The Briefing

Get all the hip new cricket nomenclature and much more in this column

Our correspondent tracks down the fraudulent comic who changed Pakistan-Zimbabwe contests forever

Aka everything you wished people would stop saying about the Deepti Sharma-Charlie Dean run out

And how did the BCB punish Shakib for his latest indiscretion?

Won't someone spare a thought for the poor, boring middle child of the game?

Everyone wants a hit of Bazball and the nice-guy stakes have never been higher

We'd certainly not do anything so unjustified and ridiculous

Our correspondent finds that the hottest face-offs in cricket now are currently happening off the field

Our correspondent looks at all the hot topics in cricket, including the Nigerian princes writing emails to Brendan Taylor

Here's the real truth about every team's chances of winning

Our correspondent focuses on the cricket that actually matters

Our correspondent tears himself away from Hundred Twitter to make a request to the BCCI

The WTC mace may have gone to the deserving victors, but only one man was really competing for the other crown

Our correspondent is fed up. And Steve Smith's boring YouTube channel isn't making him feel any better

But what can he do when the damn IPL keeps getting in the way?

And Sri Lanka Cricket doesn't even try to make our correspondent work for his jokes

Australia's captain really could use some help with his sledging game

And the LPL shows The Hundred how it's done

Also, will someone spare a thought for poor Geoffrey Boycott?

And what do you think of Prithvi Shaw becoming a Shastri lookalike?