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The Thousandth Test
On March 15 1877, Charles Bannerman and Nat Thomson strode out to open the batting for Australia at Melbourne against an England team, in what is generally acknowledged to be the first “Test” match—a cricket game of two innings each … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, India, One-Day Cricket, Stadiums, T20 Cricket, Test Cricket
Tagged Alastair Cook, Charles Bannerman, Joe Root, Keaton Jennings, Ned Thomson, Virat Kohli
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Move Along, Nothing to See Here. . . .
In 1882, following the England cricket team’s ignominious defeat to a group of plucky upstarts from Australia, an English newspaper, The Sporting Times, published an “obituary” in which it lamented the death of English cricket, and reported that its body … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, Cricket, England, One-Day Cricket, Test Cricket
Tagged Alastair Cook, Kevin Pietersen, The Ashes, World Cup
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Oh, England!
It is now with great regret that we are compelled to talk about the England cricket team—soundly trounced, thrashed, taken to the cleaners (choose your metaphor) by New Zealand in the World Cup on Thursday. Now don’t get me (Martin) wrong; … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Bangladesh, Cricket, England, New Zealand, One-Day Cricket, Sri Lanka
Tagged Afghanistan, Brendon McCullum, Eoin Morgan, Joe Root, Scotland, Tim Southee, Trent Boult, World Cup
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A Great Supporting Player: Misbah-ul-haq
Sport, unlike anything else we know, provides us with so many heroes and antiheroes. But there are also character actors—actors that never become the A-list, yet have served their roles with the same or generally a better level of equanimity … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, One-Day Cricket, Pakistan, T20 Cricket
Tagged Choke in Mohali, Glenn McGrath, Misbah-ul-haq, Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Steve Waugh, T20, World Cup
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Parth Taneja at Right Off the Bat Headquarters
We (Evander [left] and Martin [right]) were delighted to welcome Right Off the Bat’s Number One Fan, legal eagle Parth Taneja (center), to ROTB HQ in Brooklyn, NY. Parth traveled all the way from Washngton, DC, to share his enthusiasm for the Right … Continue reading
Posted in One-Day Cricket, Right Off the Bat Book
Tagged Hot Stove League, Kevin Moran, Parth Taneja
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The Cricket World Cup: A Preview, Part 3
We’ve already reviewed (in parts 1 and 2) the top eight teams in the competition. What makes the World Cup so fun (or monumentally boring and drawn-out, depending on your perspective) is the presence of, in the 2015 version, six second-tier … Continue reading
The Cricket World Cup: A Preview, Part 2
Hot on the heels of the The Cricket World Cup: A Preview, Part 1, here comes the second installment, featuring the four other top teams. South Africa It’s fair to say the biggest hurdle that South Africa has to overcome is … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, One-Day Cricket, Pakistan, South Africa, West Indies
Tagged Alastair Cook, Chris Gayle, Dale Steyn, Darren Sammy, David Miller, Dwayne Smith, Faf du Plessis, Graeme Smith, Hashim Amla, Ian Bell, Jacques Kallis, Joe Root, Mohammad Irfan, Mooen Ali, Morne Morkel, Shahid Afridi, Steven Finn, Stuart Broad, Vernon Philander, World Cup
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The Cricket World Cup: A Preview, Part 1
Every four years, the world’s top cricket teams gather to play a series of one-day internationals (ODIs)—the 50-over form of the game—to determine who is the best. It’s the nearest thing that cricket gets to a competition that the entire … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, India, New Zealand, One-Day Cricket, Sri Lanka
Tagged Angelo Mathews, Brendon McCullum, Corey Anderson, David Warner, Glenn Maxwell, Kane Williamson, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Michael Clarke, Mitchell Johnson, Rahul Dravid, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ross Taylor, Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Watson, Steven Smith, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Virat Kohli, Virender Sehwag, World Cup
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Let’s Talk about Kevin
One of the many consequences of England’s collapse to the Australians this winter has been the enforced retirement for playing for England of Kevin Pietersen, one of the most successful England batsmen ever. He’s only 33, has three, perhaps four, … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Cricket, England, IPL, One-Day Cricket, T20 Cricket, Test Cricket
Tagged Andrew Flintoff, Ian Botham, Kevin Pietersen, Mitchell Johnson, The Ashes
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Jonathan Trott
OK, cricket fans: We need to talk again about Jonathan Trott—and perhaps you baseball fans will have an equivalent player you can talk about who raises the same issues. Jonathan Trott plays cricket for England—both the longest form of the game … Continue reading
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