Justin Langer’s three golden rules

2 minute readJustin Langer has a philosophy. It’s changed the culture of the Western Australia cricket team and made them successful. Central to his philosophy are the following three rules: Use common sense Keep things simple No mobile phones at training This revelation comes from within an almost transcendentally nauseating interview. Other

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Mop-up of the day – tails and knees

2 minute readFirst up, tail-enders. They’re ace, but they’re a dying breed. Blame professionalism. Now we love lower-order shenanigans as much as the next person, but the key word there is ‘shenanigans’. A textbook forward defensive stroke is not a shenanigan. These are shenanigans. A tail-end innings should bring all the fun

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1992 Cricket World Cup theme song

< 1 minute readWe try and avoid video-based updates because we always consider people skiving work to be our main audience. It’s hard to convince your boss that you’re working when they can hear a video playing on your computer. That said, this is too good to miss. Has rock ever come any

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T20 World Cup final match report

2 minute readTom writes: I sort of watched the T20 World Cup final. Here is roughly what happened. A motley crew of myself, and myself’s pals William, Lottie and Millie assembled at my house for the purposes of watching something approximating cricket. This was convenient for me as it is closer to

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