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October 23, 2008 Match report

Middlesex v Gloucestershire County Championship match report

2 minute readQuick recap of our submission guidelines for match reports: (1) Don’t mention the cricket. Ged Ladd writes: The weather forecast for day three had looked far from promising all week and so waking up to rain and a dismal forecast came as a disappointment but no surprise. My guest, Charley

October 22, 2008 County cricket / India

Lancashire sign VVS Laxman

< 1 minute readVVS Laxman is a great player who doesn’t play one-day internationals or Twenty20 internationals. He’s been at Lancashire before and done extremely well and everyone like him. Good signing. It also bolsters Lancashire’s batting, which needs a little bit of enbolsterment right now. Hopefully the enbolstery brought by Laxman will

October 22, 2008 Australia

Australian Test batting averages

2 minute readTell you which two players have scored most runs for Australia over the last ten or fifteen years: Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. Stick with us on this.

October 21, 2008 Bangladesh / New Zealand

Daniel Vettori – the premier slow left-arm all-rounder

< 1 minute readDaniel Vettori took 9-133 in this Test. Shakib al Hasan took 9-116. Daniel Vettori hit 76 in his second innings. Shakib al Hasan hit 71. Daniel Vettori hit 55 not out in his first innings. Shakib al Hasan got five. Daniel Vettori wins. New Zealand win. Shakib al Hasan loses.

October 21, 2008 India

‘Cricketainment’ – has it come to this?

< 1 minute readOne thing we know about people: they love to get wound up about stuff. People love getting irritated, even incensed by things they could so easily avoid. Nowhere is this more true than on the internet. So if you’re one of those people, steel yourself for a good old fashioned

October 20, 2008 Australia / India

Australia, a young team in transition, look to the positives

< 1 minute readAnd other such euphemisms. Whatever happens tomorrow, it’s been years since Australia were bossed about like this. They’ve lost Tests over the last few years, but those losses have often been helter skelter, chaotic affairs. This is different. Australia are being dictated to. Ever since Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly

October 19, 2008 Australia / India

Amit Mishra takes five wickets on Test debut

2 minute readIn Sri Lanka, earlier this year, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh were outbowled to a frightening degree by Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis. With their spin bowlers stumbling somewhat and Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma doing as good a job as all four Aussie quicks put together in the first

October 18, 2008 Bangladesh / New Zealand

Shakib al Hasan becomes a Test player

< 1 minute readShakib al Hasan has played six Tests before this current one against New Zealand, but he hasn’t hit a fifty and before today he was averaging over a hundred with the ball. Not any more. After Bangladesh recovered from a rocky start to their innings to post a mediocre 245,

October 18, 2008 India / Sri Lanka

Sachin Tendulkar has the most Test runs

< 1 minute readNo-one’s scored more Test runs than Sachin Tendulkar and after passing Brian Lara’s record, he went on to pass 12,000 runs as well. We’d say that he was the first to do so, but you can probably deduce that easily enough. It is very hard to express the significance of

October 17, 2008 Regulars

Ask the ‘expert’: Is your genius as admired on civvy street?

< 1 minute readAs promised, here is the first installment of our new feature where readers ask delusional sociopath, Laurence Elderbrook, whatever question they want and he rambles on about himself for a bit in response. If you’ve a question for the turgid buffoon, email us. First up, Lisa: Is your genius as