2 minute readA few weeks ago, we spent a good long while discussing what time we should leave the County Ground in Bristol when we already knew the match was over. We stick around at the end of cricket matches. We certainly don’t leave early. Today, England made the decision to bat
Continue reading< 1 minute readSomeone came to Old Trafford dressed as the Cookie Monster today. Perhaps it was a reference to the hundred-scoring monster that is Alastair Cook. Or maybe all his other clothes were in the wash. Earlier today we made a comment about how we generally feel like we’ve seen Cook’s innings
Continue reading< 1 minute readThis delivery is basically what we all expected from Mohammad Amir, no? WATCH: This some delivery from Amir to bowl Hales for 10. ENG 26-1: https://t.co/XbFzNuRrnw #ENGvPAK https://t.co/H9xX5Pc49k — England Cricket (@englandcricket) 22 July 2016 Sometimes – like when watching an Alastair Cook innings for example – we can feel
Continue reading< 1 minute readWhat a headline. Okay, let’s hustle through this unsatisfactorily before another Test match starts. In fact it occurs to us that the daily email comprising this particular post will go out at almost exactly the time the match starts. We really should plan ahead. Never mind. The headline’s written. County
Continue reading3 minute readThe Guardian’s cricket correspondent, Mike Selvey, is to part ways with the newspaper at the end of September. “Guardian no longer want 50 yrs intimate knowledge of cricket, cricketers and how game is played for future coverage,” he said in a tweet – later adding the hash tag #abitshitreally to
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe don’t believe you can draw meaningful conclusions from debut performances – but we report on them anyway. Google does currently appear to be conflating Jake Ball with the Welsh rugby player of the same name. The cricket one’s tall, but we’re pretty sure he doesn’t weigh 121kg. Our first
Continue reading< 1 minute readFor all the good cricket Pakistan played to beat England at Lord’s, their greatest attribute was that they visibly enjoyed playing Test cricket. Throughout the match, they were like a group of 11 children revelling in some sort of collective birthday, and when they won, it seemed they’d received the
Continue reading< 1 minute readYasir Shah has the air of a contented cat. We’re not quite sure what gives us this impression. Perhaps it’s the eyes. In the cat world, a slow blink is a way of saying that the person being blinked at is pretty cool. It says that diplomatic relations between you
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe had a first look at James Vince in Test cricket and weren’t much impressed – but we did add the proviso that we don’t ascribe much value to debut performances anyway. We’ve had a few more looks now and we’re still not particularly impressed. We generally find people’s decisiveness
Continue reading< 1 minute readThen reverse sweeps him for four. Then sweeps him for four again. Then he blocks one because he fancies a change of tempo. Then he sweeps him for four again. It could be a long summer for Moeen Ali. In amongst all the sweeping and reverse sweeping for four, Misbah-ul-Haq
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