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Pakistan Sent Seven Players Home and Accidentally Found a Number Nine Who Hits Nine Sixes
Razaullah was going to spend his summer playing club cricket in Cleethorpes. Instead he took Joe Root with his fourth ball in Test cricket, came in at nine, and hit 81 off 63 with nine sixes. The board that found him is the same board that had to lose seven players first.
- The ICC Is Investigating One Over. The ICC Has a Sentence for That.A no-ball, a wide, fifteen runs in Chennai, a Canadian documentary, and the same statement the anti-corruption unit has issued about every over it has ever looked at.
- Cricket Australia Is Selling the Big Bash. The Renegades Are Going Out Whole.Forty-nine per cent of any team that wants to sell, and 100 per cent of the Melbourne Renegades, bids open now. The women's competition is in the deal and nobody mentioned it. Perth put its hand up, because Perth always puts its hand up, and I have some questions about what the Scorchers are called in Mumbai.
- England Sacked Kevin Pietersen for Twelve Years. Then They Ran Out of Reasons.In 2014 the ECB said the door was closed. In 2015 he made 355 not out and was told that same night it was still closed. On Monday the man they sacked from the Test job hired the man they sacked from everything. Pietersen called it a profound honour. Nobody at the ECB has explained what changed. What changed is they need runs.
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Cricket Australia Is Selling the Big Bash. The Renegades Are Going Out Whole.
Forty-nine per cent of any team that wants to sell, and 100 per cent of the Melbourne Renegades, bids open now. The women's competition is in the deal and nobody mentioned it. Perth put its hand up, because Perth always puts its hand up, and I have some questions about what the Scorchers are called in Mumbai.
England Sacked Kevin Pietersen for Twelve Years. Then They Ran Out of Reasons.
In 2014 the ECB said the door was closed. In 2015 he made 355 not out and was told that same night it was still closed. On Monday the man they sacked from the Test job hired the man they sacked from everything. Pietersen called it a profound honour. Nobody at the ECB has explained what changed. What changed is they need runs.
Australia Are Going Back to South Africa. Five of Them Were There Last Time.
The world champions haven't played a Test in ten and a half months. Australia have brought an attack with an average age of 36, a number three who has averaged 24 since his last hundred, and the same five blokes who were in the dressing room in 2018. Domestic dispute begins 9 October.
The ECB Opened the Door to Gambling Money for One Summer and Nobody Came In
Sold the tournament for £975m, lifted the ban on betting sponsors for 2026 only, waited. Eight shirts went out and not one of them had a bookmaker on it.
Sunil Narine Is 38, Bowls at Ninety, and Nobody Has Worked Him Out Yet
Four for 12 at Kensington Oval with his team on the brink. A title in America in July. Six hundred and fifty T20 wickets in August. He has been doing this since I was at school, and I was not a good student.
The ICC Is Investigating One Over. The ICC Has a Sentence for That.
A no-ball, a wide, fifteen runs in Chennai, a Canadian documentary, and the same statement the anti-corruption unit has issued about every over it has ever looked at.
