While just re-reading my last blog post and going over the England ODI squad for the South Africa tour, I just noticed the surprising absence of Owais Shah. Instead they seem to have replaced him with Alastair Cook or Sajid Mahmood.
As for Cook, he is a talented batsman in tests but just doesn’t have the [...]...
Yesterday in the CLT20 it was a bit of a nightmare for the English players and teams.
Somerset CCC were soundly beaten by Trinidad & Tobago with none of Somerset’s English players bowling at an economy rate of 6.75. Chasing 150 they only managed 106 all out with their highest score from an English batsman being [...]...
Steven Harmison and Ravi Bopara have been left out of the England squad to tour South Africa. Have the selector’s got it right? Half right in my book. The squads are below courtesy of Cricinfo.
Test squad Andrew Strauss (capt), James Anderson, Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Alastair Cook, Paul Collingwood, Steven Davies, Graham Onions, Kevin Pietersen, [...]...
On the official website of SPIN cricket magazine there is a very exciting ’special podcast’ where Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy is interviewed.
I have previously mentioned on this blog how simply brilliant the cricket themed album ‘The Duckworth Lewis Method’ is, also by Hannon and co.
In this interview he talks about the meanings of [...]...
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