< 1 minute readWe think Liam Plunkett’s still worth watching. He’s 23 this week. It’s a little bit early to be discarding him. Ordinarily a promising young English seam bowler could expect to spend the winter with what was the England A team and is now the England Lions. Plunkett did so, but
Continue reading< 1 minute readNot us, obviously. Our luddism is far too deeply-ingrained. Other people. Uncle J Rod has embraced the podcast. Actually, being as it’s J Rod, he’s more molested the podcast and stuck his tongue down its ear. They appear weekly and most surprisingly, he sounds like an Australian in them. We
Continue reading< 1 minute readJoe Denly or James Hildreth? Joe Denly or James Hildreth? Joe Denly’s nickname is ‘No Pants’. Decision made. Plus Joe Denly gets to open the batting with Rob Key. Spend any amount of time in Rob’s vicinity and a little bit of genius is bound to rub off. We managed
Continue reading< 1 minute readDon’t laugh. We’ll admit it is a bit counter-intuitive, but we’re intrigued. Rikki Clarke was picked for England at a young age and while he didn’t disgrace himself, his bowling clearly wasn’t international standard, so he’s something of a figure of fun. Last year, both his batting and bowling aspired
Continue reading< 1 minute readIt’s pretty much April and there aren’t many fixtures this week, so let’s get on with this season’s Ones To Watch. As usual, names will appear below as more are added throughout the week. We’ll give a little away by telling you who’s not appearing though. Mark Davies isn’t appearing,
Continue reading< 1 minute readRahul Dravid hit his 10,000th Test run today en route to his 25th Test hundred. It’s a little bit overshadowed by Sehwag’s triple hundred, but that’s pretty much the way it goes for Dravid. Dravid was very much the support act for Sehwag yesterday, hitting 68 in a partnership worth
Continue reading< 1 minute readVirender Sehwag has now hit the fastest Test triple hundred. He was always likely to achieve it, which is perhaps the biggest compliment of all. A freak innings like Nathan Astle’s is one thing, but Sehwag does this kind of thing consistently. At the close of play Virender Sehwag was
Continue reading2 minute readThat’s not a particularly arresting statistic on first glance, but think about it. When Virender Sehwag passes 100 he almost always hits in excess of 150. That’s something. A running theme of this site of late has been the importance of imposing yourself on the opposition. We alluded to it
Continue reading< 1 minute readWell that’s made the County Championship a damn sight easier to predict. Mushtaq Ahmed has played more of a part in deciding the competition than any other single player in recent years. He’s being allowed to play for Sussex despite competing in the naughty Twenty20 league, the ICL. He’ll be
Continue reading< 1 minute readThe verb ‘to beard’ means to carry out any action whatsoever whilst sporting a smashing beard. India have been on a bit of a high after winning the interminable CB Series in Australia. They’re returning to earth at great speed now, after South Africa scored 540 in the first Test.
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