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June 29, 2015 Australia

The lessons Mitchell Starc doesn’t need to learn

2 minute readWe remember seeing a story in the local paper once where a woman had come second in some sort of vegetable growing competition despite being the only person to have entered that particular category. Let’s say she grew a broccoflower – which is apparently a thing. In a world class

June 26, 2015 England

The story of Matt Prior

3 minute readPerhaps it’s mankind’s predisposition towards seeing the world in terms of stories that has resulted in there being so much emphasis on the latter stages of Matt Prior’s career. Stories build towards an ending, so we tend to think that’s the most important bit. Such a way of looking at

June 25, 2015 Australia

Magazine aimed specifically at Michael Clarke’s Australia team launched

< 1 minute readAsked about ‘the line‘ earlier this month, Michael Clarke responded: “I probably say this every series but we respect there’s a line you can’t cross. Both teams might head-butt that line, but I’m confident we won’t overstep the mark.” Everyone knows that Clarke would never breach a line, which is

June 24, 2015 England / New Zealand

Joe Root becomes the context and goodbye to Ian Smith

2 minute readIf we were tasked with producing a faceless match report for the Twenty20 international between England and New Zealand, we’d write: “Joe Root top-scored in an innings in which Jason Roy and Sam Billings showed great promise,” or something like that. Joe Root is not the focus there. He’s context.

June 23, 2015 India

‘I’m the captain’ says Dhoni following Bangladesh series defeat

< 1 minute readFollowing India’s one-day series defeat to Bangladesh, MS Dhoni has hit back at his critics, saying that he’s the captain and nothing beyond that. When it was put to him that the result might be considered something of a disappointment to India fans, Dhoni may or may not have replied:

June 22, 2015 Australia

Steven Smith is destined to fail says Michael Clarke

2 minute readMichael Clarke has launched an astonishing broadside against his team-mate Steven Smith ahead of this summer’s Ashes series. The Australian captain claims that Smith will struggle to make any sort of impact this summer despite now being ranked the best Test batsman in the world. Responding to Graeme Swann’s assertion

June 20, 2015 England / New Zealand

Was this the greatest ever one-day series decider?

< 1 minute readAnd is ‘number of wicketkeepers in squad’ the key metric when predicting the likelihood of success nowadays? Sod net practice, let’s get everyone squatting down with Bruce French for hours at a time. Who’s got a spare room? We’re starting to think we should invite New Zealand to move in.

June 20, 2015 England / New Zealand

Langoustines? From England?

2 minute readWe kept an eye on this one-day series between England and New Zealand while we were away, but we were rather too preoccupied eating squid to read as much about it as we normally would. It was therefore slightly odd to return to lots of articles of the oeuvre ‘is

June 18, 2015 Match report

Ireland v England at Malahide – match report

3 minute readChuck writes: The last time Ireland played England in a one-day international in Malahide, Dublin, in 2013, I injured my back whilst emptying the dishwasher (at home, not in Malahide). This year, to avoid any such health and safety issues, I took myself along to the rematch instead, with a

June 17, 2015 Extras

Cricket gold amid the everyday silt

< 1 minute readAll Out Cricket have a regular feature where a writer celebrates an especially glorious summer and all the great memories it brings back. We had to rewrite ours because the first draft was too depressing. Our Golden Summer was 2000. Obviously it’s not. Obviously it’s 2005. But they can’t have