Michael Clarke: love him or hate him, at least he doesn’t have a face like a rat. We got two of 51allout’s writers from down under to discuss whether his ex-fiancée was fit, whether Mickey Arthur is the best thing about him and how Pune really don’t need another anchor at the top of an anchor-heavy batting order.
Yorkshire aren’t exactly setting the second division on fire this season, so what they obviously need is a very public falling out with one of their supposed best players. What exactly is going on with Ajmal Shahzad?
After a blistering start, Pune’s IPL campaign has descended into a farce. 51allout points the finger at the man solely responsible.
Not content with watching the IPL so our beloved readers don’t have to, we also sent someone else to Colombo last month so they didn’t have to get their passports all dirty and used. Upon his return he scribbled down some notes about his trip and gave them to us, in exchange for a shot of gin and a life size portrait of Steve Smith that we stole from a KFC Big Bash party thing earlier this year.
In Australian cricket an annus horribilis has been replaced by annus rebuildus. So we failed Latin. On reflection, that’s probably one reason why we ended up writing for a cricket website.
We need you to dig in now. It wasn’t a nightmare. It really is still going.
It’s Tuesday again. It’s Pune again. And it’s live again!
If last week’s round of the County Championship was “disappointing”, this week’s can best be described as “very disappointing” as Mother Nature didn’t so much mock the ECB’s fixture compiler as bully, torment and flush its head down the toilet.
The latest in our long line of winter report cards turns puts South Africa in the firing line, ahead of their trip to England this summer. A series we’re so excited about we agreed to stay off the gin for its entirety because we don’t want to miss any.
The West Indies had a fairly quiet winter, with only a series against Australia to show for their efforts since our last report.