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July 7, 2010 Sri Lanka

Muttiah Muralitharan retirement – knee jerk reaction

< 1 minute readWe’re certainly intending to do a proper Muralitharan retirement post – possibly after his last match – but for now, we can’t be bothered. These are the things that immediately came to mind when we heard he was retiring: Muttiah Muralitharan might just surpass Steve Harmison in our estimation as

July 6, 2010 Extras

Listening to Test Match Sofa via this site

< 1 minute readCan we have some reader feedback? We’ve added a Test Match Sofa player in the right sidebar so that you can listen to Test Match Sofa while you’re on this site. When there isn’t a match, it plays highlights. One, will you use it? Two, does it affect the loading

July 5, 2010 Australia

Shaun Tait’s bowling speed

< 1 minute readShaun Tait is unquestionably a fast bowler – probably the fastest around at the moment. You can tell because batsmen regularly ‘make room’ to play him – they’re getting their bodies out of the way, not freeing their arms. A Shaun Tait delivery was clocked at 100mph at Lord’s in

July 5, 2010 Australia / England

Craig Kieswetter, Shaun Tait and marketing brave new England

< 1 minute readWhen we suggested that Australia’s current one-day team wasn’t its strongest, people took this as making excuses on their behalf. We’re not a naysayer when it comes to this England one-day side. We’re just pleading for perspective. For example, when Shaun Tait didn’t play, England lost 12 wickets in two

July 3, 2010 Extras

John Howard ICC vice-presidency bid – Mani reacts

< 1 minute readTo some people, Mani is Ehsan Mani, former president of the ICC and a man who once mistakenly shook hands with special correspondent Dad. To us and to many of our generation, Mani is ex-Stone Roses bassist, Gary Mounfield, now with Primal Scream and also working on Peter Hook’s hilariously-named

July 1, 2010 Cricket products

Vote for the Sidearm even though it should have a better name

< 1 minute readFrank’s been on. He’s made a thing: “It has been shortlisted in a business competition run by Barclays. If I beat the other two finalists in a public vote, I win 50 grand to help get the things on the market. I’ve had some great support from Goochie, two Floweries

June 30, 2010 County cricket

A worrying Rob Key development

< 1 minute readThanks to Bradders for pointing us towards this: But also not thanks. Pretending things are guns is never cool. Somebody will have told him to do it, but that doesn’t matter. Rob could have gone for bat-as-guitar or bat-as-snooker-cue even. Both would have been better than bat-as-gun. There’s the sunglasses

June 29, 2010 County cricket

They’ve wedged in some County Championship fixtures

< 1 minute readShit! They’re playing County Championship matches. How did that happen? We’d checked the fixture lists and had therefore been slacking off because it’s only the Twenty20 Cup and we can’t really be arsed with that until they’ve finished the crappy group stages. But knock our chicken and chorizo sandwich to

June 28, 2010 West Indies

Someone’s challenged Shiv to a crease occupation contest

< 1 minute readAshwell Prince’s 262-ball 78 not out effectively said to Shivnarine Chanderpaul: “You think you can bat time? Come on. Let’s see what you’re made of.” Why would you do that? Shiv has now found himself in a situation where the West Indies are deep into their second innings, only a

June 28, 2010 England

Ian Botham’s rich mahogany armpits

< 1 minute readNow there’s a post title for you. We’ve had another Sunday post at Cricinfo that you’ll all have missed. It’s about great English cricket embarrassments and we wrote it after England had nearly lost to Ireland in the World Twenty20. They’ve been great since then and we’re taking the credit.