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Much has already been written about the events which took place in a Birmingham pub during the early hours of last Sunday morning. David Warner has been chastised and suspended from the Australian team; Joe Root has accepted his assailant’s contrite apology. But we believe there are still some vital questions from this affair yet…
I hope you were wearing appropriate eye-protection during the England v Australia Champions Trophy match last Sunday. The teams’ respective coloured outfits – scarlet and daffodil – would not have looked out of place in a particularly gung-ho teach-yourself-Mondrian art class. The combination was seemingly and sadistically designed to cause a severe migraine,…
English cricket followers are still nursing their split sides after yesterday’s revelations from India, where Australia’s Shane “fifty and out” Watson became the first test cricketer in history to be dropped for failing to devise a Powerpoint presentation. The Baggy Greens also left out Mitchell Johnson, Usman Khawaja and James Pattinson, who committed similar lapses,…
Have you heard the news? According to the Daily Telegraph the BCCI has banned 30 English players from playing and practising in India following India’s humbling in the recent test series. At this point you probably think I’m joking. Surely a supposedly professional organisation, containing grown men, wouldn’t be so petty and, quite frankly, absurd?…
Given all the non-plastic surgery, we weren’t quite sure whether the bloke playing for Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash was actually Shane Warne or not. Now we know. After Marlon Samuels was caught pulling Hussey’s shirt earlier in the day, thus preventing the batsman from taking a second run, bad feeling flowed as copiously…
England 330. India 326-9 dec. England 161-3 Well you didn’t think we were going to breeze it, did you? Much as we’d have loved Kevin Pietersen to score a run a ball hundred and take the game away from India completely, it was never going to happen on this abysmal pitch. All things considered 161-3…
I’ll tell you what I’ve particularly enjoyed about the India v England series. Not Alastair Cook’s imperious form, nor the resurgence of Monty Panesar, not even England’s stirring comeback since Ahmedabad – tremendous though all three have been. No. What I’ve liked is this: no DRS. And I’m aware that in holding this view I’m…
‘The King of Spain’ is taking over as England’s ODI and T20 coach From the moment he gave up playing professional cricket, Ashley Giles has wanted to be England’s head coach. He did everything he needed to do. He cuddled up to the right people at the ECB and was almost immediately made a national…
Do you like the idea of day/night test cricket, under floodlights? The concept is now firmly on the agenda again, after the ICC last week announced the latest changes to its playing conditions. They included, for the first time, a clause which allows countries to schedule day/night tests. From an official point of view, it’s…
If we weren’t doomed before … Swanny says he expects England to ‘dominate’ India’s spinners Graeme Swann is one of our favourite cricketers. We love him to death here at TFT. But sometimes, just sometimes, he’s a bit like that embarrassing girlfriend you used to have – you know, the quirky one you really fancied…
Looking forward to seeing more of this bloke next summer? Me neither. This blog post would have been called ‘The Sunday Roast’, but it’s a day too early for that. Still, what’s twenty four hours between friends? There’s so much to discuss at the moment: There’s England’s selection dilemma – Jonny Bairstow’s century today has…
So Kevin Pietersen will play in India after all. As the Daily Mail might say, it’s a rare victory for common sense. From one perspective, the ECB have finally got their act together and realised that the effectiveness of the team outweighs almost every other consideration. But from another, their choice of language – with…
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“Five hundred thousand for a tin box? You’re having a laugh” The row between BSkyB (an amalgam of BSB and Sky), the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), and the BCCI (which could stand for any number of things if you asked the panellists on Mock the Week), became more hostile today after Rupert Murdoch was told how…
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