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February 8, 2021 Bangladesh / West Indies

Kyle Mayers and why sometimes a great entrance is enough

4 minute readIt may have passed you by, but they made a Jesus Quintana film a year or so ago. It isn’t very good. That’s a shame but it doesn’t really matter because sometimes an entrance is all you need. If you haven’t seen The Big Lebowski, the Jesus Quintana scene –

February 6, 2021 England / India

Did you see… Joe Root standing at the other end?

2 minute readWhere are we now with Joe Root hundreds? Last month we were asking at what point a Joe Root innings becomes noteworthy? Our point was that a mere hundred from Root doesn’t really feel like big news any more. It needs to be at least a ‘daddy’ hundred for people

February 5, 2021 England / India

Test Cricket on Channel 4 – a review of the free-to-air coverage of day one of India v England

2 minute readEarlier this week, Channel 4 weren’t due to broadcast the Test series between India and England. Then, suddenly, a couple of days ago, they were. This doesn’t represent a great deal of prep time. How did day one go? Let’s take look at the live coverage, the studio bits and

February 4, 2021 England / India

Six things to watch out for during the India v England Test series on Channel 4

4 minute readEngland are touring India and it’s on Channel 4. Here’s what you need to know ahead of the series (which starts on Friday). First, a quick recap of where we are right now and how things have gone in the past. India just beat Australia away from home despite suffering

February 3, 2021 England / India

Channel 4 showing the India v England Tests* and Mambo No.5 – Mop-up of the day

2 minute readWe’re very excited to discover what level of certainty we’ll hit today with regards to Channel 4 broadcasting the India v England series. At the time of writing, we’re still at “it is understood that” with no official word from the broadcaster and the unit of measurement for the countdown

February 1, 2021 Regulars

King Ghidorah being conspicuously indifferent to a pile of cricket books

< 1 minute readEmail readers: Sorry you’ll have to click through to the website to see the photo. Probably should have mentioned that about a year ago when we first realised that the ‘featured image’ doesn’t appear. Miriam writes: Here’s my cat King Ghidorah being conspicuously indifferent to a pile of cricket books.

January 29, 2021 England / India

The 2021 season is brutal. How many England players will actually make it through?

3 minute read10 Ashes Tests in a row was such a good idea and went so well that the ECB thought to themselves: “Say, why don’t we play nine Tests on the bounce against India? Let’s really focus on that. Then, while they were all patting themselves on the backs for having

January 27, 2021 England / Pakistan / South Africa / Sri Lanka

Root’s Moose Cup Powered by Daraz | Mop-up of the day

3 minute readThree things, okay? Thing 1 Just as with Botham’s Ashes, the 2021 Moose Cup Powered by Daraz seems destined to be forever remembered as Root’s Moose Cup Powered by Daraz. In the first Test, Sri Lanka made 135 and then Joe Root made 228. In the second Test, Root made

January 25, 2021 England / Sri Lanka

Talking points? Nah, let’s just go with a photo of the Moose Cup Powered by Daraz

< 1 minute readWhen we talk about how much players want to win a trophy such as the World Cup, what we’re really talking about is how much they want to win the competition for which the World Cup itself just happens to be the prize. The Moose Cup, on the other hand

January 24, 2021 Australia / England / Features / Regulars

The 1997 Ridiculous Ashes – all six episodes

2 minute readHopefully you’re aware that we (Alex Bowden and Dan Liebke) are doing The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast. Series 1 is about the 1997 series and you can find all six episodes below. The Ridiculous Ashes is an alternative trophy that is awarded to the side that produces the most hilarious and

This "Tim" and "Other Tim" business is terribly confusing for old-timers like me. Similarly, reading about Ollie Robinson's exploits at…

From 92-7 to 358-9 declared, that's quite a scorecard. He just needs to take a wicket in the ten minutes…

Indeed. Unfortunately, the Italian cricket team has a dearth of players with names that sound like coffee styles. Marcus Campopiano…

Genuinely for a minute there thought the Sopranos character we'd referenced above was Ralphie Macchiato. But no, our brain was…

All this Surrey talk lately, KC. Gone soft or summat? Q: What type of coffee does Ralphie Albert - the…

Did you see… Harry Brook’s first ball in Melbourne? Unquestionably the 2025/26 Ashes’ finest moment

Sky Sports has boiled its Ashes coverage down to its purest and greatest form: Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain standing there talking about what’s gone wrong

The 2019 Ridiculous Ashes (podcast)

The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments is definitely out now – you should buy it for someone! (Possibly yourself)

51. Michael Vaughan Declines A Crushing