2 minute readWe’ve had a quick look at the new free online cricket game Howzat, which is due to be unveiled shortly. We’re giving it the royal seal of approval. Gameplay It’s a player v player action game, as opposed to a management sort of affair. Batting is largely as you’d imagine:
Continue reading< 1 minute readAustralia have called up the Victoria bowler Clint McKay, because after being on the road for about nine months all their bowlers are falling to pieces. Who is he? Clint McKay has been selected for Australia because he really, really wants to play cricket for his country. Lots of cricketers
Continue reading< 1 minute readMahendra Dhoni, flustered? India are three wickets down in no time on a pitch that’s nastier than Satan when his haemorrhoids are playing up. Dhoni: “Yeaaaaah. I’ll probably just stick around for 30 overs or so before basically just mincing the ball wherever I please when we get within touching
Continue reading< 1 minute readNot top hats and rabbits magic – the good kind. Shakib Al Hasan took 1-24 against Zimbabwe today. Then he hit 105 not out off 69 balls by way of an encore. Almost imperceptibly, he’s becoming a top all-rounder and Bangladesh’s first superstar. He was even named Test player of
Continue reading< 1 minute readJust the other day we were wondering whether any of Mahendra Dhoni’s millions of fans had actually noticed that he doesn’t really obliterate the bowling any more. Despite the fact that he scores far more runs now, we wondered whether he was largely buoyed by residual love from when he
Continue reading< 1 minute readRecovered England captain, Michael Vaughan, is being interviewed tomorrow (Thursday) and you may be able to have your question put to him if you comment here. We would ask him to conjugate a verb and then watch him fall at the first-person hurdle. Then we would ask him the one
Continue reading< 1 minute readThere are people who only read this site for the comments. That’s fair enough. Really the posts are just pegs to hang the comments off. Sometimes we’re tempted to just put up a title on its own as that’s all that’s really needed. However, what you, the reader, often miss
Continue reading< 1 minute readHow are the next generation of England cricketers going to get the experience they need now that the Home Office has brought in legislation that targets Kolpak players? How will young South Africans get the necessary experience of English conditions to help them earn their place in the Test side?
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe saw an article titled ‘Anderson wants to captain England’ and we immediately thought: ‘He’ll be lucky’. We thought this for the exact same reasons that Anderson himself thought it: “As a fast bowler and from the North, I suppose I’m very unlikely to get a look in.” This is
Continue reading< 1 minute readPerennially sulky, team-mate-slapping off-spinner, Harbhajan Singh, played some demented shots in hitting 49 off 31 balls in a heroic but doomed bid to win the first one-day international against Australia. Praveen Kumar was a handy sidekick, hitting 40 not out off 32. Harbhajan enjoys batting against Australia. If you’re due
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