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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,

September 21, 2007 India / South Africa

Another choketastic performance from South Africa

2 minute readWe’re not gloating. England rarely even give themselves a chance to choke. No dramatic knock-outs for England. England exit tournaments quite serenely, moving from ‘performing badly’ to ‘up against it’ then ‘as good as out’ before finally reaching ‘qualification a mathematical impossibility’ – at which point they board a plane

September 21, 2007 Australia / South Africa

South Africa choke in 1999 World Cup semi final against Australia

< 1 minute readSouth Africa needed nine off the final over and Lance Klusener – by some way the best batsman in that tournament – belted the first two deliveries for four. South Africa now needed one to win. The third ball went straight to a fielder, but Allan Donald was already half

September 19, 2007 India

Video of Yuvraj Singh hitting six sixes in an over

< 1 minute readYuvraj Singh starts the over on 14. He ends it with 50. Herschelle Gibbs managed six sixes in an over in the 50 over World Cup earlier in the year. His efforts were full-blooded across the line slogs. Yuvraj Singh’s were just timed. Just watch the delicate flick for the

September 19, 2007 England / India

Yuvraj Singh hits six sixes in an over

< 1 minute readHow bloody good are we at saying other people are ace at cricket? We’re really bloody good at it – that’s how bloody good at it we are. Perhaps it’s because we’ve spent our entire life honing our sense of how much everyone else is better than us. Show us

September 19, 2007 New Zealand / South Africa

Justin Kemp: attacking batsman

< 1 minute readNo headlining effort from us today. World Cup player to watch, Justin Kemp, hadn’t done a great deal since South Africa’s first match, but yesterday he rediscovered runs. Or boundaries, at any rate. 89 off 56 balls is always handy, but when you’re chasing 154 it pretty much does the