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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 read Here 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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December 8, 2021 Australia / England

Let’s start at the start. Exactly how short was Rory Burns’ innings?

2 minute read What is the start? Is the first ball the start? (Rory Burns bowled for 0.) Is the first session the start? (England 59-4.) The first innings? The first day? (England 147 all out.) Maybe the whole of the first Test match is the start. (Well at least there’s rain around.)

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September 6, 2021 England

Burns, Hameed, nothing much going on – and only then ‘the good bit’

2 minute read Plaudits to India, but this match featured a really weird and memorable passage of play that was pretty much nothing to do with the tourists’ magnificent performance. On the fourth evening, England’s openers delivered some incredibly generic, low octane Test match batting and we somewhat unexpectedly discovered that this really

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September 3, 2021 England / India

We heartily endorse Rory Burns’ run-out appeal body language

2 minute read You know what they say: ain’t no run-out appeal like the run-out appeal that comes in the immediate aftermath of a drop. With all due respect to Chris Woakes’ bowling and Shardul Thakur’s batting, the highlight of day one of the fourth Test was unquestionably Rory Burns standing astride an

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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 read Starts 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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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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September 30, 2018 England

Is Rory Burns going to have to give a presentation on industrial piping?

3 minute read Our favourite TV series that we’ve no idea whether you’d like and that you won’t see anyway because it’s on Amazon Prime is Patriot. It’s about a somewhat blank-faced intelligence officer, John Tavner, who has to become a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm because they’re the only

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September 21, 2018 England

Two of those England Test selections are just about weird and surprising enough to talk about

2 minute read England have named their Test squad for the tour of Sri Lanka. Rory Burns is in, Olly Stone is in, and – a mere 10 years after we tipped him – so too is Joe “No Pants” Denly. The Burns selection isn’t really worth commenting on, so let’s concentrate on

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September 13, 2018 County cricket

Morkel Burns Pope (and now for some commas)

2 minute read Surrey have won the County Championship. You win 10 of 12 matches and draw the other two and these things happen. We were checking the averages in the first division of the County Championship earlier today and two things struck us. Firstly, very few people have averaged over 40 and

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