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Cover Points
This blog attempts to function as a confluence of thoughts from the blogosphere on any matters pertaining to international cricket.
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The way the English and the Australians have been treating the forthcoming Ashes for more than a year now, any of those "new eyeballs" (that the IPL and/or the World T20 might have managed to capture) that fall upon the build up can't be...
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As the ECB's marketing team ensures that The Ashes will scatter all over the cricket landscape in the next few weeks a familiar pre-Ashesquestion also makes in customary (at least from the evidence of the last 4 campaigns) rounds: Will Steven Harmison...
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First there was the captain, then came the manager, then the "coach". Each with an increasingly lower shelf-life, maybe not individually but as a breed. Now walks in Andy Flower. The great lefty opener that he was, he opens once again for this...
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As England wrap up a final Test win against South Africa, with that cynical little man back in action , Sri Lanka win the series against India . Straight Point breaks out a statistics analysis against sleepy Fab Four supporters to argue that the Fab Four...
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Graeme Smith extraordinary century gives South Africa their first series win in England since their re-entry into the international game : Smith made an unbeaten 154 as South Africa won by five wickets to take a winning 2-0 lead in the four-Test series...
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Clearly New Zealand were robbed of a victory against England in the recent ODI: The New Zealanders were desperate to complete the 20th over, which would have allowed them to win under the Duckworth/Lewis regulations if they had scored seven further runs...
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Homer covers the possibility of an Twenty20 champions league . As does Miriam , both with not much enthusiasm. The main issue being how to reconcile which team a player should play for if two or more of their teams make it to the league. And of course...
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Homer links to posts by Ducking Beamers on identities in the IPL . Beamers starts with: Recently, I’ve found it difficult to make even the most basic points to my friends — the importance of empirical evidence in rational debate, for instance — but I...
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Why isn't Mark Ramprakash playing for England ? Mark reckons it's all down to...what exactly? Is it social class or race or just being anti-establishment? Why am I pointing all this out now? Well, there's much talk at the moment as to why...
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