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Maxine Blythin and the curious case of women’s cricket

November 5, 2019

Kent’s women’s team player of the year for 2019 is Maxine Blythin, a dashing 6ft tall stroke maker who notched four centuries at a Don Bradman-surpassing average of 124. Aged just 24, Blythin would a...

Can Chris Gayle inspire the Windies in his World Cup farewell?

May 21, 2019

The West Indies may well have won the first two cricket World Cups in 1975 and 1979, but they haven’t won it since and not even made a final since 1983. In cricket World Cup betting, you’ll find the ...

World T20 final preview and prediciton

April 1, 2016

And then there were two. England and West Indies will face off to decide who will be World T20 champions and, for the first time in the tournament’s history, there will be a two times champion. Kolka...

World T20 semi finals preview and prediction

March 29, 2016

The World T20 is fast rumbling towards its conclusion and the wheat has been sorted from the chaff. We predicted that England and India would advance to this stage, along with South Africa and Austra...

Virender Sehwag – the orgininal 21st Century master blaster

October 23, 2015

Every now and then a player comes along who breaks the mould and sets a new standard for others to follow. It is usually driven by one extreme or the other; a deep concern with statistics and conserv...

Defence a relic of a bygone era

August 27, 2015

The 2015 Ashes series has ended, throwing up a number of questions. Why are home sides dominating series? Why do modern batsmen have such little patience? Does new technology provide more of an advan...

IPL 2015 ones to watch, preview and predicition

April 8, 2015

From the big hitting of the World Cup, now to the big hitting of the Indian Premier League, which is back in 2015 for its eighth season. Where this once felt like a jumpy upstart of a competition, it...

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