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February 1, 2009 West Indies

Lendl Simmons continues a rich West Indian tradition

< 1 minute read Lendl Simmons continues the rich West Indian tradition of having a first name to die for. Just think of the greats who’ve represented the islands: Curtly, Tino, Reon and Vasbert. Our own personal favourite is ‘Wavell’. There’s a great way to test how good a first name is; you simply

February 1, 2009 Extras

Thanks for stopping our website from seizing up in our absence

< 1 minute read We massively enjoyed reading about the cutting of dangling seatbelts by stalkers and the breaking of greenhouses with airborne gnomes on our return. We were also relieved to see that some of you took the trouble to point out news that we’d missed in the full knowledge that we weren’t

January 30, 2009 Regulars

Always watch the ball

< 1 minute read On no account stand six feet away from the stumps and watch the blimp instead. Canny bowlers will take advantage.

January 29, 2009 Regulars

Andrew Strauss miscomprehends Law 41.3

< 1 minute read The batting side only gets five penalty runs added to their total when the ball hits a helmet belonging to the fielding side. You can’t just repeatedly play the ball into your own face and hope to win a match.

January 28, 2009 Match report

Stanford Twenty20 match report

2 minute read We probably should have published this nearer the time when the whole undercutting of the PR hoopla via profound disinterest made more sense. Never mind. Just imagine that it’s Stanford week and you’re sick of it. Miriam writes: The big day started in a bit of a rush as we

January 27, 2009 Australia / Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

Ricky Ponting’s match-fixing shame

< 1 minute read “So one thing I always do is I gotta run myself out early on – it’s much more fun being an Andrew Symonds or someone.” Don’t fear, people. Ponting is talking about playing Ricky Ponting Pressure Play on the PSP, which is known as Brian Lara Pressure Play in the

January 26, 2009 County cricket

New logo for the Gloucestershire Gladiators

< 1 minute read Gloucestershire’s players are ACTUAL GLADIATORS. Who knew? We always thought Jon Lewis looked more like a musketeer, but what do we know? Gloucestershire’s PR bod, Stephanie Keene, said: “We recognised that our nickname provided the club with a fantastic opportunity to link with the powerful images synonymous with the historic

January 24, 2009 Extras

Cricket news can live without us

< 1 minute read We’re going away for a week. We’ve written stuff to appear while we’re away, like usual. You can insult us in our absence, like usual. An occasional visitor can point out some major cricket news that we haven’t covered, like usual. And one of you can leave an insulting comment

January 23, 2009 Bangladesh

Shakib al Hasan is the best all-rounder in one-day internationals

< 1 minute read Shakib al Hasan is the best one-day international all-rounder in the world. It’s official. According to who, you ask? According to maths. You can’t argue with maths. Well, you can argue with maths, but it takes ages and you’ll get confused and bored, so why bother? Just take it on

January 23, 2009 England / India

IPL window for England players

2 minute read A group of guys who aren’t you have got an opportunity to earn a lot of money. The situation is that any England players who might actually be wanted by an IPL franchise will play Twenty20 in India for three weeks and then their next match after that will be