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September 1, 2011 Australia / Sri Lanka

A good pitch in Galle in Sri Lanka

< 1 minute readWe haven’t seen today’s play in the first Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, but having seen yesterday’s we’re opting to be quietly impressed rather than blown away by Nathan Lyon’s debut, despite the fact that he took 5-34 in Sri Lanka’s first innings. Why? Because he is bowling on

August 31, 2011 India

That’s Dr Dhoni to you

< 1 minute readJust like Ian Botham, MS Dhoni is now a doctor of letters. De Montford University gave him the honour, which led to this quite marvellous photograph: You didn’t have a suit, MS? No? Nothing? No smart trousers or anything? Okay, no, it’s fine. No problem at all. It’s just, you

August 30, 2011 Match report

England v Sri Lanka first Test match report

2 minute readNobody make a Jon/John Lewis joke about this match report. That will not be acceptable. Dandy Dan writes: I was just about to leave work and head down to Cardiff when Mr Puffin asked if he could come too. I said yes and so off we went. We got to

August 28, 2011 County cricket

Mighty giants and flying badgers

< 1 minute readTwenty20 finals day was how the format should be. When it’s all professional, it’s rubbish. It’s best when it’s a complete shambles and no-one really knows what’s going on. Lancashire got knocked out in the semi-final, but we didn’t mind because they got knocked out by Will Jefferson. Despite being

August 26, 2011 Extras

Why is cricket popular with women?

< 1 minute readA comment on this post deserves wider exposure. Viagogo appeared to conclude that they were only selling more cricket tickets to women because some England players are good looking. We asked our female readers whether they were buying tickets in order to ogle Jimmy Anderson while he stands at fine

August 26, 2011 Extras

Liz Hurley, Pippa Middleton and “the Barbie Army”

< 1 minute readWe’d be interested to know what our female readers make of Viagogo’s latest press release, entitled: ‘Make way for the Barbie Army’. Apparently, they have seen a 240 per cent increase in females purchasing cricket tickets. Why might this be? “Possibly inspired by Liz Hurley’s ‘passion’ for the game and

August 25, 2011 Australia / Extras

This has to be the last Matthew Hayden post

< 1 minute readIn 2006, we started writing about how Matthew Hayden spoke bollocks. At that point, his batting drew most people’s attention and it hadn’t been widely acknowledged that the man was sucking all meaning out of words and then piling them together arbitrarily. Now everyone has noticed. Even Michael Atherton’s slagging

August 24, 2011 England

What’s the mace up to today?

< 1 minute readIt’s just chilling out, having a couple of beers with its mates.

August 22, 2011 England

Has someone in England been given a giant mace for being good at summat?

< 1 minute readYou bet your boots they have. The rest of us are just going to have to accept that we probably aren’t going to be given giant maces for implementing efficiency measures that led to a reduction in overall losses in the second financial quarter when compared to the same period

August 22, 2011 India

When Dravid is better than Tendulkar and Sehwag

2 minute readWe went overboard with the Tour de France references last month, so we’ll avoid making one here, even though we want to. Just as you can win the Vuelta a Espana without winning a single stage, so you can be considered the best batsman without being the best in every