28 years ago, I was rudely woken up by relatives screaming "We have won the World Cup". It is quite likely that Saturday’s final between India & Sri Lanka also ended around the same time as that game in 1983. I was well awake this time around!
I can’t recall exactly when I started following cricket with a lot of interest, but I definitely recall watching games from the 1985 World Cham...
So the ECB have dumped the Friends Provident Trophy, England’s 50-over domestic competition, from next season onwards. There will still be a 40-over thrash, mainly played on Sundays, along with tweaks to the Twenty20 Cup. More here.
More excitingly, England will host Pakistan and Australia next summer. Before that, there will be two Tests and three [...]
Okay, saying England is half as good as Australia is an exageration. After all, Australia only lost 6 wickets to England’s 19. So mathematically, England were only slightly better than 30% of Australia’s effort. Let’s be generous and round it up to 33%. England are a third as good as Australia.
Still, I am gutted we didn’t get the win. A 1-nil scorecard would’ve been ...
So Zimbabwe have beaten both Australia and Pakistan in the warm up matches - does it really matter?With T20 cricket, you can never say. Even Afghanistan stand a chance!I just got my head around the different groups and the seedings and was surprised to see Australia seeded 9th.Then I remembered how they had exited the last World T20 in the first round. Back then they had a tough group; this time i...
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