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July 9, 2013 Australia

Australia’s spin bowlers for the 2013 Ashes

< 1 minute readAustralia’s spinners are both better and worse than people seem to think. Let’s first be clear that, as it stands, neither Fawad Ahmed nor Ashton Agar are actually in the squad. Furthermore, both benefit from being to a large extent unknown and untested. In a barren land, the distant man

July 8, 2013 Australia

Australia’s wicketkeepers for the 2013 Ashes

< 1 minute readBrad Haddin has primarily been brought back as child minder, but he does average 45 in Ashes Tests and he does look like an Australian wicketkeeper, which is more important than you might think. There’s a chance that Matthew Wade might play as a batsman, so it’s safe to assume

July 8, 2013 Extras

Ashes crossword answers

< 1 minute readWe meant to let you know a couple of days ago that the Ashes crossword answers are now up. There’s a link on that page to an Excel document containing explanations as well. We’ve also added a link to the answers on the original page in case you don’t read

July 5, 2013 Australia

Australia’s middle-order batsmen for the 2013 Ashes

2 minute readWe’d say that Australia were one crankshaft short of an engine room if we knew what constituted ‘the engine room’ or what an engine room contained or what a crankshaft was. Also, they appear to be missing more than that. Flicking through our Big Book of Cricket Clichés, we find

July 4, 2013 Australia

Australia’s openers for the 2013 Ashes

2 minute readWith his perpetually tear-filled eyes and propensity to snap tendons while waxing body hair, Shane Watson always appears a figure of fun. Add in his comedic insistence on throwing his wicket away before he reaches three figures and the boy-man becomes symbolic of how Australia has fallen. On the other

July 4, 2013 Australia

Australia’s squad for the 2013 Ashes

< 1 minute readWe used the term ‘echo chamber’ in reference to the UK cricket media the other day. That was in response to Joe Root worship, but it applies just as much to the way the Australia team is assessed. Half the experts out there are simply rehashing the last thing they

July 3, 2013 County cricket

2013 County Championship – chapter 10

< 1 minute readThis County Championship coverage is hanging by a thread. Honestly. By. A. Thread. 1st – Yorkshire Yorkshire now have an eight-point lead. Like Sussex in our last round-up, they failed to beat Surrey and had to make do with a draw. We may at some point have to consider the

July 1, 2013 England

It’s all coming together perfectly for England

< 1 minute readJoe Root’s geting comfortable in his bowling boots. Tim Bresnan and Graeme Swann are enjoying the feel of their batting gloves. Except for the fact that the batsmen aren’t making runs and the bowlers aren’t taking wickets, everything’s going exactly as planned in England’s warm-up match against Essex. But who

July 1, 2013 Uncategorised

Cricket bats in Jinja, Uganda

2 minute readSam writes: Please find attached a picture of several cricket bats in an unusual place, namely a glass case in a shop in Jinja, Uganda. I took this picture as I was walking along the main road in Jinja, which is a fairly small town about an hour’s drive away

June 28, 2013 Extras

The 2013 King Cricket Ashes and Priestly Vestments Summer Crossword by Bert

< 1 minute readBert writes: I’ve done another crossword. I was going to wait till a full year had passed since the last one, but with the upcoming summer of cricket I thought it would be appropriate to do it now. So here it is – the 2013 King Cricket Ashes and Priestly