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April 20, 2008 County cricket / New Zealand

Shane Bond highlights cricket’s self harm

< 1 minute readCricket’s short of fast bowlers these days. New Zealand are short of strike bowlers. The upcoming England v New Zealand series is short of stars. Shane Bond’s a fast strike bowler from New Zealand and is unquestionably one of the stars of international cricket. He’s in England right now, he’s

April 19, 2008 India / New Zealand

Brendon McCullum hits record Twenty20 score in opening match of IPL

2 minute readIf Twenty20, in the form of the IPL, is supposed to be conquering the cricket world, nobody told Ravi Shastri, who was addressing the crowd before the first match between Bangalore Royal Challengers and Kolkata Knight Riders. With an audience already whipped into high fervour, Shastri was given the task

April 18, 2008 India

What being a Kings XI Punjab fan ACTUALLY MEANS

< 1 minute readThis appears in a section entitled ‘team mandate’. Apparently: “We are all Punjabis; by heritage, by birth or by choice.” That’s nice and inclusive and very fortunate when you’re marketing a franchise that doesn’t really have a great deal of regional appeal beyond the name. So we’re Punjabi. Who knew?

April 18, 2008 India

The Kings XI Punjab website

2 minute readNow that we’re a Kings XI Punjab fan, we should probably find out something about them. To the Kings XI Punjab website! It’s loading! It’s still loading! At least there’s plenty of time to get worked up about just how AMAZING the site’s going to be. Plenty of time. We

April 18, 2008 County cricket

We have lots in common with Rob Key

< 1 minute read“I am a cricket nut. I used to drive up and down the country with Min Patel talking about cricket, cricket, cricket. Every shot, every ball, every field placing, we discussed it at length. I am always talking about cricket – I must be quite a dull fellow.” – Rob

April 17, 2008 County cricket

Mark Ramprakash moves to 98

< 1 minute readThat’s 98 first-class hundreds, you understand. OBVIOUSLY he’s gone past a hundred in the match. And obviously he’s not out as well. He’s just returned to the crease and Lancashire’s bowlers will be drying their eyes. Mark Ramprakash has hit a hundred in each of his last three championship innings,

April 17, 2008 Bangladesh / Pakistan

Shakib al Hasan’s first proper hundred

< 1 minute readIt’s over two years since we tipped Shakib al Hasan for great things. It’s been a bit of wait, but he might be getting somewhere. After 75 in his last innings, he’s now hit a hundred. It was against Pakistan as well. Without wishing to be too harsh on Canada,

April 16, 2008 India

Kings XI Punjab IPL team song

< 1 minute readCan’t believe we thought the Kolkata Knight Riders theme tune was good. This urinates all over it. Our sole criticism is that they didn’t use that monstrously fat Sikh singer. We don’t know his name. Anyone? Thanks to Soviet Onion for wasting his work time to find this.

April 16, 2008 India

Choose your IPL team

< 1 minute readWe nearly went for Bangalore Royal Challengers, because they’ve got Rahul Dravid, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Misbah-ul-Haq and Dale Steyn. We nearly went for Deccan Chargers, because they’ve got VVS Laxman, Herschelle Gibbs, Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds and Shahid Afridi. We’re not a massive fan of several of those players, but the

April 15, 2008 County cricket / Regulars

Liam Plunkett wrestles with his conscience

< 1 minute readOnly his angelic side and his demonic side are BOTH cyclopic yellow bears. “Go and buy some honey, Liam.” “Don’t listen to him! Go and steal some honey.”