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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.

June 27, 2010 England

England cricketers taking penalties

< 1 minute readWorst. Collection of nicknames. Everrrrrr. You can watch England’s cricketers taking penalties here. We’d have put the video on this page, but there isn’t a YouTube option small enough. A site redesign is probably in the offing, but really, how often do we feature videos? It can wait. The video’s

June 25, 2010 Australia

Australia’s second-best ODI bowlers

< 1 minute readThe story at the moment is ‘liberated England’ – daring, dashing World Twenty20 champions who play with no fear. That’s the official line, but we’re looking at an Australian one-day international (ODI) bowling attack that’s shorn of Mitchell Johnson, Peter Siddle, Ben Hilfenhaus and even Ryan Harris. You could also

June 24, 2010 Match report

Royal Challengers Bangalore v Mumbai Indians‏ match report

2 minute readRitesh writes: This was my third game at the ground during this year’s IPL. At the previous game, my marriage was almost destroyed when the missus and I had to wait in line for an hour and subsequently had to sit on hard concrete rafters approximately at square leg. So

June 23, 2010 England

We’re pacing ourself like Eoin Morgan

< 1 minute readApologies for the delay. We’ve a new internet provider and getting back online is never easier than pushing string. Eoin Morgan’s hundred against Australia is worthy of high praise, but if we’ve learnt anything from the serious-faced Paddy finishotron, it’s to pace yourself. We’ve got to leave ourself room for

June 22, 2010 Australia / England

The context of England v Australia

< 1 minute readEngland are playing Australia today. We imagined the team talk for Cricinfo and they gave us our usual Sunday slot. We also wrote about why context matters for the Wisden Cricketer, but it’s not actually about England v Australia. It’s about the Twenty20 Cup.

June 21, 2010 England

England football fans and cricket

< 1 minute readThis is cricket-related. Stick with it. Supporting a football club is basically just supporting a business. It feels like supporting Sony or someone. However, we can still watch international football. We can still watch the World Cup. On Saturday, we watched England’s footballers give a performance of such breathtaking ineptitude

June 18, 2010 England

Kevin Pietersen’s tough life

< 1 minute readKevin Pietersen is leaving Hampshire. “Geographically, it just doesn’t work – I live in Chelsea.” Our commute isn’t that bad, but unlike Pietersen we have to do it far more than once every two years.

June 17, 2010 Regulars

A different Monty being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

< 1 minute readDandy Dan writes: When visiting my friends Simon and Esther in Durham, I couldn’t help notice their cat Monty being conspicuously indifferent to the cricket. However, what we can see from this photo is that Mohammed Ashraful has obviously sensed Monty’s indifference to him and his batting, so has decided