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Stepping Away in the Nets The problem I have is that, when I play in the nets, I keep stepping towards the leg side and exposing most of my stumps, even to straight balls. They are new nets and may just need getting used to because, interestingly, I play the line with the majority of shots in...

Murali Injured; Misses Rest of World T20 Injured Murali out of World Twenty20 | Cricket News | ICC World Twenty20 2010 | Cricinfo.com -- With Sri Lanka playing Zimbabwe today, they'll definitely miss the legendary spinner. Zimbabwe's last T20 match saw them go 2-0 against Australia so Sri...

West Indies vs Ireland - Game 2 West Indies: CH Gayle*, SJ Benn, DJ Bravo, S Chanderpaul, N Deonarine, ADS Fletcher, WW Hinds, NO Miller, KA Pollard, D Ramdin†, R Rampaul, KAJ Roach, DJG Sammy, RR Sarwan, JE Taylor Ireland: WTS Porterfield*, AC Botha, P Connell, AR Cusack, G Dockrell, DT...

The Cracking Spell and Bloody Hell Thread This name is going to take some explaining. Basically, if you watch or hear about a "cracking spell" (a notable bowling performance) or an innings to which one might utter the words "bloody hell", post it here with some stats, a summary and some...

2010 British General Election Who are you going to vote for? Did you watch the Leaders' Debate? What are the key talking points for this year's General Election? What is your view? This doesn't effect the majority of the members on here but I'd be interested to hear your say too...

Fantasy County Cricket? Does anyone know where I could find a decent fantasy competition for the upcoming English County Cricket season? The Daily Telegraph usually have one but, seeing as the season starts this coming Friday and they haven't produced one thus far, I don't think they are...

Big Cricket Twitter Page? This has worked in gaining active members for other forums. I suggest we make a Twitter page and send out tweets as the Big Cricket forum. They can be about anything to do with anything, and the more followers we get, the more active Big Cricket could become. I'd be...

The Afghanistan War What are your views on the war in Afghanistan? Should Britain be there? Should Australia be there? Why are Britain and Australia there? What is the point in the war? I'd love to hear everyone else's opinion. I'll post mine when I get a few replies.

Playing the Line and Footwork I have had three winter nets training sessions with my U15 team since the turn of the year and each time I have batted and bowled. Seeing as I am an opener for our team, I tend to focus more on the batting and I am here today to talk about my batting. I have the...

Shahid Afridi banned for two T20s for ball-tampering Shahid Afridi banned for two T20s for ball-tampering | Cricket News | Australia v Pakistan 2009/10 | Cricinfo.com -- Well, the moron is at it again. He has been done for ball/pitch tampering before (I remember Pietersen got quite pissed...

Big Cricket Twenty20I Tournament (Squads, Fixtures, Results + Discussion) Squads Australia (Reggie Duff) Justin Langer Mathew Hayden Ricky Ponting Damien Martyn Andrew Symonds Michael Clarke Adam Gilchrist Shane Warne Michael Kasprowicz Brett Lee Glenn McGrath England...

Anyone fancy a quick fantasy cricket tourney? Does anyone fancy a quick cricket tournament? Five teams to play in it, winner wins pride :D I'll use Mousebreaker Cricket Manager (Twenty20 cricket with 2006/7 teams) and we can have ten rounds, playing each team twice (therefore I can play...

Reliance Mobile ICC Test and ODI Team Rankings I'll keep updating this each week. Can someone sticky this for easy access? Reliance Mobile ICC Test Team Rankings TEAM - MATCHES - POINTS - RATING India - 32 - 3957 - 124 South Africa - 35 - 4197 - 120 Australia - 39 - 4586 - 118 Sri...

Warming Down I start the winter nets with the club next Saturday. For the past 2/3 seasons, at the start of the winter nets period, I have done some bowling, woken up the next day and felt my shoulders ache. Is there anything I can do to prevent this? It generally stops after 2 weeks of...

The Graeme Smith Incident The Graeme Smith incident has lead to everyone being in the wrong for one reason or another. The first time I saw it live, I jumped out of my seat and celebrated the first wicket. I was very surprised to see Graeme Smith looking so unimpressed at such a big appeal and...

Hello Hello everyone. I'm Lewis, 15, from Surrey, England. I play cricket for my school, the Howard of Effingham, (during the summer!) and my local club, Effingham CC. I am a right-handed opener who averages around 15 (I only play Twenty20 at this age :P). I have played one 45 over adult...