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All Hail The Beard
On Friday, we named Matt Prior as our Player of the Day for a typically punchy half-century that helped England to wrestle back some control following their poor start. Despite a slight stumble in the nervous nineties, his fifth Test Match century, from just 107 balls, was rightly celebrated on Saturday morning. In the post-Gilchrist […]
Sri Lanka’s New Spin King?
“Never before Mendis has a spinner dominated Indian batsmen so comprehensively and collectively” That was how Cricinfo reported Ajantha Mendis’ meteoric rise nearly three years ago, as he exploded onto the test match scene, taking 26 wickets in three matches as Sri Lanka beat India. Now, 13 matches later, his wicket haul has stumbled to […]
Don’t It Always Seem To Go, That You Don’t Know What You Got Til It’s Gone?
Joni Mitchell sang that. Other than her narrow-minded viewpoint on city centre car parks and allowing the awful Counting Crows to cover her material, Joni had the right idea. Today, we saw for the first time that the retirement of Paul Collingwood could hit England harder than at first anticipated. By the end, Collingwood looked […]
The Technology Debate Rumbles On
Over 18 months after its official introduction and the UDRS is still struggling to silence the doubters. Whilst it has certainly dispatched those heady days in the West Indies, when England first experienced the wonders of the system, into the annals of time, many questions remain unanswered. There is still a grey area over how […]
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