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May 17, 2019 England

Is a Ben Stokes with a rueful smile a diminished Ben Stokes?

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April 24, 2019 India

Did you see MS Dhoni fail to hit the ball when Chennai Super Kings only needed two to win?

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April 5, 2019 India

How has Virat Kohli been dealing with his recent inability to lay bat on ball?

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March 22, 2019 Australia

David Warner’s beard is probably worth talking about at least just a little bit

< 1 minute readDavid Warner looks like the top half of his head spent a year at home and the bottom half of his head spent a year in the literal wilderness. The top half of the head has been drinking frappuccinos and eating plenty of vegetables. The bottom half of the head

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March 12, 2019 England

David Willey’s Alice band has given us an awful lot to think about this week

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March 4, 2019 West Indies

Did you see… Chris Gayle break into a run?

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February 28, 2019 England / West Indies

Did you see… Jos Buttler’s wrists?

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  1. King Cricket on Can Ben Stokes really carry on doing all of the things? And what’s Shubman Gill’s lifespan as a captain?July 30, 2025

    Stokes about the biceps tendon injury, mentioned above, that is now keeping him out of the fifth Test... "It's one…

  2. Ged Ladd on Can Ben Stokes really carry on doing all of the things? And what’s Shubman Gill’s lifespan as a captain?July 30, 2025

    Your point about petulant-handshake-gate reinforces my point about the unintended consequences of excessively playing through pain. At the very least…

  3. King Cricket on Can Ben Stokes really carry on doing all of the things? And what’s Shubman Gill’s lifespan as a captain?July 29, 2025

    And one of Matt Parkinson's seven wickets. Is the second division the only level of English cricket where leggies are…

  4. Sam on Can Ben Stokes really carry on doing all of the things? And what’s Shubman Gill’s lifespan as a captain?July 29, 2025

    Is it time to talk about Rehan Ahmed? I know second division doesn’t count. But flipping heck.

  5. Ritesh Banglani on Jasprit Bumrah Workload Watch… 86.4 oversJuly 29, 2025

    Sorry i just checked back on this comment. I was indeed expressing an opinion (stronger, but in the same direction…

RSS Animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket

  • A cat continuing to maintain almost ostentatiously conspicuous indifference to cricket
  • Conspicuous indifference to Dan Lawrence’s gyrations from a human being
  • Is Winter (the cat) truly indifferent to cricket?

RSS Match reports

  • Real ale and Schrodinger’s membership | a Lancashire v Derbyshire match report
  • Burgers, noise and handshakes | another World Test Championship final match report
  • Tennises, Black Caps and tie envy at the World Test Championship Final | a match report

RSS Cricket bats in unusual places

  • DEVICE NEWS! (A match report being conspicuously indifferent to cricket in an unusual place)
  • A cricket bat in a Pigbag video
  • A Spartan cricket bat in a UK politics documentary

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  • Jasprit Bumrah Workload Watch… 86.4 overs
  • The bowel-churning thrill of the runs Ravindra Jadeja chose not to score and the wickets England failed to take

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