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March 2008

Belter of a wicket at Chennai did Test Cricket no favours

Paul Moon / 31 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Pablo Luna - Moonlighting for Betfair. Pablo praises Virender Sehwag's superb innings but wonders whether cricket fans are happy just to watch the batsmen pile on the runs...Read more »

Lessons learned: Stuart Broad is the real deal, Panesar back to his best

Andrew Hughes / 31 March 2008 / 1 Comments

Andrew Hughes looks back at England's tour of New Zealand and tells us what we've learnt from it: Sidebottom is crucial, Ambrose exciting and Stuart Broad an essential part of the jigsaw...Read more »

"I still have the same motivation and desire to play for Somerset as I did for England" says Marcus Trescothick

Paul Moon / 26 March 2008 / 5 Comments

Pablo Luna - Moonlighting for Betfair. Pablo got in touch with his old pal Marcus Trescothick to ask him about the truth behind his international retirement and what the future holds for him...Read more »

Test cricket betting: Jacques will need to ply his trade

Andrew Hughes / 25 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Andrew Hughes tells us why India will provide the sternest of tests for Graeme Smith's men and why all may not be well in India's camp...Read more »

Third Test Update: Arise Sir Ryan, swing master

Andrew Hughes / 23 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Andrew Hughes on the action from the deciding Test...Read more »

Have Hoggard and Harmison played their last Test?

Andrew Hughes / 20 March 2008 / 1 Comments

Andrew Hughes looks at bowlers who have returned to Test cricket after being dropped and considers the chances of the same happening to Steve Harmison and Matthew Hoggard...Read more »

County cricket is a joke and Nasser Hussain should be made MD of the ECB

Paul Moon / 19 March 2008 / 2 Comments

Pablo Luna - Moonlighting for Betfair. Pablo attempts to dissect the problems at the heart of English cricket and calls for wholesale changes in the management...Read more »

Chris Gayle, Afridi, Warne, Akhtar and Yuvraj Singh are five to watch in the IPL

Andrew Hughes / 18 March 2008 / 3 Comments

Andrew Hughes handpicks five world superstars to watch out for when the much-awaited Indian Premier League launches in a few weeks time and picks the best bets on offer...Read more »

Warne absence hinders Hampshire but Northamptonshire are a bet in Division Two

Ed Hawkins / 17 March 2008 / 1 Comments

The Hawkeye View - Ed Hawkins takes an early look at the betting for the County Championship and tells us why Lancashire and Hampshire are far from being decent bets...Read more »

Don't bet on Stephen Fleming bowing out in a blaze of glory

Ed Hawkins / 17 March 2008 / 2 Comments

The Hawkeye View - Ed Hawkins looks at the stats surrounding batsmen's final Test to tell us why he's not expecting Fleming to fill his boots in the Third Test at Napier...Read more »

Anderson and Ambrose have given England every chance of levelling the Series

Andrew Hughes / 14 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Andrew Hughes updates us on the action and the latest on the betting after day two of the 2nd Test between England and New Zealand at the Basin Reserve in Wellington...Read more »

Boucher is "decent" but no more than that

Paul Moon / 11 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Paul Moon tells us why anyone comparing the South African wikkie with the likes of Adam Gilchrist needs to seek medical help......Read more »

New Zealand v England: "We weren't good enough" is not an acceptable explanation

Ed Hawkins / 10 March 2008 / 1 Comments

Excuses, excuses, excuses as the outlook for the rest of the series looks more than bleak for England, says Ed Hawkins...Read more »

Is England's current bowling line-up their worst ever?

Andrew Hughes / 10 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Andrew Hughes looks back with fondness at the 2005 Ashes bowling-line up of Flintoff, Harmison, Jones, Hoggard and Giles and compares it to the current crop of bowlers that surendered at Hamilton this week...Read more »

1.07 draw backers denied as England crumble

Joe Dyer / 09 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Batting collapse sees England fall to first Test defeat...Read more »

Eng v NZ 1st Test: Day two update from Hamilton

Andrew Hughes / 06 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Andrew Hughes has been watching Steve Harmison's lacklustre performance in the first innings of this test match, and wonders whether the English press have underestimated this New Zealand side....Read more »

Will the birth of the Indian Premier League signal the death of international cricket?

Paul Moon / 05 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Pablo Luna - Moonlighting for Betfair. Pablo considers whether the riches of the Indian Premier League allied with the Kolpak ruling may rob International Cricket of it's star performers...Read more »

New Zealand v England: Vaughan keen to make amends for last time's heartbreak

Ed Hawkins / 03 March 2008 / Leave a comment

The Hawkeye View - Ed Hawkins tells us why cricket statistics need to be interpreted in the context in which they happened and uses the tragic death of Ben Hollioake as an ilustration of this...Read more »

Have Dravid and Ganguly played their last ODI?

Andrew Hughes / 03 March 2008 / Leave a comment

Leather on willow fanatic Andrew Hughes wonders whether India's recent limited-overs successes mean we'll never see Dravid and Ganguly turn out for India in the shorter versions of the game again...Read more »