Jamie Dalrymple’s favourite band is Oasis

So they lost to England in the first two ODIs

This particular Worcestershire supporter has had it up to here

 

Who names these Twenty20 teams anyway?

With the Test in West Indies getting interrupted by rain, Andrew Hughes switches to domestic Twenty20 action in England, a world with its own set of rules, no floodlights and faraway music

Why does Jimmy Anderson groan like a pensioner and sledge like a librarian?

And the astounding escapology act by Defeat

It’s pretty out in Dominica, but on the ground it’s all a shambles

He may not be English but by being self-conscious and insecure, he puts his adopted countrymen at ease

Advertisers, cricket boards and commentators would do well to be advised that cricket watchers are not creatures with the attention spans of goldfish hooked on caffeine

Why we love the Bish and why Antigua has returned to its batsman-hating days of old

When you have been to the very gates of sanity and gazed at what lies beyond, there’s only one thing that can help soothe your frayed nerves again

Can’t figure out how to calculate net run rates for the life of you

There were slogs that connected, sixes that flew and dives that actually saved runs

We’ll have none of that whingeing, you hear Mr Collingwood?

The World Twenty20 begins with some odd cricket

  The post-IPL landscape is strewn with bleary-eyed and confused souls, people such as you and me, fellow cricket tragics, who must somehow soldier on in a world where intervals of time are not sponsored and big beige balloons go

The financial controversy in the IPL has meant viewers are denied their daily dose of the Modi and instead get to see more of the blimp

The Super Kings-Punjab game had many and varied delights, not least the return of the Butcher of Jharkhand