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February 8, 2009 England / West Indies

Jerome Taylor bowls fast, full and straight

< 1 minute readJerome Taylor routed a batting side. You have to like someone who does that, even if they do it against your team. Given a choice between England ‘bowling with discipline’ again or Jerome Taylor taking 5-11 again, we’ll go with Taylor’s display thank you very much. Taylor’s not ludicrously fast,

February 8, 2009 England / West Indies

Take the positives out of that

< 1 minute read“Possibly we didn’t play Jerome Taylor in the right sort of way.” Andrew Strauss The bat-on-ball to ball-on-stump ratio would tend to indicate a flaw in your collective approach, yes. England love to take the positives and they did that here. Unfortunately, they took all the positives from their second

February 6, 2009 England

Ian Botham quote

< 1 minute read“I don’t think it’s going to go away, the technology. I really don’t.” Now we’re a massive, massive fan of primitive flint tools. We’d welcome a return to their chiselled, sedimentary perfection more willingly than anyone. But we’re still inclined to agree with Sir Ian on this one. The technology

February 6, 2009 West Indies

Ramnaresh Sarwan – remember him?

< 1 minute readRamnaresh Sarwan is a batsman who’s tended to do well when we’ve been looking the other way. Early in his career, he was mighty. After that he alternated between injured and mediocre. Now he’s having a bit of a resurgence. Sarwan has an uncanny knack of not doing anything when

February 6, 2009 Australia

Simon Katich grabs Michael Clarke by the throat

< 1 minute readSimon Katich went for Michael Clarke in the dressing rooms after Australia beat South Africa at the SCG last month. You can’t blame him. If we were in the same team as Michael Clarke, we’d probably have drawn up some sort of schedule as to which days we were going

February 5, 2009 England / West Indies

Jerk chicken during England’s tour of the West Indies

< 1 minute readWe just popped into our local Co-op. Two of the staff were looking at a new takeaway menu. One said: “It sounds nice, that chicken and chips.” We’ve got that menu. It waxes lyrical. It says: ‘One portion of chicken and chips.’ Mmm. That does sound nice. If we can

February 5, 2009 England

Hate Ian Bell?

< 1 minute readA lot of people hate Ian Bell – England supporters mostly. Given a choice between his playing crap and getting dropped or his playing well and averaging 55, a lot of people would choose the first option. We’d choose the second. For all his flaws, 26 year-olds who can average

February 4, 2009 West Indies

Sulieman Benn’s height

< 1 minute read“All right Mrs Benn. Is your Sulieman playing out today?” That passes muster. Well done that man’s parents. We’ll go so far as to say it’s a magnificent name. See what we’ve done there? 6ft7in left-arm spinners don’t grow on trees. They ARE trees. It would be good if the

February 4, 2009 Match report

ICL match report

2 minute readJrod writes: Like most people at 4pm on a Wednesday, I was watching the ICL. The Bangladeshi World ICL team were playing the Indian World ICL team. Battle of the titans. Mostly I was watching to see how many times the commentators forgot to mention their correct titles and just

February 3, 2009 Australia

Andrew Symonds continues to embrace tooldom

< 1 minute readIt’s difficult to escape the feeling that Andrew Symonds is being punished by Cricket Australia for just generally being a bit of a pillock. Symonds isn’t being selected for Australia’s upcoming tour of South Africa. It’s partly because he went on radio half-cut and called New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum ‘a