In a rare moment of clarity, the shadowy figure who organises cricket tours like a master puppeteer has managed to schedule this one the right way around. A T20 series gets England’s visit to New Zealand under way. And boy are we excited.
After nine months of tension and excitement, IPL 6 began limbering up for action last weekend with its traditional annual demonstration of unseemly excess.
Like a beautiful, glorious phoenix, England rose from the ashes of a couple of rubbish performances to win the toss and thus add a healthy dose of respectability to their series defeat.
England continued to tumble down the cliff of eternal doom with another mostly crap one day defeat in India.
A cracking start to the one-day series gives birth to an unlikely hero.
England have a huge 2013 ahead of them, and they say you should always lead with a joke…
Fights were the order of the day in the Big Bash this week, after Marlon Samuels swiped the last of the popcorn chicken.
2012 was probably not in the top two years of India’s decade.
The 51allout team have literally never been this excited about anything before
England have outcricketed India from the moment MS Dhoni won the toss in Mumbai and there was to be no let up on the final day of the series.