixture of those things) plays journal articles and/or my general weekly reading

March 9, 2017 England

Jason Roy wants England to be worse at one-day cricket

2 minute readIt’s happened again. Jason Roy wants to do things that will make England worse at cricket. Ahead of the World T20, Roy appeared to lose sight of his role at the top of the order, which we likened to tinder. He said he wanted to give himself time, apparently unaware

March 8, 2017 Australia / India

The India players have started faking injuries

< 1 minute readPat Farhart news! About time. It’s been almost a decade. Farhart is of course the physio who not-all-that-famously helped Australia spinner Beau Casson’s groin “respond”. He hasn’t got down to any of that sort of business with India yet, but he’s working towards it. Mark our words. He’s giving neck

March 7, 2017 Australia / India

Virat Kohli accuses Steve Smith of line-crossing

< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images “There’s a line that you don’t cross on the cricket field,” said Virat Kohli, shortly after suggesting that the Australians had been looking to their dressing room for help when deciding whether to review decisions or not. You realise what this is, don’t you? It’s an

March 6, 2017 Australia / India

Did India give Australia a 1.4 Test head start?

< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images It would seem a bit much to give the opposition a 1.4 Test head start in a three Test series. The finish line could be crossed with little more than a trip and a fall. Apparently this is a four Test series though, so perhaps India

March 4, 2017 Australia / India

Nathan Lyon transforms into Australia’s Steve O’Keefe

< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images Or at least it could be seen that way if Australia didn’t already have a Steve O’Keefe. Nathan Lyon still bowled like one though. You know that classic Steve O’Keefe thing; the one where you go to India and spin them out for under 200? Lyon

March 3, 2017 Pakistan

The hefty, graceful Inzamam-ul-Haq is slightly older

< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images Apparently it’s Inzy’s birthday today. We know this because All Out Cricket linked to an old Kings of Cricket piece we wrote about him on that basis. If recycling content on a Friday because it’s someone’s birthday is good enough for All Out Cricket, well it’s

March 2, 2017 County cricket / England

A new source of images – so obviously we just went and found a load of Rob Key photos

< 1 minute readGetty has got a thing that allows us to embed images. They say it’s free to use and entirely legal – although with Getty being famously litigious when it comes to unauthorised use of their photographs, we still feel a little nervous, like they’re luring is into a trap or