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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…
Australia’s selectors have opted for a blend of youth and experience in their recently-announced squad for the 2013 Ashes. Here’s our exclusive Full Toss rundown of the the leading names who’ll be donning the baggy green in England this summer. Zane Bradley The twenty-year-old opening bat and Ashes rookie will be an unfamiliar name to…
It was very sad to read of the untimely death of Mike Denness, the former England captain, but his passing reminded me of the one and only time our lives intersected. I sincerely hope the relating of this incident doesn’t appear to trivialise his demise, but I can only tell the truth. Mike Denness, inadvertently…
England 465. New Zealand 254 & 77-1 Is there a greater pleasure in life than cracking open a cold beer, or a glass of crisp wine, on a Friday evening and watching live test cricket? It happens so infrequently. Other than tours of the West Indies, New Zealand is the only time we get to…
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,…
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…
That unmistakeably rich baritone voice, like listening to a glass of mulled wine. Neither quite South African, nor Australian, nor English, but a blend of the three. Those trenchant, often ridiculous catchphrases, delivered with his unique combination of gravitas and hysteria. These are just a few of the things we’ll miss about the late, great…
India 316. England 216-1. Stumps. If the fairy godmother (Geoff Boycott in a pink leotard and sparkly skirt?) had visited Alastair Cook in the middle of yesterday night, and asked him how he wanted day two to unfold, he might have said something like this: ‘I’d like to polish India off without conceding more than…
‘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…
As you may have read in the news over the last few days, Tony Greig has been diagnosed with a form of lung cancer. He’s due to undergo surgery this week to determine the extent of his condition. I’m sure you’ll join us in wishing him all the very best. I’ve always had a generously-sized…
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…
Credit where credit’s due. The ECB have gone a long way towards redeeming themselves over their handling of KP-gate. If you’ve visited this blog before, you may have noticed that I – from my perspective as an English cricket supporter – was moved to apoplexy by the ECB’s handling of events. They acted with bias,…
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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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