Silly Mid On
Silly Mid On sits somewhere between courage and questionable life choices. It’s the fielder positioned just a few paces in front of the batter on the leg side — close enough to smell linseed oil and regret.
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Cow Corner
In cricketing cartography, cow corner is that wide, sun-baked patch of turf between deep midwicket and long-on — a region simultaneously despised by purists and adored by power-hitters.
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Jasprit Bumrah is Da Shit
You didn’t need to see the 1st game in the current ODI series between England and India to to agree with me, but it does add considerable weight to my argument. I would also like to not the singular language in this title. I’m not suggesting he’s one of the shits, but rather THE shit. You name me a better, more exciting and consistently wicket taking bowler across all formats and I will laugh in your face as if it were Richard Pryor performing some of his classic standup in a small New York club.
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Australia Subpar in the Subcontinent
After the 1st test of this 2 match series, there was hope that Australia had revitalised it’s approach and ability to battle subcontinent conditions, and the inevitably skilful teams that come along with them. That hope was clearly a little premature as Australia returned to form and crumbled like an overcooked meringue in the salivating mouth of an excellent Sri Lankan outfit. Rather than going through a play by play (it hurts too much anyway) let’s just cover a few things of interest.
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Baz is Not a Fan of Bazball, England Try Mottball
Well it seems that Bazball couldn’t save England from a trouncing in their recent T20 match against India. In all fairness they do have a different coach for the shorter formats in Matthew Mott. Oddly enough they were playing something they could be described as Mottball, although I’m not sure that tag is going to catch on.
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