The Heavy Ball
Also: Bresnan's trauma, and why there was no reserve day for the Champions Trophy final
Michael Holding found himself in the grips of an existential crisis yesterday upon realising that he had in effect commentated on a T20 match, the rain-shortened Champions Trophy final. Notorious for dismissing the shortest format of the game as "rubbish" and for claiming not to have watched a single match during the 2010 T20 World Cup held in the Caribbean, the legendary fast bowler, widely admired for his integrity, was distraught.
What's with all the goodwill and brotherhood? It's enough to make an old-timer sick
Their crimes are hideous beyond belief
The week's news that you had been carefully avoiding
Putting an end to weeks of rumours, the BCCI called a press conference yesterday to admit that it is indeed in talks with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) over the possibility of the latter's adoption and eventual running of the IPL.
Hacks upset at not getting to cover anything sport-related
A handy form guide to who you should be putting your money on during the tournament
Getting a spinner for the Ashes is a national crisis, so a political leader steps up to do his duty
Subject: Proposed (Baggy) Green Paper on Getting this Pakistan bloke into the cricket side in time to stick it up the Pommies
To: All Members of Parliament apart from the sheilas obviously
It's the one where it doesn't rain all that much, but you get soaked anyway and the players hardly come out of the dressing room
Fans of the long format upset by the instant gratification of the newer mode of cheating
And why David Warner is so angry. Our agony aunt speculates
Am I the only one who hears "spot-fixing" and thinks of Shaun Tait doing the Lady Macbeth "Out damned spot!" routine?