< 1 minute readIt’s the oh-so-rare 12″ version of Blue Monday by New Order. No, not really. They just won a game by a record margin. ‘Win’ is a noun in this instance. Oh the fun of pretending that nouns are in fact verbs. Don’t say you don’t get value for money at
Continue reading2 minute readWe’re brilliant at this whole ‘identifying players to watch during the World Cup‘ thing, just so long as you’re not too rigid about which World Cup we were talking about. Chris Gayle might have gone for a duck yesterday, but earlier in the tournament he hit the first ever international
Continue reading< 1 minute readHe was a reluctant captain. He was a reluctant wicketkeeper. When will people realise: All Rahul Dravid is interested in is batting. And batting and batting and batting. Fancy a bowl, Rahul?
Continue reading< 1 minute read‘It’ being ‘scoring runs against Zimbabwe’. Despite forgetting that he was right-handed for much of his innings, everyone’s most/least favourite bludgeoner hit 79 off 37 balls after England had lost a few early wickets. England also won by quite a margin, opening up the possibility that they could knock Australia
Continue reading< 1 minute readFrom what would appear to be our Kent Pro40 correspondent, Lemon Bella: I forgot that this match started an hour earlier than usual, so I didn’t have time to get lunch ready. This meant I arrived at the ground armed only with some dried apricots and a bottle of water.
Continue reading2 minute readBecause the Twenty20 World Cup is Shahid Afridi’s, surely. Against Scotland yesterday, he hit 22 off seven balls, which is actually useful in Twenty20 cricket and then took 4-19, which is useful in any form of cricket. We originally thought that Twenty20 cricket wouldn’t show Afridi in his best light.
Continue reading< 1 minute readWhat’s this in our underwear? It’s urine. It’s gallons and gallons of urine produced during uncontrollable laughter at how Australia lost to Zimbabwe in the Twenty20 World Cup. It’s been a long time since anyone’s really been able to remark upon an Australian defeat. There was England’s win in the
Continue reading< 1 minute readAt least the recent news proves that Shoaib can still hold a bat. We were starting to wonder whether he was actually a cricketer at all or just some sort of soap opera character planted to raise the profile of the Pakistani national side. We’ve included a picture of him
Continue reading< 1 minute readAnother day, another cricket World Cup. We think this one’s likely to be better than the 50 over one though. Many of the things that were wrong with the 50 over World Cup don’t apply here. It’s shorter, only lasting a couple of weeks. It’s only got the big teams
Continue reading< 1 minute readHo ho ho. It’s an actual… Ah, you get the drift. Let’s discuss whose bird’s the nicer: Kevin’s or Stuart’s.
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