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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)


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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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)

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!
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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)

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)

It’s a great era for run-ups. As well as Friedel de Wet’s bunny-hop, we also have Naeem Islam’s high-step.
Just as he’s about to enter his delivery stride, his right leg suddenly tries to knee him in the face. ItR...(more)


If Sachin Tendulkar hits exactly 100 and another batsman hits exactly 100, Sachin Tendulkar is top scorer.
When Sachin Tendulkar gets bowled, it is only because he can hear the thoughts of wood and one of the stumps has insulted him. The wo...(more)
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Due respect to Saeed Anwar, but from the minute Zimbabwe’s Charles Coventry equalled his world record ODI score of 194 against Bangladesh, someone needed to go past it.
That someone was Sachin Tendulkar. There are some pretty ordinar...(more)
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Like Andrew Flintoff, Brett Lee’s had to jack in proper cricket because his body’s had it. Fast bowling’s a mug’s game, but anyone who’s seen our Too Cool mug or our robot mug knows that we love mugs.
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We might as well do our usual thing of formalising our fence-sitting position.
Our initial feelings when Somerset wicketkeeper, Craig Kieswetter, started eating up column inches was: ‘No, not another one. Too many wicketkeepers!̵...(more)


If you want to hear our latest failed attempt to get our words out without laughing, listen to Andy Zaltzman’s World Cricket Podcast. It’s a war we’ll always wage, but will seemingly never win.
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Four years after we tipped him for greatness, Shakib Al Hasan hit his first Test hundred. New Zealand were on the receiving end and while they won the match, their bowlers took some stick.
After dawdling along on nought for an age, Shakib ...(more)
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