The whole world is arguing about Joe Root and Nick Compton. Or possibly playing Pokémon. Here we add our opinion on both these important topics.
Job done for England once again, with a comfortable victory that utterly failed to inspire anyone to get out of bed.
A pretty standard week for the 51allout podcast, consisting of accidental racism, deliberate racism and trying not to talk about Australia. Or indeed anything at all, in one particular case.
Joe Root is so awesome that even Usman Khawaja’s mum has a new favourite player.
The main topics this week included playing Radiohead at T20 matches, loving Jos Buttler and Luke Wright and boldly predicting South Africa to beat Pakistan. Plus the Australia vs. West Indies series gets an almighty kicking for basically wasting everyone’s time.
In the shadows of every success are the nearly men, those who might have contributed but just didn’t get the chance. We look at a few of these shady figures lurking around Team England.
One million dollars for Glenn Maxwell! Steven Peter Devereux Smith in the Australian Test squad! Three grown men dressed as a set of stumps! It’s been an odd week in the world of cricket.
February 28th 2010: England install Craig Kieswetter into their ODI side. March 1st 2010: Editor Steve installs a swear jar in the 51allout office. Coincidence? We think not.
This week’s discussion centred around Shane Warne’s attempts to get all his mates cushy jobs. Plus a debate around exactly where Shaun Marsh ranks in the list of great serial killers.
Cheap bum jokes! Business concepts! Charts! References to Cameroon gaining independence! Our latest Scorer’s Notes piece has all this and more.