The Curly Situation

< 1 minute read Jason wrote to us to draw our attention to his robust, adult, cricket/crime online novel that he’s writing. Anyone launching themself into a venture like that deserves a link. It’s called The Curly Situation. WARNING: The novel does contain a reference to Flock of Seagulls.

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Andre Nel has a request

< 1 minute read Flex your typing fingers. Get them good and supple. You have quite simply GOT to have some comments about this quote from Andre Nel: “When the fans go hard and abuse you, I love that.” That’s a direct quote from a BBC interview. Apparently he said it ‘with a glint

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Ajantha Mendis sorts everything out

< 1 minute read Sanath Jayasuriya might have pummelled a trademark hundred, but Ajantha Mendis won Sri Lanka the Asia Cup. If you want to see some impressive bowling figures, read on: 6-13 off eight overs. Virender Sehwag had hit a 26-ball fifty when Mendis came on to bowl, so the young spinner basically

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The carrom ball

< 1 minute read Ajantha Mendis’s ‘carrom ball’ does look to be pretty much a new delivery. Inventing a new delivery is a pretty brash thing to do. It’s almost like discovering a new colour or introducing a new letter into the alphabet. We should have all the deliveries already – cricket’s been around

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A bit of TWC

< 1 minute read That’s ‘The Wisden Cricketer’ to you. We won’t link to every piece of ours that appears on their blog, but we thought that today’s was ‘all right’ – and that’s a real high water mark for us. It’s more about Neil McKenzie. We don’t feel like everyone really got into

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For this forfeit, you get a drawn Test

< 1 minute read Umpires accuse Pakistan of ball-tampering. Pakistan refuse to play in protest. After an investigation, Pakistan are found not guilty of ball tampering, but Inzy is banned for keeping his side off the field, so they’re saying that while he was right, he was also wrong. Now the match is being

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