Sunday, September 30, 2007

Darrell Hair lives the dream

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Let’s face it. We all want to sue the IC-bloody-C. For instance, yesterday, I bought a packet of biscuits. However, to my horror, I found th...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

Fun is banned

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The new ECB head, Giles Clarke, has decided to outlaw all fun within the England cricket team. In a surprising first move, he has acted to a...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Somerset wins, or so it seems!

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Hurrah! In possibly the best news since VJ day, the best county in the land secured victory in the Second Division of the county championshi...
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Sussex wins, or so it seems

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In a championship with so many up-and-downs that most fans felt a little ill by the end of it, Sussex clinched county glory despite Lancashi...

India wins, or so it seems

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No one really cares. Not even a billion Indians. However, the match twisted and turned. Or so I read. I didn’t really watch it. In protest o...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

Guest blog: This article contains disturbing imagery.

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Here's a special blog, from Our Man in Durham: Being an arm chair cricket fan, having an appreciation for wit and awful at making puns, ...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Twenty20: The randomness reigns

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In an unexpected turn-around, India beat South Africa by enough runs to knock them out of the whole bloody tournament. Despite losing their ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

England beaten by stick cricketers

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Well, the final indignity is metered out to English fans everywhere, and, in one small mercy, England are knocked out of the twenty20 World ...

Bored of watching England lose?

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Feel the weight of the world on your shoulders? Depressed by the constant failure of those around you? Ginger? Un-wind, relax and go to a st...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

England prove that gambling is wrong

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Well, there goes my hard-earned £10. Thanks very much England cricket team. Once again, England threw away a strong position, and contrived ...
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Monday, September 17, 2007

Victory slips through England’s hands

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England should have beaten South Africa. In stead, they opted for defeat. They managed this intriguing tactic by a number of means: dropping...
Sunday, September 16, 2007

Bang-Lee-dead

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Australia are proving to be very good at twenty20, as well as ugly. Bangladesh were battered by 9 wickets, with Australia reaching their tar...
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Saturday, September 15, 2007

Pakistan fail to hit a barn door

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Of course, by “barn door” I mean the wickets. They couldn’t hit the wickets. Not even when they were trying to. India earned the Ayalac seal...
Friday, September 14, 2007

England tossed up and eaten in salad

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If Zimbabwe are better than Australia and England are better than Zimbabwe, then… Australia are better than England. That’s how crazy twenty...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

Let’s try not to gloat

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Many petty minded people would gloat because Australia lost to Zimbabwe, which is an intrinsically hilarious event. I am above such things. ...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Gayle gets runs with a bat

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Although there has been a lot of truthful raging against the rubbishness of twenty20, I somehow found myself of being enthralled by one of t...
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Monday, September 10, 2007

20/1 against

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The twenty-bloody-20 starts tomorrow. We in Ayalac try not to care. We are, however, obsessed with cricket. It is a difficult battle. So, in...
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Sunday, September 09, 2007

England seal the deal with a kiss.

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By “kiss” I mean a convincing victory, not that, you perv. In perhaps the most boring match of the series so far, England’s fiery bowlers sk...
Friday, September 07, 2007

Shoaib Akhtar throws a wobbly.

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Yesterday, Shoaib Akhtar apparently attacked fellow fast bowler Mohammed Asif with a cricket bat. The Pakistan Cricket Board swiftly acted t...
Thursday, September 06, 2007

India tie the series

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In possibly the best match of the series so far, India dramatically clinched the NatWest series in a last-over thriller . Thanks mainly to t...