Buzzin Cricket

The thrills and spills of limited over cricket, so recently prominent in England’s victorious T20 World Cup winning campaign, were soon a long and distant memory as chancers gave way to thinkers in the first Test match between England and Bangladesh at Lords.
Having spent the T20 finals unable to leave the room for sustenance or [...]

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My Favourite Cricketer edited by John Stern
Hardback, Wisden, pp 186, £13.49
The concept of this book couldn’t be simpler – John Stern has collected 46 essays from the past five years of the Wisden Cricketer magazine’s My Favourite Cricketer page. Being a cricket supporter, you may already be familiar with the feature.
Chosen by journalists, broadcasters, [...]

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England T20 captain Paul Collingwood told BBC Radio 5 that his team went to the Caribbean to win the World Cup and achieved just that, adding “It’s a massive achievement. We’ve had a monkey on our backs having not won an ICC trophy and put that right.”
Collingwood, who’s England team crushed Australia by seven [...]

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Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack 2010
Pub: John Wisden, pp. 1728, £45
Who buys Wisden? That’s only a partially rhetorical question. I’m interested to know, because it would be too easy to answer; “Why, cricket enthusiasts, stupid.” Well, it’s not quite that obvious or simple. I have been, by any yardstick, a cricket enthusiast since the Ashes summer of [...]

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England batsman Kevin Pietersen hit an unbeaten 70 off 52 balls to lead his team to a well deserved win over Pakistan in their first  Super Eight match in the 2010 T20 World Cup. England won the game by five wickets with three balls to spare, having chased Pakistan’s total of 147 for 9.
While the [...]

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