Action! Drama! Suspense! None of these and less will be on show in the latest eagerly anticipated ODI series to grace our televisions.
In crusading terms, the current Channel Nine effort is right up there with the Fourth Crusade in terms of planning and foresight. They may ultimately succeed, but in the end everyone will lose.
Cheap bum jokes! Business concepts! Charts! References to Cameroon gaining independence! Our latest Scorer’s Notes piece has all this and more.
Australia have been in the position of being ‘shit, but getting less shit’ for quite some time now. We assess what’s holding them back from progressing to ‘only a little bit shit’ in the near future.
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.
To celebrate Australia Day the 51allout crew all got together to slag off Australia’s ODI side. And England’s ODI side. And New Zealand’s ODI side, which seems particularly harsh. Plus the final word on the Big Bash.
Australia vs. Sri Lanka was such an exciting series that we couldn’t risk reviewing it, in case somebody got too hot under the collar and fainted. Hence we just put two men in a room with some gin and made them talk vaguely about it instead.
Whenever we are feeling sad, we just think of Australian spinners, and then suddenly we don’t feel quite so bad.
England continued to tumble down the cliff of eternal doom with another mostly crap one day defeat in India.
James Tredwell is proving to be a handy bowler for England. But aren’t there other options to explore?