WIN! A free bet and a copy of David Lloyd’s new book

The Cricket Blog has teamed up with Coral to offer you the chance to win a copy of David Lloyd’s new book, The Ashes According to Bumble and a free £10 bet on anything to do with the Ashes. David Lloyd"s new book and a free bet could be yours! Will you bet on England retaining the urn? Or A
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WIN! A free bet and a copy of David Lloyd’s new book

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Player Profile: Ajantha Mendis

Date of birth: March 11, 1985 Teams Represented: Sri Lanka, Kolkata Knight Riders, Sri Lanka Army, Wayamba Batting style: Right-hand bat Bowling style: Off break, Legbreak Mendis’ full name, Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis, is almost as long as his list of bowling
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Player Profile: Ajantha Mendis

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WIN! A copy of Sticky Wickets by The Duckworth Lewis Method

Like cricket? Like music? Not sure that the two combine that well? Well look no farther! As follow up to their critically acclaimed Ivor Novello nominated 2009 debut album, The Duckworth Lewis Method are back with Sticky Wickets and we’ve got copies up for grabs. Sticky Wickets, the new album f
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WIN! A copy of Sticky Wickets by The Duckworth Lewis Method

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Player Profile: Shaun Tait

Date of birth: Teams Represented: Australia, Durham, Rajasthan Royals, South Australia Batting style: Right-hand bat Bowling style: Right-arm fast Any bowler who fires it down at 100mph is a batsman’s worst nightmare and this is before their action is taken into c
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Player Profile: Shaun Tait

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WIN! A copy of The Promise of Endless Summer

The Cricket Blog has teamed up with Aurum publishing to offer three lucky readers the opportunity to win a copy of Martin Smith’s new book, The Promise of Endless Summer: Cricket Lives from The Daily Telegraph. The Promise of Endless Summer features obituaries of some of the game"s greats,
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WIN! A copy of The Promise of Endless Summer

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Player Profile: Keiron Pollard

Date of birth: May 12, 1987 Teams Represented: West Indies, Mumbai Indians, South Australia, Stanford Superstars, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago, West Indies U-19s Batting style: Right-hand bat Bowling style: Right-arm medium-fast Keiron Pollard is an exceptionally
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Player Profile: Keiron Pollard

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Captain Cook’s crowning glory – time to bow out

Alastair Cook said on the eve of this Ashes series that, should England regain the Ashes, it would be his biggest achievement as England captain. He wasn’t wrong. England’s sweeping aside of Australia has been staggering and Cook’s leadership has reached new heights. Alastair Cook has just had
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Captain Cook’s crowning glory – time to bow out

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ICC World T20 predictions – Round 2

After a reasonably straight forward first round of predicting, things are due to get a little tougher as some of the big boys go head to head in the second round. The run away leader of our pool, CricLover, has enjoyed a sterling start and the rest are already playing catch up! There are some
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ICC World T20 predictions – Round 2

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Player Profile: Mohammad Shahzad

Date of birth: July 15, 1991 Teams Represented: Afghanistan Batting style: Right-hand bat Bowling style: N/A Mohammad Shahzad may not feature on many people’s ‘players to watch’ list but the young Afghan deserves his place among ours. Afghanistan are cur
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Player Profile: Mohammad Shahzad

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IPL 2015 update

With 36 of the 56 group games gone, we thought we would have a quick look at how the 2015 Indian Premier League is panning out and try to have a guess at who the top four will be. With the table looking tight between fourth and last, however, this is almost impossible! Rajasthan Royals’ A
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IPL 2015 update

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2015 Cricket World Cup – who to support next

Retaining interest in a tournament can be a little tricky when your team has been dumped out. Especially when your team is England and that team has crashed and burned, seemingly in a deliberate manner. With one game left, there is something of a self-loathing, lurid desire to see Afghanistan
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2015 Cricket World Cup – who to support next

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Technology, broadcasting and cricket

The role of broadcasters in cricket has never been more pivotal. The debate surrounding them and their product offering has gone beyond audience engagement and now nags at the morality and the spirit of cricket. Television now sits at the heart of cricket, bringing previously unattainable
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Technology, broadcasting and cricket

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Sponsoring the English summer

Village greens, crisp clean whites, the sound of leather on willow, the gentle and continuous murmur of the crowd, long and lazy days spent basking in the glory of the English summer; the sense of Englishness. No sport matches cricket for its longevity and sense of social occasion. Despite the
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Sponsoring the English summer

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The Cricket Blog’s World T20 prediction pool

Just in time for the kick off in Hambantota of the 2012 ICC World T20, we’ve set up a prediction pool so that we can pit our wits/luck against one another! To get involved, simply visit http://www.superbru.com and login/register (depends if you’ve played similar games with us before) and sea
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The Cricket Blog’s World T20 prediction pool

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Player Profile: Daniel Vettori

Date of birth: January 27, 1979 Teams Represented: New Zealand, Delhi Daredevils, ICC World XI, Northern Districts, Nottinghamshire, Queensland, Warwickshire Batting style: Left-hand bat Bowling style: Slow left-arm orthodox It’s hard to comprehend that the youngest p
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Player Profile: Daniel Vettori

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The safety of cricket

A spate of horrendous injuries suffered on the field of play of late has called into question the adequacy of the safety of cricket. Philip Hughes’s tragic death, struck on the neck by a bouncer, has focussed more keenly the attention given to on field incidents. Crowds love to see big h
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The safety of cricket

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Bent arms and broad bats

The recent spate of bowlers who have been called for, and subsequently banned for, ‘chucking’ the ball in their action has brought to mind the fairness in the battle between bat and ball; the battle that defines this great sport. Sunil Narine’s action has led to him being banned. Does it reall
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Bent arms and broad bats

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Football holds the key to cricket’s UK audience

A survey by the ECB, England cricket’s governing body, at the end of 2014 revealed that participation in the sport at a recreational level is low. Kids are not playing the game. Elite participants in the sport in England are drawn, largely, from the private school sector and from abroad. The s
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Football holds the key to cricket’s UK audience

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The only surprise is the surprise – England’s 2015 Cricket World Cup

England cricket and its legion of followers are, by now, battle hardened when it comes to humiliation. That fact, however, has not made the past 12 months any easier. Oh to return to the halcyon days of the English summer of 2013, when the Australians were swatted aside with relative ease in a
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The only surprise is the surprise – England’s 2015 Cricket World Cup

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New Zealand in England 2015 series review

New Zealand arrived upon English shores with their reputation at arguably the highest point in their cricketing history. England were at one of the lowest points of theirs. The New Zealand in England series was played out in the best of spirits and with the best of cricket In what was
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New Zealand in England 2015 series review

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Mitchell Johnson was pure theatre

The announcement that Mitchell Johnson had retired from international cricket did not come as a huge surprise. There were rumours of this outcome after the recent Ashes series in England and, after the departures of Michael Clarke and Chris Rogers, it was seemingly inevitable that Johnson
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Mitchell Johnson was pure theatre

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Rogers redresses the balance

After focussing on the central role of Ben Stokes in the wake of England’s win in Cardiff and his superiority over Shane Watson, it is now time to focus on the crucial cog in the Australian machine that brought this Investec Ashes series back to 1-1 at Lord’s, Chris Rogers. Chris Rogers played
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Rogers redresses the balance

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