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A Penny for the Old Guy
On this Guy Fawkes Day, I (Evander) ask the timely question of questions: Did the ringleader of the Gunpowder Plot play or watch cricket? According to our book, the earliest confirmed reference to cricket dates to 1598. This is the … Continue reading
Test Match Cricket Is Back
After a frenzy of one-day internationals, Test match cricket (the version of the game that separates the men from the boys, and the women from the girls) is back! And it’s providing some interesting stories. Zimbabwe, once (late 19990s) an … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Test Cricket, Zimbabwe
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Guilty!
It’s a story so big that it’s hard to know, like the blind men touching the proverbial elephant, just how big or even exactly what the story is. Two Pakistan players—Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif—were yesterday found guilty of “spot-fixing” during … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, Pakistan, Right Off the Bat Website, Test Cricket
Tagged cheating, corruption, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt
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The Reverse
This summer, the Indian cricket team couldn’t buy a win against England, in England. They not only lost every single Test Match, but were swept by England in the one-day series. “Just you wait,” said the Indian fans and players. … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, India, One-Day Cricket
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Trial and (Deliberate) Error
The trial of the men allegedly behind the match- and spot-fixing scandal that threatened to derail the Test and one-day series between England and Pakistan in 2010 has finally come to pass, and seedy revelation is being piled on seedy … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, Pakistan
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Passage to India
While the baseball post-season continues, the world of cricket is quiescent. Only the utterly meaningless Twenty20 competition between the best Twenty20 domestic teams in the world provides any form of interest to those into big-league cricket. By “domestic” I mean … Continue reading
England Reach Number One
By beating India in the Third Test match at Edgbaston in Birmingham by an astonishing innings and 242 runs, England is now (according to the rankings) the best Test cricket team in the world. It’s a position that England hasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, India, One-Day Cricket, T20 Cricket, Test Cricket, West Indies
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Five Fun Facts about the India versus England Test Cricket Series
1. At one point in the recently concluded second Test match at Trent Bridge in Nottingham the two greatest run-scorers in cricket history were batting together: Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar. Between them they have accumulated 27,386 runs, over 16 … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, India, Right Off the Bat Book, Test Cricket
Tagged Graeme Swann, Harbhajan Singh, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Stuart Broad, Tim Bresnan
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The Spirit of Cricket
A game of Test cricket can last up to five days. Each of those days is made up of three sessions of two hours each, split by two breaks—the lunch and the tea intervals. On the third day of the … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, India
Tagged Eoin Morgan, Ian Bell, M. S. Dhoni, Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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From the Finland Station
I (Martin) am in Helsinki at the moment—a place not noted for great interest in either cricket or baseball—but I’m nonetheless well aware that faithful readers will be expecting thoughtful comments on England’s trouncing of India in the Second Test … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, India
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