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September 28, 2007 South Africa

Shaun Pollock dropped for some reason

< 1 minute read42 year-old ginger snoreathon, Shaun Pollock, has been dropped from the South African Test team for the first time. Rumours that South African coach, Mickey Arthur, said, ‘I can’t watch one more delivery from that freckled automaton,’ are probably true, although we haven’t heard it anywhere. Pollock’s place is supposed

September 27, 2007 Match report / Regulars

A match report from Greece

3 minute readMiriam et al. report from Greece where they witnessed the television coverage of England’s not-at-all fictional win over New Zealand first-hand. If you are thinking of sending a match report, consider this confirmation that not only does the report not have to be timely, it also doesn’t particularly matter if

September 26, 2007 Cricket computer games | reviews, previews and downloads | PC, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, Wii

International Cricket Captain 3 review

2 minute readRubbish. Okay, that’s a bit extreme. How about ‘worse than its predecessor’? The graphics are better, but still bad. The whole point of this update is the presentation (nothing else has changed) so it’s hard to ignore. Before, they hadn’t made any effort, so you overlooked the rough appearance. It’s

September 25, 2007 Match report

Kent v Durham in the County Championship – the last three days IN FULL

< 1 minute readLemon Bella reports: I went to watch the last three days of the Kent v Durham County Championship match. However, because Kent appeared to have somewhere more important to be, I only ended up seeing seven hours of play. I put my spare time to good use by purchasing a

September 24, 2007 India / Pakistan

India win Twenty20 World Cup

< 1 minute readHow can a mere 40 overs of cricket contain so many twists and turns? The last three or four overs in particular were dramatic dynamite. Commentators would say ‘Pakistan are almost certain to win now,’ one ball, yet find themsleves saying it was ‘India’s game to lose,’ the next. It

September 24, 2007 India / Pakistan

Twenty20 World Cup final, India v Pakistan

< 1 minute readIf the proper World Cup was pretty rubbish with lots of things going wrong, the Twenty20 World Cup has pretty much addressed each of these issues. There’ve been crowds, excitement, few dead matches and they’ve even managed to get the final that all cricket tournaments want – India v Pakistan.

September 23, 2007 Australia / India

Yuvraj Singh: How much better could he be?

< 1 minute readThe answer, of course, is none. None better. India were doing precisely nothing when he came to the crease in the Twenty20 World Cup semi-final against Australia. They were 41-2 after eight overs. ‘It’s too hard’ they seemed to be saying. ‘We can’t lay bat on ball’. ‘What?’ said Yuvraj

September 23, 2007 County cricket

Sussex win the County Championship

< 1 minute readSussex success. Lancashire disappointment. The County Championship ends in displeasingly familiar fashion. We’re not really that bothered though. Sussex are a great side. There’s Robin Martin-Jenkins, the handiest county player imaginable. A man who’s never going to get picked for England yet merrily scores fifties and chips in with wickets

September 22, 2007 County cricket

Mark Ramprakash’s Bradmania

< 1 minute readThis is Grimlock. He’s a dinosaur who is also a robot. It literally doesn’t get any better than that. At the end of last season, we hypothesised that Mark Ramprakash had been spurred into overachievement by a promise from his father. We thought that maybe Mark’s dad had said he

September 21, 2007 Sri Lanka

Dhanuka Pathirana sets the standard

< 1 minute readWe’re in the middle of the Twenty20 World Cup and what is considered acceptable batting behaviour is changing by the day. Yuvraj Singh’s 12 ball fifty the other day is only three balls shy of the perfect half-century – the minimum number of balls required to pass the landmark. However,