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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

October 16, 2008 Australia

Peter Siddle to make his Test debut

< 1 minute readStuart Clark’s injured, so arch woodchopper, Peter Siddle, looks set to make his Test debut for Australia in the second Test against India at Mohali. Ricky Ponting said: “He’s a no-nonsense sort of guy and no-nonsense sort of bowler who will run in and deliver what you want him to

October 16, 2008 Match report

Kent v Surrey match report

2 minute readJRod writes: The day started well. I caught the bus to Victoria Station, sat up top and wasn’t stabbed. At Victoria station things started to go bad. I had to wait 15 minutes to find out which platform my train was on, only to find out it was to be

October 15, 2008 England

Monty Panesar to live in Sri Lanka for a bit

< 1 minute readEngland have been taking a more individual approach to player development in recent times and we’re all in favour. Monty Panesar’s going to spend some time playing for the Bloomfield club in Colombo. He’ll get more experience of bowling in subcontinental conditions, but more importantly he’ll be dumped there on

October 15, 2008 County cricket

Robert Key fielding a burger

< 1 minute readAll aboard the Rob-Key-fielding-different-foodstuffs bandwagon. Sam sent us this in response to Vin’s exquisite piece of Rob Key art. We asked Sam if he had anything to add that might enrich our enjoyment of the picture. Sam said: “Not really, I think the picture speaks for itself. He’s fielding a

October 14, 2008 England / West Indies

Challenging umpires’ decisions

< 1 minute readThe four Test series between the West Indies and England will feature the umpire challenging system, whereby batsmen can remove one of their gloves, slap the umpire across the face with it and call for lbw shouts to be decided by a duel. Either that or you get a few