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January 4, 2022 Australia / County cricket / England / Features / India / New Zealand / West Indies

17 of the best, worst and weirdest cricket moments of 2021

7 minute readHere is a bunch of stuff that happened in 2021. It is not an exhaustive list, because an exhaustive list chronicling the activities of multiple people across an entire year would take far longer than a year to read. It is just a selection of striking cricket moments from the

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August 9, 2021 England / India

If England’s top three sets the tone, exactly what tone is it setting?

3 minute readStarts are important. Starts set everyone’s mood and so shape everything that’s to come. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Abattoir Blues album starts with two bars that sound like the climax of an encore. Nick then forcefully instructs us to, ‘get ready for love,’ and by 12 seconds, there’s

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February 25, 2021 England / India

The best part of Joe Root’s weird-arsed 5-8 v India at Ahmedabad

2 minute readBusy day. Lots of wickets and even one or two deliveries that didn’t result in wickets. Somewhere in amongst it all, Joe Root took 5-8. For many people, the best part of Root’s spell was the moment when he had 3-0. For other people, the best part was the perfect-o-ball

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August 27, 2020 England / Pakistan

Why Dom Sibley’s bowling deserves the very best commentary

2 minute readDom Sibley’s first-class bowling average is 67.75. The remarkable thing about this is that it means he has taken a wicket – four of them, to be precise. On the fifth day of an intolerably moist match against Pakistan, Dom Sibley had his first bowl in Test cricket. He bowled

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July 17, 2020 England / West Indies

What can we learn from Dom Sibley’s not-very-exuberant hundred celebration?

2 minute readLate in the morning session of day two of the second Test between England and the West Indies, Dom Sibley once again awoke from his fitful batting slumbers and actually hit the ball. This particular diversion from his default approach of not hitting the ball took him to a 312-ball

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January 9, 2020 England

Did you see Dom Sibley’s face when Zak Crawley palmed that catch straight up?

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January 7, 2020 England

Rory Burns and Dom Sibley could be one of the all-time great aesthetically displeasing opening partnerships

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