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June 10, 2009 Australia / Extras

Richie Benaud appearing on Channel 5’s Ashes highlights show but unfortunately it’s a no-go zone for viewers

< 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

June 10, 2009 County cricket / England

What is going on in terms of cricket this summer?

2 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,

June 9, 2009 County cricket / Extras

Writing for Cricinfo

< 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…

June 9, 2009 Australia

What can Australia do with their fortnight off?

< 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

June 8, 2009 England / Extras

Meet Darren Gough

< 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

June 8, 2009 Extras / India

Meet Sachin Tendulkar

< 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

June 8, 2009 England

Taking risks when batting in Twenty20 matches

< 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

June 7, 2009 England

How can we convince England they’re not losers?

2 minute readWe wrote this for a grown-up website, but they didn’t want it, so we’re fobbing it off on you lot instead… Dress them in orange and change their names From the Pavilion End, James Van Andersen; and from the Nursery End, Stuart den Broad. Feed them spinach Tell them it’ll

June 6, 2009 Australia / West Indies

Chris Gayle is awesome at Twenty20

< 1 minute readAmid all the furore when Chris Gayle said he wouldn’t be all that sad if Test cricket died, one key fact slipped into the background: Chris Gayle is phenomenally good at this form of the game. Why wouldn’t he prefer it? Gayle is an exceptional Twenty20 batsman. Arguably the best

June 6, 2009 Associates

Darron Reekers – Netherlands opening batsman and short-term cult hero

< 1 minute readIs there anything on earth that can’t be improved by the presence of a fat man who achieves his ends using amateurism and brute force? No, of course there isn’t. Think of Walter in The Big Lebowski. “You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens?” Incidentally, here’s a surreally