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May 28, 2011 Extras

Chuck Fleetwood-Smiths hit Cricinfo

< 1 minute readWe have to plug the Chuck Fleetwood-Smiths (Jarrod Kimber and Sam Collins, formerly Two Pricks at the Ashes) because Jarrod wore our T-shirt yesterday. We had an extended discussion about Jarrod’s mooted attire earlier in the week, during which we told him about the time a friend had seen us

May 27, 2011 Extras

Sri Lanka’s bowling attack without Murali

< 1 minute readOur latest Cricinfo piece is picking up rave reviews. cud hav been more funnier!!! Extremely lame. Nothing to laugh at all who is Alex Bowden? I am sure ppl will remember Murali long after him We thought it was one of the better ones. Have a read, see what you

May 26, 2011 England / Sri Lanka

Playing Sri Lanka will be hard work

< 1 minute readA good first day of Test cricket for England, in the sense that it put them straight. Playing Sri Lanka demands perseverance. It demands perseverance so earnest it comes with a pipe and a scowl. If Sri Lanka’s feisty wins in their warm-up matches hadn’t got the message through to

May 26, 2011 County cricket

Kyle Hogg takes a lot of wickets

< 1 minute readHe took seven, in fact. For 28 runs. That is acceptable. That is very, very acceptable. He’s not quite up there with his grandfather yet, but he made Lancashire’s 328 look as whopping as a medium-sized block of flats, as Hampshire were bowled out for 133. England hold the Ashes,

May 25, 2011 India

Royal Challengers Bangalore get another life

< 1 minute readThose who suggest we might have lost track of the IPL during the league phase may have a point. We were at a friend’s house yesterday and he switched on the IPL, asking: “Is this important?” to which we answered, with some confidence: “No.” Turns out it was important and

May 25, 2011 England

Dropping Kevin Pietersen from the England Test team

< 1 minute readWe’re not a fan of this idea. You might say that we’re too easily pleased; that we’d support any batsman who scored thousands of runs for England with unparalleled panache. But you’d be wrong. There’s another thing. We once made Kevin Pietersen say ‘pie’. You can’t buy an experience like

May 24, 2011 Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka are sneaky

2 minute readIf you’ve only been half paying attention to Sri Lanka’s two warm-up matches, you might have got the wrong impression. In the first, against Middlesex, the first day ended with them having conceded 321-5. Andrew Strauss scored a hundred, but so did Dan Housego. “They can’t bowl,” said Robert Baby-Bunting

May 23, 2011 County cricket / Sri Lanka

The Roof at Lancashire

< 1 minute readWe didn’t cover Lancashire’s Roses victory over Yorkshire at the weekend because – you know – sometimes you just can’t be bothered. That win took Lancashire to the top of the table and one of the big contributors has been The Roof, Farveez Maharoof, who is rapidly turning into a

May 22, 2011 England

Having Eoin Morgan in the Test team is no bad thing

< 1 minute readNot sure if this opinion is even a slightly different shade of grey to the one the other day. Morgan or Bopara? Sounds like it was close. The national selector, Geoff Miller, said: “The controlled innings that Eoin played just gave him the nod.” When a batsman is being picked

May 20, 2011 England

Having Eoin Morgan in reserve is no bad thing

< 1 minute readWe’ve a lot of time for both Ravi Bopara and Eoin Morgan. Far from feeling it necessary to identify one as being a better bet for the Test team, we’re simply happy that one of them misses out. The true strength of the great Australian Test teams of yesteryear was