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October 8, 2008 Match report

Nottinghamshire v Durham Pro40 match report

< 1 minute read Jo-Fitz writes: The eagerly awaited official switching-on of our new floodlights. Rain. Bugger. Not enough rain to get rained off (unfortunately, given the eventual result) but enough to turn the match into a mutant spawn ThirtyFive25. I arrived at half time (sorry, came over all 5Live there) and marvelled at

October 7, 2008 India

Sourav Ganguly taking his bat in

< 1 minute read No-one ever slinks out the back door, do they? They give you four Tests’ notice so that they can be lauded to the high heavens for a month. Some players don’t even get four Tests in their careers, but now there are retirement articles about players who’ve still got that

October 7, 2008 Australia / India

Virender Sehwag gives his verdict on Jason Krejza

< 1 minute read “I think we will go after him.” Run, Jason. Run! There’s nothing left for you in India. Grab your passport and enough rupees to get you to the airport and just flee. You’re a marked man. Virender Sehwag doesn’t do milking the spinners. If he wants spin-milk, he’s going right

October 6, 2008 Australia

Matthew Hayden finally talks about himself in the third person

< 1 minute read You can tell he’s the kind of person that does that just by looking at his face. It’s okay, we’ve looked at his face to bring you that information, so you don’t need to subject yourself to the same torment. He was saying something about Harbhajan Singh at the time.

October 6, 2008 India / Regulars

India practice ‘clown tactics’

< 1 minute read “So I curl up behind him like this and then you give him a shove.” India’s clown tactics were all well and good in theory, but when it came to carrying them out with an actual batsman present, everyone got confused and Sourav Ganguly ended up with a black eye.

October 5, 2008 Australia

Jason Krejza’s bowling figures

< 1 minute read There’s a fine tradition of Indian batsmen being introduced to opposing spinners, shaking their hand before punching said spinner squarely in the face without warning. And then doing it again. And again. This usually happens before the spinner even appears in a Test. Sachin Tendulkar instantly decided that Shane Warne

October 3, 2008 Regulars

Laurence prepares for a nailbiter

2 minute read It is the final match of the season. We have to win and I have been entrusted with the pivotal number 11 slot. As the last batsman, all will hinge on my performance. Our opponents bat first and I am permitted to field from the dressing room, where I can

October 2, 2008 Uncategorised

Top ten Ashes players of all time

< 1 minute read Patrick Kidd’s already started his fiendishly exhaustive build-up to next year’s Ashes series at The Times’ Line and Length blog. He asked us to supply a top ten of influential Ashes characters, so we did. Our top ten is a personal one really. We didn’t want to produce a boring

October 2, 2008 Match report

Surrey v Northamptonshire match report

2 minute read Marmazet writes: When I arrived at Oval tube station, I had a sudden and horrible realisation that I had forgotten to buy my lunch at the local shop. Eating a BLT and crisps is the main reason for going to the cricket really, cos my mum would probably make some

October 1, 2008 County cricket

Rob Key making the diving stop of his life

< 1 minute read Vin sent us this. It is too exquisite for words. Officially we should admonish Vin for the use of the pie, because Rob doesn’t like fat jokes. Unofficially, we think that if someone’s going to take the time to do a Rob Key picture of this standard, they can do