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August 8, 2008 England

Steve Harmison batting

< 1 minute readWe’ve said it before and we’ll say it again using exactly the same words, because we aren’t going to improve on this: For Steve Harmison, every innings is like a brief fairground ride with ghosts intermittently leaping out at you, only occasionally the ghosts give you sandwiches, but sometimes the

August 8, 2008 Regulars

Introducing Laurence Elderbrook

2 minute readMy name is Laurence Elderbrook and I am a cricker. No. More than that. I am a damn fine cricketer. I am a number three batsman, as adaptable as I am unflappable. I have all the shots and know when to use them. I am the rock on which our

August 7, 2008 England / South Africa

Can Pietersen affix England’s balls to the magic wall long-term?

< 1 minute readBefore this match Graeme Smith said that Kevin Pietersen might be successful in the short-term via the ‘balls to the wall approach’, so that’s what must have happened today. But before half of you try and apply this colourful philosophy to your everyday lives, Graeme Smith also had a warning.

August 7, 2008 Match report

Somerset v South Africa match report

2 minute readLemon Bella writes: Indian Skimmer and I went to see all three days of the South African tour match against Somerset. We hate the ground at Taunton, it’s rubbish. It’s only picturesque if you look at it from a certain angle, and not once did we see anyone with a

August 6, 2008 County cricket / England

Cricket returns to terrestrial television

< 1 minute readRejoice poverty-stricken victims of Sky. Cricket’s going to be free again. Top Welsh terrestrial station S4C have bought the rights to five Glamorgan matches. All the other stuff’s still on Sky, mind. A spokeswoman for the BBC explained their decision not to bid for any of the 35 packages available:

August 5, 2008 South Africa

We don’t hate Graeme Smith

2 minute readWhile we’re coming clean about these things, we might as well ‘fess up on this one as well. South Africa are probably the least popular Test team other than England (sorry people, but we have a richly questionable history as a nation, largely at the expense of other cricketing countries).

August 4, 2008 England

We don’t hate Kevin Pietersen

2 minute readThere you go. We’ve nailed our colours to the mast and those assorted greys and beiges that you can see fluttering in the breeze indicate our lack of hatred for Kevin Peter Pietersen (yes, that’s his real middle name). More than that, we don’t quite get why so many people

August 4, 2008 England

Don’t totally discard Michael Vaughan

2 minute read“The best thing for me is to try and get back to being best batsmen I can be.” Fair point. If they didn’t have to drop you, you wouldn’t be losing the captaincy and if you scored more runs, maybe the series would have gone better. Michael Vaughan now knows

August 2, 2008 England / South Africa

Paul Collingwood a gritty fighter full of character

< 1 minute readPaul Collingwood is made entirely out of balls. It must be downright murder to walk, eat or do pretty much anything. To get a hundred in what seemed likely to be your last Test innings is one thing. To do it with a six is quite another. Kevin Pietersen was

August 1, 2008 India / Sri Lanka

Virender Sehwag defies pretty much everyone and everything

< 1 minute readMurali. Vaas. Mendis. A pitch with one wet end and one cracked end. Rain. Reason. Virender Sehwag defied them all. Dravid, Tendulkar and Ganguly mustered seven between them. Gautam Gambhir had a lot of luck to edge his way to 56. VVS Laxman hung around for a bit. The tail