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By SB Tang Note: this piece appeared on The Guardian Sport Network on 21 July 2015. Everybody loves Joe Root right now. And who wouldn’t? Since being dropped for the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney in January 2014, Root has plundered 1530 runs — including five hundreds, four of which were of the monster, unbeaten […]
February 10, 2013
By SB Tang In Australia, one form of international cricket is dying. “One-dayers” we call them, in the land down under where they were born. In the rest of the cricketing world, they have come to be known as “Oh-Dee-Ayes”. I’ll refer to them as “one-dayers” in the Australian context, “ODIs” in the context of […]
September 18, 2012
By SB Tang Ravi Bopara ended the international summer with a cumulative total of 50 runs in seven international innings against South Africa. By the time he was dismissed for the final time this international summer for 6 in England’s opening T20 match against South Africa at Chester-le-Street, even Dale Steyn, the bowler who took […]
September 12, 2012
By SB Tang Going into the second Test against South Africa at Headingley, England were already 1-0 down in a three Test series that they had to, at minimum, draw in order to retain their world number one Test ranking. By the afternoon of the third day at Headingley, England had slumped to 4 for […]
August 28, 2012
By SB Tang In Friday Night Lights — the greatest television show most Britons have never seen — Coach Eric Taylor tells Matt Saracen, the under-sized, moderately talented high school sophomore quarterback on whose mediocre arm rests the hopes (and abundant fears) of a mildly deranged west Texan town where high school football is a […]
July 29, 2012
By SB Tang It’s after lunch on the third day of the 2010 Ashes Boxing Day Test. Australia’s opening pair of Shane Watson and Phil Hughes are cruising along at 5.4 an over in Australia’s second innings. The ever unpredictable Melbourne sun has come out for the first time during an Australian innings in the […]
July 19, 2012
By SB Tang In a classic scene from The Simpsons, Milhouse Van Houten, Bart Simpson’s perennially tread upon doormat of a best friend cries, after one patronising comment too many from Bart: “I demand respect!” Tim Bresnan is an accomplished professional cricketer, but he could be forgiven for sharing that sentiment when comparisons are continually […]
June 8, 2012
By SB Tang On Thursday 31 May 2012, Kevin Pietersen retired from international limited-overs cricket, just four months before England defend the World T20 crown which Pietersen, more than any other individual player, helped them to win in 2010. It appears that Pietersen wanted to retire from one-day internationals (“ODIs”) and play on in T20 […]
April 19, 2012
By SB Tang September 24th, 2007. Pakistan face India in the final of the inaugural World Twenty20 tournament at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. India set Pakistan a target of 158 for victory. In the eighth over of Pakistan’s innings, Younis Khan, one of Pakistan’s most dependable batsmen with a Test average in excess of 48, […]
November 20, 2011
By SB Tang On 13 August 2011, England ascended to the number 1 position in the ICC’s World Test Rankings System for the first time in the current system’s eight year history by defeating the preceding incumbent India in the Third Test at Edgbaston to ensure a margin of victory of at least two Tests […]
A Straight Bat 
July 22, 2015
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