The Briefing

Look ma, it's the Super Eight!

Two intrepid correspondents team up to run the rule over the teams that sailed and scraped through the group stage of the World Cup

18-Jun-2024•Andrew Fidel Fernando and Alan Gardner

Here, take these year-end awards and be done with it

Men behaving badly, men behaving too nicely to be true. And Harmanpreet. In our prize-giving look back at the year that was

01-Jan-2024•Andrew Fidel Fernando and Alan Gardner

Toppers, duffers, can-do-betters - the World Cup report cards are out

Australia are annoying teacher's pets again, India get gold stars for effort, England look for a place to hide their report cards

21-Nov-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

A fair and insightful review of the only tournament in cricket that matters - the Asia Cup

Featuring a look ahead to forthcoming editions of the competition where the rules are made up and the points don't matter

19-Sep-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Is whiskey or rum the true spirit of cricket? Discuss

Beer is currently off the table. These and other important points, including Bairstow's narcolepsy and Carey's war crimes, are up for debate

04-Jul-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

ECB and Cricket Australia write heartbreaking letter to BCCI

And India and Pakistan make everyone else uncomfortable with their Asia Cup saga

02-Jun-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Do you even ronsbu, bro?

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

03-Feb-2023•Andrew Fidel Fernando

It must have Bean love, but it's war now

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

03-Nov-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Everything you need to know about manufacturing crazy cricket arguments on Twitter

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

28-Sep-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Is IPL money taking over world cricket? You can bet on it

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

05-Sep-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Everyone was so worried about the death of Test cricket, they forgot about ODIs

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

04-Aug-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

The McCullum takeover is Baz news for cricket the world over

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

06-Jul-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Who said India have better top-order options than Kohli? Not us

We'd certainly not do anything so unjustified and ridiculous

01-Jun-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Don't look up: the James Faulkner story

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

02-Mar-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Players don't need privacy. They need to say more stupid things on stump mics

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

02-Feb-2022•Andrew Fidel Fernando

The only T20 World Cup preview you need to read

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

23-Oct-2021•Andrew Fidel Fernando

It's time to admit that England vs India is just practice for the Ashes

Our correspondent focuses on the cricket that actually matters

02-Sep-2021•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Hey India, let your spare batters play for Sri Lanka, please?

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

02-Aug-2021•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Move over WTC, the World Bad Behaviour Championship has a winner

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

01-Jul-2021•Andrew Fidel Fernando

Australia, no one cares about your ball-tampering anymore

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

03-Jun-2021•Andrew Fidel Fernando

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