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August 27, 2007 Australia / England

Wicketkeepers open the batting in one-day internationals – apparently

< 1 minute read England are always on the lookout for a wicketkeeper who can bat and particularly one who can open the batting in one-day internationals. This is because Adam Gilchrist opens the batting for Australia in one-day internationals and Australia are better than England and therefore must be copied in EVERY CONCEIVABLE

August 25, 2007 County cricket

Rob Key hits 125 against Worcestershire

< 1 minute read After one-day hundreds versus Surrey and Derbyshire and County Championship hundreds against Durham, Hampshire and Warwickshire, you’d think we’d be running out of things to say about how great Rob Key is. Good job we hit upon that idea of asking prominent experts for their opinions after each of his

August 25, 2007 England / India

Rahul Dravid’s cool destruction

< 1 minute read Some observers seemed surprised by Rahul Dravid‘s innings of 92 off 63 balls as India won the second one-day international yesterday. Why? Dravid’s more than capable of doing this. People get blinded by his careful approach to Test cricket, but he only plays like that because he thinks that’s the

August 25, 2007 Extras

Always play a spinner

< 1 minute read Always play a spinner. Always. Always, always, always. It offers variety; a change of pace that might unsettle the batsman. Maybe the odd ball will turn more than you think. Or maybe – just maybe – a batsman who’s untroubled by pace will, for some inexplicable reason, be totally unable

August 24, 2007 County cricket / England

Stuart Broad to join ‘ones to watch’ at Nottinghamshire

< 1 minute read Here’s a short list of some of our ones to watch over the last couple of years: Stuart Broad Bilal Shafayat Will Jefferson Mark Davies What do you notice? That’s right. All of them have moved to Nottinghamshire since we identified them, albeit only on loan in Mark Davies’ case.

August 24, 2007 County cricket

Mark Davies takes seven wickets in an innings

< 1 minute read Seriously, Mark Davies is doing something right. Our ones to watch are worth watching, make no mistake – hence the name. Durham’s 20th choice seamer was given the new ball in the first match of his loan spell at Nottinghamshire. He’s normally more used to handling a malformed ball with

August 23, 2007 South Africa

Nicky Boje knows it’s the INDIAN Cricket League, right?

< 1 minute read The Indian Cricket League is a 20 over league that’s being set up by Zee TV because they don’t have the rights to existing cricket. They’re throwing money at it and signing all sorts of people who are promptly being banned from ‘proper’ cricket in India and Pakistan. One of

August 23, 2007 India

Ajit Agarkar: Seriously, what is the point?

< 1 minute read If you’re only going to pick four bowlers in a one-day game, you’d think you’d want four good ones. Yet in an era where India’s pace bowling resources have never run deeper, there’s been one conspicuous survivor from an earlier period. Ajit Agarkar. His survival is inexplicable. Even more inexplicable

August 23, 2007 Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe have five players run out

< 1 minute read Zimbabwe had five players run out in yesterday’s one-day international defeat against South Africa. We don’t know if it’s some kind of record, but we do know that it’s amateurism. It would seem Zimbabwe are still crap, but in a new and exciting way.

August 22, 2007 England / India

England wallop India in a one-day game – honestly

< 1 minute read What in blazes? What, what… THE DICKENS is going on? An England player scores a one-day hundred. ANOTHER England player scores a one-day hundred. England tot up 288 for the loss of only two wickets. James Anderson bowls at 90mph and takes 4-23. Andrew Flintoff‘s back and he’s also bowling