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September 12, 2015 Australia / England

England’s one-day matches result in runs, apparently

< 1 minute readHere’s a freakish stat via Cricinfo’s S Rajesh: Since 2006, matches hosted in England have seen the third-highest run-rates in one-day internationals (ODIs). It doesn’t seem right, does it? Granted there are only a handful of countries hosting ODIs, so it’s not third out of a big bunch, but England

September 10, 2015 County cricket

Yorkshire take the second of a hat-trick of County Championship titles

2 minute readIt’s oddly reassuring that Yorkshire should win the title again. It provides the kind of clarity that is rarely seen in English domestic cricket. We can state with some conviction that they are the strongest county at the minute – stronger even than Herefordshire. When a team does well one

September 8, 2015 England

Steven Finn leaps like a crested salmon

< 1 minute readMany things happened in the third one-dayer between England and Australia. James Taylor made a hundred. Alex Hales put a fake walrus head on. Good shots were hit, good balls were bowled. There may even have been a six at one point. We don’t know. Sixes are passé. We don’t

September 7, 2015 Australia / England

UK considering military action in wake of Stokes dismissal

< 1 minute readDavid Cameron has not ruled out bombing raids against Australia in response to Ben Stokes being given out obstructing the field in the first one-day international. However, the UK Prime Minister says that a large-scale deployment of ground troops is unlikely. “Maybe if it had been a mankad and they

September 6, 2015 Australia / England

Ben Stokes out obstructing the field

< 1 minute readWe haven’t seen this incident yet, but it appears to be big news. That happens whenever someone’s dismissed in a weird way and when there’s also a ‘should he have been given out?’ element, you effectively get two stories for the price of one. As far as we can tell,

September 4, 2015 County cricket

Promotion day in the County Championship

< 1 minute readThere are still two matches to go in the second division of the County Championship, but somehow we already know both the counties who will be promoted. What this basically means is that the other seven teams in that division were sufficiently crap that they failed by a distance. There

September 2, 2015 Australia / England

Six things to watch out for in the first England v Australia one-day international

< 1 minute readLet’s do a match preview like proper cricket websites do. Except for the fact that most of the headings are longer than the sections they relate to, we think we’ve done this right… 1. Jason Roy will ‘show intent’ but won’t get all that many runs We hope he does

August 31, 2015 Australia / England

Cameron Boyce fails to purchase sourdough

2 minute readDo you know how far it is from Australia to England? Miles. Absolutely bloody miles. Do you know how long it takes to complete the trip? Ages. Absolutely bloody ages. Cameron Boyce flew from Australia to England for this match. He bowled one over. It went for 19. He didn’t

August 29, 2015 County cricket

Twenty20 Finals Day doesn’t always scream ‘elite sporting event’

2 minute readLast year, we took Birmingham’s appearance in place of Warwickshire in the T20 Blast as being a watertight scientific experiment into whether a future of city teams would lead to better cricket. Birmingham won the tournament, seemingly proving that it would, although the findings were somewhat compromised by their sickening

August 28, 2015 England

Ian Bell continues to take his toll

2 minute readTurns out Ian Bell’s not retiring. You may have heard that he maybe possibly was. You may not. Either way, he isn’t. The umming and ahhing does hint that his career is nearly at an end though. Soon enough, the bell will toll and watching Bell will no longer take