< 1 minute readA lot of the life seems to have gone out of Sri Lanka since Murali’s retirement. On the face of it, the team’s much the same, but there’s a wrinkling and lack of solidity about them. They’re like yesterday’s balloon. They haven’t shown much heart according to Russell Arnold. Maybe
Continue reading< 1 minute readDear Sirs, We the undersigned wish to register our not inconsiderable lack of a suitable absence of displeasure with the current state of article writing on your website. In particular, certain facts that are facts go repeatedly unmentioned in some articles, certainly nowhere near enough as they shouldn’t be, viz:
Continue reading< 1 minute readThere’s another Twenty20 league on the horizon. Kieron Pollard’s in it. Shahid Afridi’s in it. Alfonso Thomas is in it. Chris Gayle’s in it too. He’ll be playing in Sydney and he’s really looking forward to being there. “What do you call it: Bond Beach? Bondi? I will be there.
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe wrote about Sachin Tendulkar at Cricinfo and, as Bert suggested, we criticised his technique. So far, most people seem to have correctly identified the joke. We feel we’re being sucked in. Next time we’ll write a really innocuous piece about Ian Austin and thousands of people will send us
Continue reading< 1 minute readMaybe if you’re very lucky this Christmas, you’ll get a gift that is so good, you simply don’t know what to do with it. That’s how we feel about Phil Hughes being caught by Martin Guptill off the bowling of Chris Martin for the fourth time in four innings. It’s
Continue reading2 minute readOn balance, we still think that they already had. Others will argue that being bowled out by New Zealand for 136 represents a further low, but we think it’s an improvement on being bowled out for 47. That’s how bottoming out works. It’s not like bouncing back. When you bottom
Continue reading< 1 minute readBut only technically. “I’d love him to be in the team,” said Ross Taylor before the second Test. “I think his technique has improved out of sight,” said Michael Clarke. “If Hughes plays in Tasmania then obviously Chris Martin will be bowling at him and hopefully Martin Guptill takes a
Continue reading< 1 minute readAnd it’s about time. We were talking about Sehwag’s unspectacular one-day record on this site only the other day. He’s properly addressed that now by hitting the highest one-day international score of all time. Sehwag deserves a one-day record – not because he’s an exceptional one-day batsman, but because he’s
Continue reading< 1 minute readNot as good as android cricket now being available on a stick. Yes, that’s right, today’s entire King Cricket offering is a limp one line joke based around our love of robots and our luddite attitude to mobile phones. We haven’t even explained what Stick Cricket is or included a
Continue reading< 1 minute readAndrew Symonds: he’s just a hard-drinkin’, fishin’, pig-wrestlin’ Aussie who’s only happy doin’ outdoors things in the bush. He loved cricket, but life in the public eye was too much for him. The intense glare of the media made him crack. Thankfully, all that’s behind him now and he can
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