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May 4, 2013 Extras

A shameless advertisement for our cycling site

< 1 minute readShut up. We don’t do it often. For the next three weeks (crashes permitting), Bradley Wiggins will be attempting to win the Giro d’Italia, the second-biggest race in cycling. You can follow his progress over at our other site. Like cricket, the Giro isn’t on ‘normal telly’ – not even

May 3, 2013 County cricket / England

Rounded flat cap cricket

2 minute readIf you like certainty and clarity, two-innings cricket is not for you. The format presents you with details and only backs this up with context once the match has finished. Half the joy is in dissecting goings-on in order to try and shape that context in your mind’s eye as

May 2, 2013 Pakistan

We wrote about Shahid Afridi for Cricinfo

< 1 minute readMost of the sentiments have been expressed here before, only because this was for Cricinfo we made the article longer, more rambling and less to the point. We pretty much repeat ourself in every paragraph as well to really drive the non-point home. That non-point is basically that Shahid Afridi

May 1, 2013 County cricket

The best thing about Chesney Hughes’ 270 not out for Derbyshire

< 1 minute readThe best thing about Chesney Hughes’ 270 is that it brings some smashing first names to prominence. A Chesney is always worth celebrating, but it gets better than that. Chesney Hughes is from Anguilla. He was advised to come to England by a man with one of the finest names

April 30, 2013 Extras

You people seem to like this sort of thing

< 1 minute readIt’s an image featuring 50 cryptic clues to cricketing terms. It’s called ‘Whatzat!’ The ECB have commissioned it and apparently there are international and county tickets to be won. We’re crap at this sort of thing. It took us quite some time to work out why bowler hats featured so

April 28, 2013 County cricket

2013 County Championship – chapter three

2 minute readThere was a fair bit of noteworthy action in the County Championship this week. The good news for us is that we don’t have to write about much of it because it didn’t particularly affect the top of the table. The good news for you is that we therefore won’t

April 26, 2013 Australia

Ryan Harris the role model

< 1 minute readFast bowling isn’t just about bowling quickly. It’s also about sitting around worrying about your knee. As such, Australia’s younger bowlers have the perfect role model in Ryan Harris. Harris is injured again, which is pretty much his default status. Really, the news was that earlier in the week, he

April 25, 2013 Extras

IPL teams’ official Twitter accounts

< 1 minute readWe don’t normally link to our Cricinfo Twitter round-up because, you know, we can’t really be bothered. However, we thought we’d make the effort this week because the subject matter might be slightly more of interest to you. As you know, we’re ‘down’ with all the modern trends (it’s presumably

April 24, 2013 Australia

Chris Rogers – one Test wonder?

2 minute readMaybe not. One of first-class cricket’s finest batsmen may yet get an opportunity to play a second Test having been selected in Australia’s Ashes squad. It just goes to show, if you hang around long enough, the failings of the next generation will eventually earn you the recognition you sort

April 23, 2013 India / West Indies

Chris Gayle’s 17 sixes were no great surprise

< 1 minute readThe worth of a Twenty20 player cannot be measured via a single innings. That’s a mistake many people make – they confuse aberrations with excellence. It’s therefore worth underlining the sheer inevitability that it would be Chris Gayle who would break the record for the highest individual score in the