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Strauss the overachiever
When England travelled to New Zealand for 2008/09, I didn’t realise that Andrew Strauss was on his way out. But then, I’d never thought of him much at all. That’s not to say I ever thought he was...
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Learn to swim, England
Harbhajan Singh has been on the outer for a while. So long in fact that he found himself back in Division Two County cricket playing for Essex. His career was not over, but with Ashwin taking the main...
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The Mendises
Jeevan Mendis is not a good legspinner. I say that as a bad legspinner. We can smell our own. His action is forced, his front arm doesn’t help him, and he sort of slings the ball down in a way that...
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suzie bates is a captain
Some of you think women’s cricket is shit. You have no idea who Suzie Bates is, or who she plays for. But if you watched women’s cricket you’d know that Suzie Bates is a motherfucken superstar captain....
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England are better, Australia are back to back
England are the world’s best women cricket team. They have shown this by regularly slapping the ass off anyone who crosses their path. If women’s cricket teams were villages, England would’ve burned...
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England’s wonder
Four men are hired to save a rich rancher’s wife in Mexico. The rancher picks four people with particular skills to form the ultimate team. The film is called the professionals. Andy Flower is probably...
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sitting in a bar discussing England’s 2012
Cricinfo has a podcast that discusses English cricket called switch hit. Occasionally I am on it. For the final one in the year we went to a loud bar in Brum and we talked about the entire year in...
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Root’s hesitating foot
The ball was just slightly fuller than the majority. Sneaking ever so slightly from good to full. There is no doubt that in another over it would have been left alone or defended with confidence and...
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Broad is no National Treasure
Stuart Broad is the Nicholas Cage of bowling. Cage will take risks, perform erratically, pick terrible films, choose the wrong way to perform a role, overact and then occasionally perform so...
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The “get on with it” army and Team England
“Get on with it,” shouted the angry cricket journalist. This was before play. But during play, at breaks, as people ate lunch or went about folding clothes, many people said the same thing. Why won’t...
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The best eight
“I love this format of the eight best teams.” If you heard it once during the Champions Trophy coverage, you were probably only listening to a few minutes of the coverage. The official memo must have...
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The ballad of Cook’s jaw
Cook stroked his magnificent superhero jawline as the Indians danced and screamed. The whites around his eyes were even more noticeable than usual. It was a look of confusion and defeat. Maybe he was...
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Things we’ve learnt after two days of the Mega Ashes
It was the punch heard around the world despite barely touching skin. David Warner started the mega Ashes with a bang. Many words were written, spoken, yelled. Essentially the whole world decided as...
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The simple plan
James Anderson wasn’t looking at his captain. James Anderson wasn’t looking at the catcher. And James Anderson wasn’t even looking at Graeme Swann in the seconds after his Chris Rogers wicket. Anderson...
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Jimmy did it
William Herschel just beat Australia. He died in 1882 but it was he who contorted Brad Haddin’s face, encouraged the England players to cheer and forced Marais Erasmus to tell Aleem Dar he’d made a...
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Cricket Sadist Hour’s Starc Luxury with special guest star Mark Butcher
Here we talk cancer. Can you feel an edge? Is Watson the shit KP? What would happen if Jimmy was to McGrath himself? Differing opinions over the greatest 37 ever made.
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Ian Bell’s wonder years
Had Mark Waugh beheaded an alien invader with a spork while bombs fell around him, he would have done it gracefully. That was just how he was. It also meant that had Mark Waugh failed to tame a wayward...
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