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08-Apr-2017

HOT

Two-handed scoops
Short balls outside off fired in at 135 kph used to be square-cut blissfully for four. By those who cared about their jawlines, of course. What's that thing Jos Buttler pulled off against Rising Pune Supergiant? A premeditated scoop while ambling around his seventh stump, and the ball went crashing into the advertisement hoardings. A scoop delicate and perfect in its execution to make any cook - except his former captain, of course - beam with pride.

NOT

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'Is it a sight screen or a side screen?'

Burning questions, walking on water, liquid breakfasts, and more selfies than you can shake a stick at

Alex Bowden

29-Apr-2016

Well obviously if you're Cabin Pietersen, the day starts with coffee.

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'It's not a hotel room if you can't hear the Backstreet Boys'

Rock your body right with our Twitter round-up

Alex Bowden

15-Apr-2016

It was far from the best week for James Taylor, but he's remained admirably upbeat.

He's even planning a music career.

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'Hard butter on aeroplanes and in restaurants piss me off!'

Aren't you just melting at the sight of our Twitter round-up?

Alex Bowden

18-Mar-2016

It's important to believe in your heroes.

It's impressive to see their composure and clarity of thought.

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'Just rubbed sweaty knees for 15 minutes with randoms'

Random acts of weirdness by not-so-random people in our Twitter round-up

Alex Bowden

05-Mar-2016

Who says cricketers don't have anything interesting to tweet?

And with that, let's commence our Twitter round-up.

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'Have a blessed day ahead, people'

Or you could just read our Twitter round-up

Alex Bowden

19-Feb-2016

Feeling calm?

A few double espressos should prove an excellent cure for calmness. Maybe this is why Virat's hundred celebrations always seem so wild-eyed.

You wouldn't think a professional batsman would have any problems getting his heart rate up when even practice sessions present some sort of bodily threat.

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'If you have to make noises like Chewbacca doing a massive poo...'

Then what? The suspense is killing us

Alex Bowden

05-Feb-2016

This column sees it as more of an obligation. And if Mohammad Yousaf hadn't made such a persuasive case for following him, we'd doubtless make fun of him too.

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'Jeez, there was a lot of bumpats last night'

Public posterior-touching, and plenty of dodgy headgear: all in our look at what's going down on Twitter

Alex Bowden

22-Jan-2016

Never mind the Baggy Green, it's the green bag that Australians truly covet.

That and the coloured floppy, at any rate. You can see why there's so much enthusiasm for it. It's a great look…

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'Keep spine in one piece'

New Year resolutions and hashtag lessons in our first Twitter round-up of the year

Alex Bowden

09-Jan-2016

How was Christmas for those who celebrate it?

It could have been worse.

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'I've just bought the greatest pizza cutter ever'

Wall-to-wall Neesham and much else besides in our look at what the players are tweeting

Alex Bowden

11-Dec-2015

It was, you know. You may have noticed, what with the commentators relentlessly going on about history being made the whole time. At times it seemed like everything about the match was historic.