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November 4, 2008 India / South Africa

Anil Kumble retires as India’s top Test wicket taker

2 minute readPeople still slag Anil Kumble off for bowling too fast and not turning the ball. It’s not really the point. 619 Test wickets say that he’s right and they’re wrong. Kumble never spun the ball much – it’s not a recent thing – yet he’s been the best spin bowler

November 4, 2008 Pakistan

Mohammad Yousuf joins the ICL

< 1 minute readWell this is a steaming pile of brown stuff. Mohammad Yousuf is probably one of the top Test batsmen in the world and Pakistan have a policy of banning ICL players from the national side. That said, the way the Pakistan Cricket Board found out is quite amusing. They phoned

November 3, 2008 West Indies

Stanford 20/20 VIP party

3 minute readWe were given VIP tickets to a Stanford party at The Living Room in Manchester. We had to wear shoes instead of trainers. Having to wear shoes instead of trainers tends to mean a venue is ‘not our sort of place’. The evening revolved around showing the match on the

October 31, 2008 Regulars

Ask the ‘expert’: How do you keep your flannels so immaculate?

< 1 minute readIf you’ve a question for Laurence Elderbrook, email us. Suave writes: I would like to ask how he keeps his flannels so immaculate? Being a fellow suave fella, I need to know these things, so I can look impeccable whilst missing a straight one. While Jo-Fitz asks the same question,

October 31, 2008 Australia / India

VVS Laxman hits another double hundred against Australia

< 1 minute read‘VVS Laxman. How would you rate this among your double hundreds against Australia?’ ‘I would say it was the worst’. No-one asked that really, because everyone knows Laxman’s 281 at Eden Gardens is his best innings. With six hundreds against them and an average of 54, Australia must hate VVS

October 30, 2008 West Indies

Stanford Super Series match reports

< 1 minute readThe world of cricket seems to be working itself into a state of rare fervour about the Stanford 20/20 for $20million thing. Cricket’s dead, they say. All plant and animal life too. Probably. We’ve been quite reassured by it all. If absolutely EVERYONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD hates it and

October 30, 2008 Australia

Matthew Hayden: the batsman, the weapon, the legend

< 1 minute readMatthew Hayden may have scored 42 runs in four innings, but according to him, it’s the WAY that he’s scored those runs that has been so vital to Australia’s ongoing success… “I think, more than anything, I am such a weapon here, because when I started attacking, they just got

October 29, 2008 Australia / India

Gautam Gambhir against Australia

< 1 minute readAnd Gambhir wins! That seems to be the way this is working. It was four years between Gautam Gambhir’s first and second Test hundreds. Now he’s hit two in two innings. He’s basically an attacking batsman who doesn’t feel he HAS to attack, which is pretty much what you want

October 29, 2008 West Indies

Stanford Twenty20 prize and trophy

2 minute readHow much do you care that this match is for $20million? Would you care ten times as much if it were 20/20 for $200 million? No. Would you balls. So how could Sir Allen Stanford possibly pique your interest? What prize might get you interested in the outcome of this

October 28, 2008 West Indies

Stanford 20/20 – what happens if there’s rain?

< 1 minute readIt’s a shame the Stanford 20/20 for 20 match is floodlit, because a match of this financial magnitude being abandoned because of bad light would be too gloriously hilarious for words. There could be rain delays though and we wouldn’t bet against it. At times cricket can seem wilfully offended