Right. We’re nearly ready for the off. Andrew Miller
and George Binoy are my two colleagues at Trent Bridge. Dale Steyn’s opening
and it’ll be Ravi Bopara to face the first ball. What an atmosphere
Anthem watch (Eng) This is rousing. Mascarenhas
looks confused; Foster and [...]
And so it came to pass that England’s chaotic campaign encountered the emotionless machine that is South Africa. And lo, a crushing did ensue. A packed and anticipatory crowd flocked to Trent Bridge - the true home of English cricket, in the opinion of David Hussey - but all they witnessed on their evening out [...]
Arafat to open - and the noise is something to behold!
Bopara jogs out with Wright. Here we go. "I really liked
the comment made by "Miaow". He has a very good point indeed," says Arzoo.
Woof.
Anthem-watch 2 Collingwood’s singing - there’s
[...]
England kept its Twenty20 World Cup hopes alive after beating Pakistan by 48 runs at The Oval on Sunday.
Kevin Pietersen struck 58 and Stuart Broad took 3-17 as England qualified for the Super 8 stage thanks to its superior run rate.
“Our approach from the first ball was purposeful and that was the way we needed [...]
Netherlands form a cuddle-huddle - they’re really, really fired up for this. Bopara and Wright are the openers. Australia’s Netherlands’ Dirk Nannes has the ball. Here we go…
England’s anthem drones out of the speakers - Swann’s belting it out, good on you Graeme. Collingwood, too, is stretching those vocal chords. Not a whimper from Anderson, [...]
Once derided as cheap, sensationalist cricket, Twenty20 could take another step towards becoming the dominant form of the game when its second World Cup begins Friday at Lord’s.
The tournament begins with England taking on rank outsiders the Netherlands - and having struggled to make an impact at the inaugural event in South Africa in 2007, [...]
Every so often someone at Lords remembers to trot out the line that Test Cricket is and must remain the pinnacle of the game; every time this happens something pops up that makes it harder than ever to take the ECB seriously when they say this. Not that the ECB are the only culprits; the [...]
