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October 5, 2022 Australia / West Indies

Kyle Mayers is playing Brian Lara Cricket properly

2 minute readKyle Mayers really made an entrance. Since then he’s apparently been training with Codemasters. Short of inexplicably setting off for a run while the wicketkeeper stands at the stumps with the ball in his hands, it’s hard to envisage a more Brian Lara Cricket moment than the six he hit

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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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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 –

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    Doug Bollinger once tried to give 150,000 per cent. Can't remember if he succeeded. Presume not. https://www.kingcricket.co.uk/doug-bollinger-lacks-for-effort/2009/01/03/

  2. Tim on “Jos Buttler has been working tirelessly in the nets”March 7, 2026

    It's quite a precise figure.110% is the traditional figure to use to mean "yes, definitely" in sports interviews isn't it?

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    Asked whether Brendon McCullum should stay on as coach, Harry Brook said: "125 per cent". Which just surely leads to…

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    Yes, it's a shame that wrangling has lost its amateur roots, but this way we learn that Sensodyne is the…

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