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June 18, 2008 Match report

Kent v New Zealand match report

2 minute read Lemon Bella writes, or rather ‘wrote’. Sorry for the delay. The disorganisation that led to this match report’s delayed appearance is totally, totally uncharacteristic. Totally. TOTALLY… Anyway, Lemon Bella writes: Indian Skimmer and I went to the Kent v New Zealand match. On the first day there was quite a

June 18, 2008 England / Regulars

Kevin Pietersen gets sledged by a worm

< 1 minute read “What did you say, you little bastard?” KP suffered a dislocated little finger and severe bruising to his fist shortly after this picture was taken.

June 17, 2008 England / Regulars

Owais Shah attempts to please his masters

< 1 minute read Bad dog. No Test career for you.

June 16, 2008 England / New Zealand

England win or lose to New Zealand

< 1 minute read This is how you write a match report: a week early. England put on a staggering/staggeringly inept performance against New Zealand yesterday, after a topsy-turvy/one-sided contest in which English cricket/New Zealand cricket/cricket/the weather was the only winner. James Anderson opened the bowling and delivered a virtuoso performance/a never-ending supply of

June 13, 2008 Australia / West Indies

Australia’s batting stutters again

< 1 minute read Is this the same West Indies side we watched letting balls through their legs at Old Trafford last year? With the honourable exception of Sir Shiv of Guyana they were a shower and were soundly beaten in the series by a rather flattered England side. Australia seem to have had

June 13, 2008 England

Paul Collingwood talks all kinds of sense

2 minute read Unlike players in some other sports, cricketers quite often talk sense. They’re even capable of being interesting. That said, there have been some pretty ordinary thoughts expressed about this whole Stanford Twenty20 thing and about the IPL as well. Monty Panesar’s a bright guy, but his comments are fairly typical:

June 12, 2008 County cricket

Lancashire Lemurs

< 1 minute read We’re going to the Twenty20 match on Friday, then we’re away for a week. As usual we’ve written stuff in advance, so you probably won’t notice or care that we’re gone. Two things: (1) When we say we’re not going to be here – we’re not going to be here.

June 11, 2008 England / West Indies

10 million pound winner-takes-all Twenty20 match

< 1 minute read Thanks to Sir Allen Stanford, England will play a West Indies XI for a £10 million prize every year for the next five years. Each player on the winning team will get £500,000. Wish we had the job of picking the England side. “You’ll get half a million quid. You’ll

June 11, 2008 Match report

Durham v Sussex County Championship match report

2 minute read 668 Neighbour Of The Beast sent us what can only be described as a monumental match report. You people are picking on us because we admitted that we felt bad when we had to edit stuff out. Here’s the shortened version: As part of this year’s getting out and seeing

June 10, 2008 India / Pakistan

Young India thrash Pakistan

< 1 minute read Two things struck us about India’s defeat of Pakistan today. Actually, no things struck us. Two things gently bobbed towards us after we’d stared at the scorecard blankly for what seemed like forever. Firstly, India fielded quite a lot of youngsters. Yusuf Pathan’s 25 and most of his team mates