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Yousuf and Younus AREN’T banned for life

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England Held Up By Brave Tigers

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So says the headline at the BBC. We’re so angry about the inaccuracy, we haven’t even read the article. Put yourself into the story. You’re in the England stagecoach, pootling along the highway, when suddenly you come to a...(more)
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The Ipl Will Not Kill Test Cricket

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It’s a well known fact that the English believe themselves to be the rightful keepers of all things good and moral on this planet. The colonialists know best because, well, they did rule the world for centuries on end, no? Is it then ...(more)
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What If...?

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Did anyone else watch the re-enactment of the Wato-Kats run-out fiasco on the second morning of the Boxing Day test? Wat if Kats should have been the one to put bat-under-arm and done the walk of shame back to the pavilion? During Warney&#...(more)
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Mentions: Australia    Shane Warne    Simon Katich   

How Much Is A Dlf Maximum Worth?

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Technically, it’s worth six runs, because it’s how sixes have been branded in the IPL – but that’s not our point. (We’ve made a polite enquiry about sponsoring thick-edged singles down to third man, incidental...(more)
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Michael Clarke - From Vice Captain To Australia’s Second Most Po>

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I’ve done my best to resist the temptation to write about this, but I can hold out no more. With all the hypocritical, holier-than-thou and utterly irrelevant commentary doing the rounds of Australia’s tabloids and broadsheets o...(more)
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Steven Finn Brings Height And Speed To The England Bowling Attack

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Earlier this week, we wrote about England’s back-up bowlers for The Wisden Cricketer, saying they were all a bit samey. The one guy we didn’t mention was our former One To Watch, Steven Finn. Finn actually got picked to make hi...(more)
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Mentions: England    Bangladesh   
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Ipl3 - A Pleasant Surprise

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The IPL Governing Council’s Lalit Modi’s decision to schedule the opening match of IPL3 in Mumbai, a home match for Hyderabad’s Deccan Chargers, was potentially a bullet in foot move. Through the grace of god, or most prob...(more)
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Mentions: IPL    India    South Africa    Sourav Ganguly    Mumbai Indians   

Live Ipl On Youtube – The Shittest Press Release Ever

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Brace yourselves for this. It’s a good ‘un. Here is the heading of the press release about how you can watch live IPL matches on YouTube. The asterisk is vital. We’ll come to that in a second. Indian Premier League bowls w...(more)
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Matthew Hayden And The Mongoose – Together At Last

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Considering that Matthew Hayden and the Mongoose cricket bat are two of our favourite things to talk about on this site, you’d think we’d have more to say about this: The heading on the press release says: Matthew Hayden and A...(more)
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Watch The Ipl Live On Itv4

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Here’s a gilt-edged opportunity to get discarded. Giles Clarke can’t give us live cricket on free to air TV; Lalit Modi can. Pretty much ever since the format first appeared, we’ve been saying that having live Twenty20 ma...(more)
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Yousuf And Younus Aren’t Banned For Life

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Even by Pakistan’s standards this must be some kind of a record. After claiming to be on very firm ground with the punishments they’d doled out, the Pakistan Cricket Board has now said that actually what may have sounded like a ...(more)
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Life Bans For Mohammad Yousuf And Younus Khan?

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Banning Pakistan cricketers for in-fighting? It’s like firing a computer programmer for being interested in Star Wars. Some things just come with the territory. With Mohammad Yousuf and Younus Khan banned for life, there’s every...(more)
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Mentions: Younis Khan    Australia    Pakistan   

Shane Warne Learns Indian English

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Depending on the speaker’s mother tongue, there are different forms of Indian English. Each has its own little quirks. The word ‘the’ might disappear from one sentence and appear unexpectedly in another. The words ‘w...(more)
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Mitchell Johnson Makes Friends In New Zealand

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Indexed  March 8, 2010
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From Fox Sports: “Johnson had come to the bowling crease for the fifth over and was greeted with the ‘wanker’ chant.” What’s the ‘wanker’ chant? Is there one particular ‘wanker’ chant t...(more)
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Michael Vaughan Wants South Africans Dead

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Indexed  March 5, 2010
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There’s a beautifully hazy piece in The Independent today on Michael Vaughan’s comments about South African born cricketers representing England. Essentially, his thoughts about how some South African players come to England for...(more)
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Mentions: South Africa    England    Kevin Pietersen   

Vusi Sibanda Gets His Myopic Eye In

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Indexed  March 4, 2010
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We’ve never seen Vusi Sibanda before today. It’s good to see a four-eyed cricketer do well. ‘LASIK surgery? LASIK surgery THIS!’ he seemed to say, as he deadbatted another full ball. It was pretty plodding as one-day...(more)
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A Picture Of A Massive Cricket Bat

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Indexed  March 4, 2010
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Michael sent us this: Can you imagine the excitement? A bat that massive and seemingly no fielders – cricket doesn’t get any better than that. Scores would be massive! There’d be boundaries every ball! As we understand it...(more)
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Eoin Morgan: Reverse Sweeps And Keeping Calm

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Indexed  March 2, 2010
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Of all the many eye-catching features of Eoin Morgan’s batting, it’s one of the least noticeable which is perhaps the most significant. He’s very, very calm. Eoin Morgan is the England one-day batsman you most want to wat...(more)
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Lalit Modi’s Thoughts On Test Cricket

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People won’t watch Test cricket unless there are day-night matches Time zones, Lalit. Time zones. At least half the matches your team plays aren’t in your country. If it’s all about broadcasting rights then one nation̵...(more)
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Freddie Trueman Yorkshire Ale From Copper Dragon

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Copper Dragon have made a beer in honour of the great Yorkshire and England fast bowler and shite Test Match Special commentator, Freddie Trueman. Having had a pint on Saturday night, we’re sorry to tell you that not all pints of Fre...(more)
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