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June 9, 2013 County cricket

2013 County Championship – chapter eight

< 1 minute readSame teams as last week. Slightly different order. 1st – Sussex Sussex remain top. A draw with Nottinghamshire just about crept into this week’s update. Highly efficient eating device, Samit Patel, made 157 for Nottinghamshire in that match, while highly efficient wicket-gathering device, Chris Jordan, took nine wickets for Sussex.

June 8, 2013 Australia / England

England are better than Australia

< 1 minute readGreat news. We still don’t have to expend mental energy thinking of post titles. It’s tempting to draw all sorts of conclusions after any match between England and Australia. We have just two things to say. The team without a spinner lost The law of scarcity dictates that Aussies will

June 8, 2013 Pakistan / West Indies

West Indies are better than Pakistan

< 1 minute readThis post title policy will come to a crashing halt should England lose to Australia today. An odd and absorbing match at the Oval, where only Misban-ul-Haq and the Jam Shed managed to score more than six runs in Pakistan’s innings. Misbah’s 96 not out was exactly the kind of

June 7, 2013 India / South Africa

India are better than South Africa

< 1 minute readIf we’d have bothered writing a Champions Trophy preview, we might have had India down as fair weather favourites. It’s as much the lack of alternatives as anything else. India have their weaknesses, but despite the absence of some extraordinarily familiar faces they’re experienced and they play to their strengths.

June 6, 2013 England

Jos Buttler and the ramp shot

2 minute readA good few players try the ramp shot these days, but few score as great a proportion of their runs with it as Jos Buttler. At times he seems unaware the pitch has sides, creating a two-spoked wagon wheel behind bowler and wicketkeeper. The Buttler version of the ramp is

June 4, 2013 Australia / England

David Gower is both right and wrong about Aussies

< 1 minute readDavid Gower has said in an interview in the Radio Times that Australia has no culture and that their cricketers have ‘an animal mentality’. He’s partly right, but probably for the wrong reasons. Culture This one’s lazy and wrong. Australia has plenty of culture. Arguably too much. Plenty of websites

June 2, 2013 England

The Chris Woakes quandary

3 minute readHow long does it normally take James Anderson to make 28 runs? The answer is four years. Don’t scrutinise that. Today, Jimmy made 28 off 19 balls. If you didn’t see the match, that should tell you something. Run scoring was not difficult. We’d go so far as to say

June 2, 2013 County cricket

2013 County Championship – chapter seven

< 1 minute readWe missed a week. We’re not apologising. 1st – Sussex Sussex have moved into the top spot after positively obliterating Somerset last week. The central figure was 33-year-old Aussie seamer, Steve Magoffin, who returned positively ludicrous match figures of 12-31. Those numbers look so unfamiliar as bowling figures you’re inclined

May 31, 2013 Match report

Nottinghamshire v Middlesex at Trent Bridge match report

3 minute readGed writes: Daisy and I were planning to go to Malawi this April, but for reasons too complex and dull to explain, we decided to defer our African adventure until the autumn. Thus we had booked some time off work without firm plans. We decided on a spring walking holiday

May 29, 2013 England / New Zealand

England v New Zealand 2013 Test awards

2 minute readProbably should have exercised a little editorial restraint with that last post and gone straight to this one instead. Then again, what’s the internet for if not for failing to exercise editorial restraint? Here are some awards. Ploddiest bastard The ploddiest bastard award recognises the batsman who played the most