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  1. neville cardus

    **Official** England in Bangladesh 2016

    If you include the meltdown that cost them the ODI series, it's thrice.
  2. neville cardus

    **Official** England in Bangladesh 2016

    Not, admittedly, the first time I've asked that question this tour.
  3. neville cardus

    **Official** England in Bangladesh 2016

    What on earth are they doing?
  4. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    It's a shame, really, because she caters to stereotypes that the likes of Allison Mitchell and Ebony Rainford-Brent have done great work in overturning. South Africa's Natalie Germanos knows her stuff, too. I think Moonda's writing is informed more by her politics than by her love or...
  5. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    On reflection, that's unfair. But when she does try, she tries too hard. That Bugs Bunny thing just curls the toes.
  6. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Yeah, I read so much of her stuff, and encountered so many of these errors, that by the end I was almost consciously seeking them out. It's not that she's a bad writer (although she is); it's that she doesn't even try.
  7. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    I see what you did there.
  8. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Actually, she's pretty weird on the whole question of quotas. Listen to this toe-curling interview she did with "Can't Bowl, Can't Throw" in 2015: A 'Person of Colour' Explains Why Racial Quotas are Necessary in South African Cricket - Dennis Does Cricket I happened to read a lot of her stuff...
  9. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Dunno. Can't find it myself. Will have another look tomorrow. I was complaining about her reticence on the question of quotas and last year's World Cup semi-final. I felt that, as a reporter, she had no business being reticent.
  10. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Pity. That would have been funny.
  11. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    I remember that my first-ever bat was christened "Brian Lara Croft," after my favourite cricketer and my favourite computer game. Maybe I'll revive that.
  12. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    You're aware, then, of my wee Twitter spat with her? ;-)
  13. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Nah. His politics are too far to my right.
  14. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    Thanks.
  15. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    He's right about my handle, though. It's always felt slightly ridiculous. How does one change these things?
  16. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    In other news, I tried this morning to write the opening two sentences of my own long-mooted cricket book. But they came out like this, so I stopped: Good grief.
  17. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    'Pologies for the duplicate posting. The first one didn't show up initially, and the second one refuses deletion. A task for our anxious moderator?
  18. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    You don't exactly put the "moderate" in "moderator," do you? I've marked this phenomenon before: that those who delight in policing the utterances of others are never quite so stringent about their own. "Abjectly," forsooth! I've made the case, alright. You just haven't spotted it. But it's...
  19. neville cardus

    West Indies vs Pakistan in UAE 2016

    That headline totally overstates the article's content.
  20. neville cardus

    Five things I don't get about cricket

    You don't exactly put the "moderate" in "moderator," do you? I've marked this phenomenon before: that those who delight in policing the utterances of others are never quite so diligent about their own. "Abjectly," forsooth! I've made the case, alright. You just haven't spotted it. But it's...

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