< 1 minute readWe don’t have a great deal to say about England getting beaten. We’ve been writing this website for a few years now and it would do us no good at all to dwell on every underwhelming England loss. So we’re not going to. Not on a Friday. What we did
Continue reading< 1 minute readAs we said earlier in the week, we’re sick to death of receiving press releases at the moment, so we were delighted to receive a brief match report from Simon that in no way promotes anything – least of all Snaptu’s free Cricinfo application for mobile phones. “As I sat
Continue reading< 1 minute readWill Sanath Jayasuriya’s sublime piracy never end? He’s 40 in a few weeks time and yet here he is, playing in the World Twenty20, hitting 81 off 47 balls against the West Indies. It’s early days for international Twenty20, but only five players have scored more runs than Jayasuriya’s 424.
Continue reading< 1 minute readRichie Benaud is going to be on British TV this summer. He is going to be working as Channel 5’s analyst during the Ashes. We’ve heard that Richie’s recent commentating has gone downhill a bit, but this role must surely be perfect for him and it must be perfect for
Continue reading2 minute readYou played cricket last weekend and you liked it. You’re suddenly interested in the sport. You want to know what the professionals are doing. Here’s our cut-out-and-throw-away guide to the clean, simple, straightforward cricketing fixture list this summer. First of all the County Championship started. This is in two divisions,
Continue reading< 1 minute readWe did a piece for Cricinfo. Almost inevitably it features Rob Key. The surprising part is that we had never previously submitted a Rob Key article to them. We have a 100% strike rate when it comes to submitting articles about Rob Key to Cricinfo. They are clearly receptive…
Continue reading< 1 minute readHaving had a couple of turd matches, Australia find themselves knocked out of the World Twenty20. Before playing Sri Lanka, Ricky Ponting joked about how they weren’t considering failure because the alternative, a fortnight in Leicester, was too horrific to contemplate. Quite apart from the fact that Sri Lanka are
Continue reading< 1 minute readThis is the second competition to meet a cricketer. It is appearing here largely because we want to publish a picture of Darren Gough with a pork pie in his hand. The competition is over at The Mirror. The prize is actually pretty damn good: tickets to the first two
Continue reading< 1 minute readIt’s probably the World Twenty20 and the Ashes, but we’re getting an insane number of press releases sent to us these days. Today we’re going to tell you about two separate competitions where you can meet a cricketer. This is the first one. It is classy. Sachin Tendulkar is doing
Continue reading< 1 minute readEngland should have learnt a major lesson from their first two matches in the World Twenty20. Against the Netherlands, they thought they were the better team and thought that if they didn’t make any mistakes when batting, they’d win. You don’t win Twenty20 matches by not making any mistakes. You’re
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