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July 9, 2014 England / India

Murali Vijay’s straight bat against England’s ‘worthy’ bowling

< 1 minute readThere’s been a fair amount of whinging about the slowness and lowness of the pitch – and not without cause – but it strikes us that really good bowling attacks don’t happen across dead pitches very often. England’s is not a really good bowling attack. The point of Test cricket

July 8, 2014 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

All Out Cricket fantasy game for England v India series

< 1 minute readIf you don’t already know, All Out Cricket magazine do a fantasy league thing. We’ve entered and set up a mini league. If you want to join and compete against us, it’s called The Kingdom and the not-so-secret key to gain access is ‘Rob Key’. Our team’s called The Courtiers.

July 8, 2014 England

“People want to see runs”

< 1 minute readPeople are always saying this. It drives us mental. They say it like it’s a fact. Stuart Broad’s the latest. “I think Test wickets should be flat, no doubt, because the crowds want to come and see runs scored.” No we don’t. The most boring days we’ve ever seen have

July 7, 2014 England

Article about English county cricketer fails to dwell on his chances of playing for England

< 1 minute readThere is more than one thing to celebrate regarding Andrew Flintoff’s return to competitive cricket, but surely this is the greatest. A county match report which doesn’t go on and on about how some no-mark is ‘pushing for selection’ is a rare thing indeed. Okay, so in this instance the

July 5, 2014 England

Andrew Strauss lets rip about Kevin Pietersen

< 1 minute readApparently Andrew Strauss has been caught calling Kevin Pietersen ‘the C-word’ during a commentary stint. He thought he was off-air, but they were actually still broadcasting in Australia. Being as this is Strauss, we’re presuming that the word used was ‘cad’. We’re quite taken aback by this. Our guess would

July 4, 2014 Extras

Before we get into England v India

< 1 minute readCan we just remind you that we also write a Tour de France website. The race starts tomorrow and the first three days promise to be ‘a big deal’ because they’re in the UK. Stage two on Sunday is the one we’re most looking forward to, but we’ll be covering

July 3, 2014 England

Which fast-medium all-rounders should England pick?

< 1 minute readShould they pick the batsman who bowls slippery fast-medium (Ben Stokes), the fast-medium bowler who can bat (Chris Jordan), the faster fast-medium bowler who can bat (Liam Plunkett) or the fast-medium bowler who really can bat (Chris Woakes)? All are good players, but even an eskimo may from time to

July 2, 2014 Match report

Middlesex v Lancashire in the County Championship – match report

3 minute readGed writes: Over Easter, the Lancastrian nephew-in-law, Escamillo Escapillo (EE) and I schemed to meet up for the Middlesex v Lancashire fixture at Lord’s this year, even if we could only manage half-a-day off during the working week. In the flurry of subsequent e-mails and texts, I said that I

July 1, 2014 Extras

The cult of digging in

< 1 minute readOver the weekend, Cricinfo published an article of ours about the English hatred of ‘giving it away’ and how it gives rise to a way of batting which is fundamentally unproductive. It’s called Why so passive, England? and it’s another angle on the whole proactive batting thing we’ve been so

June 30, 2014 New Zealand

The New Zealand team is a sperm whale

< 1 minute readSperm whales have pretty small brains. If you saw one, it would look massive, but they’re small brains in relative terms because sperm whales are massively massive. In Moby Dick, Herman Melville makes the case that the small brain is compensated for by the whale’s giant vertebrae, the first few