The West Indies were absolutely dominating the First Test…..till they cracked open the celebratory rum two days early and handed Australia a three wicket win.
The long-awaited latest instalment of the Alphabet XI’s arrives with a T side based around an English core, in tribute to their sensational winter’s cricket. It is not the most talented XI, but with a workmanlike top order surrounding a genius to provide the runs and perhaps the fastest attack of all, they are not to be underestimated.
The first week of the 2012 County Championship season saw Amjad Khan amongst the wickets and Leicestershire winning a game. So basically the exact opposite of everything we predicted.
51allout: watching the IPL so that you don’t have to. Also talking about it so that you don’t have to. We are seriously good to you lot. Here we’ll be talking about Pune’s second game live.
After an entire winter of collapsing in a heap as soon as they saw the finish line, England finally got over it after perhaps their finest team performance since the Ashes.
For the tourists it’s the final stage of a long (long) summer, for the hosts the beginning of hopefully yet another new dawn for West Indian cricket. Despite a seeming gulf in class between the two combatants, it promises to be a gripping encounter. 51allout investigates the impending Frank Worrell Trophy series between West Indies and Australia.
A day of genuine old-fashioned attritional Test cricket in which almost nothing happened, gripping us for the full 90 overs. Graeme Swann’s double strike in the penultimate over was just reward for not quite getting around to the washing up for eight hours.
Kevin Pietersen’s masterclass fires England into a dominant position.
Last week we presented our previews of the county cricket season, divided appropriately between Division One and Division Two. Following on from these guides, some of the 51allout staff met (or did we?) for a pre-season discussion and to make some predictions.
Whoever kept England’s proper batsmen hidden away for the whole winter is a bastard.