< 1 minute readIf England win, they go through. If Sri Lanka win, they or South Africa will go through.
Continue reading< 1 minute readThe ECB has announced that bland-tasting pish, Foster’s, is to become the official lager of England cricket. Interestingly, England cricket already has an official beer, which is Greene King IPA, so you can now go to the pub and get a pint of golden while remaining entirely ‘brand loyal’. Or
Continue reading< 1 minute readPlaying India, Bangladesh got themselves into a position where they needed two to win off three balls. Metaphorically speaking, all they had to do was avoid smashing a plate and accidentally disemboweling themselves with a shard of it. Being as they didn’t even have a plate, things looked pretty good.
Continue reading< 1 minute readEngland appear to have sold you a dummy. Just when you thought they might be transforming into some sort of competent modern T20 side, they conspire to lose three wickets in an over against Afghanistan. Masterful stuff. The bowler was Mohammad Nabi, one of our ten World Cup players to
Continue reading< 1 minute readHow many World Cup finals would New Zealand have to reach before people considered them ‘the team to beat’? We’d guess about forty. This is assuming they didn’t lose each of those finals to the same team because in that situation the team that beat them would obviously be the
Continue reading< 1 minute readDon’t know. New Zealand are yet to make any runs and yet have won both games, the Windies are also unbeaten, while everyone else has lost at least once. England looked like the England of old in their first match. South Africa failed to defend a million. Sri Lanka have
Continue reading< 1 minute readIndia are playing Pakistan. It’s a big deal. This website being what it is, the only appropriate course of action was for us to wander out halfway through. At the time of writing, Mohammad Sami – Mohammad Sami! – had taken two wickets in two balls as India set about
Continue reading< 1 minute readAfter two overs against the West Indies, England had scored five. They then added another 177. After two overs against South Africa, England had made 44. They then added another 186. The first two overs aren’t to be wasted. It was an odd match though. We can only conclude that
Continue reading< 1 minute readRegardless of how they’re performing, it’s worth taking a moment to ponder that anew. Afghanistan are playing cricket. Afghanistan. And indeed cricket. The sport hasn’t exactly gone viral. Most of the time it seems hell-bent on playing out behind some sort of paywall, yet somehow Afghanistan has barged its way
Continue reading2 minute readNot so long ago, England were claiming that they had little regard for par scores any more. Henceforth, their only target was to be ‘as many as we can get’. Maybe this is still the case, but today’s batting against the West Indies seemed initially cautious to these sometimes blurry
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