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People won’t watch Test cricket unless there are day-night matches
Time zones, Lalit. Time zones.
At least half the matches your team plays aren’t in your country. If it’s all about broadcasting rights then one nation’s day-night match is the opposition’s daytime match.
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We appreciate England’s desire to identify the next England captain in advance, but why has Alastair Cook been chosen? Warning: this article may contain some petty, bigoted views about certain strands of British society Leadership attributes There is no standout candidate to be the next England captain, yet England have clearly plumped for Alastair Cook. Why? Presumably he is ‘made of the Read More
We really hope that England weren’t tampering with the ball last week, because if they were, they’re rubbish at it. Our stance on ball tampering is that players should do whatever they can get away with. To us, that’s the divide: if you’re caught, you’ve crossed the line. There’s a similar situation in rugby, where someone like Richie McCaw regularly acquires the ball from within a melee of Read More
When the best players are given a chance, they take it. For example, Mike Hussey didn’t need to be given a fifth chance when compiling 134 not out in Australia’s stunning win against Pakistan. Read More
For once, this isn’t about that period when Jacques Kallis lost sight of his genitals for a few months. It’s about him hitting a hundred. Once upon a time, hitting a hundred was an achievement. Nowadays you hit 170 and the man of the match award goes to someone who hit 230. Jacques has never hit a double hundred and we like him because of this. Read More
If you’ve just arrived at work and you were planning on listening to the cricket, you could do a lot worse than listen to Test Match Sofa.
It’s not too difficult to explain what it is. Imagine Test Match Special broadcast from someone’s house and with absolutely no pretence of impartiality.
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Kevin Pietersen doesn’t have a weakness against left-arm spin. Not directly anyway. Kevin Pietersen’s weakness is that sometimes he thinks he could travel to the moon without a vehicle or oxygen. All players have a confidence range. Sometimes they’re up, sometimes they’re down, but the extremes aren’t the same for all players. Read More
Graeme Swann saved England with five wickets and in an earlier pre-referral era, he might have had seven. Not bad for an off-spinner in the first innings of a match. Not bad for an off-spinner in any innings, many say. Maybe Warne and Murali are to blame, but everyone thinks you need mystery these days. You don’t. It helps, but it’s not like a spin bowler can’t take wickets with turn and a bit Read More
Probably not. We don’t see Luke Wright getting a great many more runs than Ryan Sidebottom and we don’t see him taking many more wickets than Ian Bell. Read More
My day began as most of my days have begun recently: 1.Girlfriend’s alarm goes off at 6.15am, she gets up, goes in shower, I go back to sleep. 2.Girlfriend leaves for work approximately 7.15am, wakes me up to say goodbye, I go back to sleep. Read More
