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August 25, 2007 England / India

Rahul Dravid’s cool destruction

< 1 minute readSome 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 readAlways 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 readHere’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 readSeriously, 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 readThe 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 readIf 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 readZimbabwe 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 readWhat 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

August 22, 2007 Regulars

A sign that says ‘moron centre’

< 1 minute readTom says: “This is a picture of me pointing at a sign saying ‘moron centre’ whilst wearing the one-day shirt. Rather apt I think.” This is just the kind of razor-sharp, incisive reportage we expect from our readers. It’s the first in a series of posts here at King Cricket

August 21, 2007 India / Regulars

Gautam Gamhbir impersonates a cricket ball

< 1 minute readHere we see Gautam Gambhir sidling up to a cricket ball in disguise. [At least we used to, but now the image has been removed…] If Gautam’s deception is successful, perhaps he’ll get to mate with the ball