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November 19, 2007 Australia / Sri Lanka

Australia uncharacteristically fail to drive home their advantage

2 minute readSri Lanka have got two really top drawer batsmen, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara, and both have scored hundreds in this second Test. That’s more top-drawer batsmen than most teams have, but unfortunately Australia aren’t most teams. Andrew Symonds is making up the numbers a bit, but they’re otherwise pretty

November 19, 2007 South Africa

Jacques Kallis, interesting?

< 1 minute readWe don’t know what’s going on here. There we were idly reading a short piece about New Zealand quick, Mark Gillespie, when suddenly the writer makes the most outrageous claim imaginable. Will from The Corridor – who knows what he’s on about – describes Jacques Kallis as ‘dazzling’. ‘Dazzling’ is

November 17, 2007 Australia / Sri Lanka

Australia opt not to deviate from the template

< 1 minute readAustralia bat first and all but remove any chance of a Sri Lankan win by the end of the first day. On the second day they drive home their advantage before declaring at about 550 allowing them a few overs at the Sri Lankan openers. That was the first Test

November 16, 2007 Australia / Sri Lanka

Mike Hussey: statistically aberrant and statistically abhorrent

< 1 minute readWhat? You didn’t think we’d come up with something like that and only use it the once. No way. Statistically aberrant and statistically abhorrent – it’s got a rhythm to it AND it makes sense. At least it does so far. When you’ve read it for the 500th time, all

November 16, 2007 India / Pakistan

Sachin Tendulkar tries to camouflage his brilliance

< 1 minute readWell we’re onto you, young Sachin Tendulkar. Just because some young tyro hasn’t learned to turn fifties into hundreds, doesn’t mean we won’t spot real talent when it stares us in the face. This lad’s one to watch. India beat Pakistan in the fourth one-day international and in so doing

November 15, 2007 County cricket

An open letter to Kent’s online shop

< 1 minute readDear Kent, Instead of selling ‘Spitfires geometry sets’ and Kent clipboards, phone-chargers and ‘golf towels’, why not stock a few Rob Key mugs? Eh? Maybe make a bob or two. We’ve even come up with a new motto for you all as you busy yourselves putting non-resilient transfers of Rob

November 15, 2007 County cricket

Rob Key to continue as Kent captain

< 1 minute readNot news exactly, more the reporting of the status quo, but if you’re the kind of website that publishes pictures of Rob Key as a pie in the sky, then you’re the kind of website that reports on the status quo – insofar as it relates to Rob Key. Kent’s

November 15, 2007 County cricket

Bowlers forced to wrap their fingers round pink balls

< 1 minute readThere are some things you just have to do and making a ‘pink balls’ joke is one of those things. Pink balls are going to be tested in second XI matches next year with a view to using them in Twenty20 cricket the following summer and in one-day internationals after

November 14, 2007 County cricket

The pie in the sky

< 1 minute readThe Count Of Montetwisto writes: “One merry summer’s day I was out walking m’ whippets, as one does, and happened across a field of golden crop. I drew a hearty toke upon my pipe and took in the halcyon vista and thought to document it for you all.” What relevance

November 13, 2007 Regulars

Andrew Strauss and Paul Nixon execute worst ever high-five

< 1 minute readStrauss has at least got the basics right, but he has neglected to correctly align himself with the recipient of the five. Nixon, for his part, has fived himself in a last ditch attempt to salvage the five. His anguished expression betrays his true emotions however.