Pakistan lead the one day series 1-0. A lot has been made of England’s outright rubbishness when it comes to one day cricket – I’m struggling to remember a game in the last 2 years where we looked like we could play. Heck, we were even congratulated ourselves when we “didn’t lose” (in the traditional sense of the word) the first match of the series, which was lost to bad weather. What’s with the all the mutual back scratching and political correctness, though?

In a seemingly slow cricket-news week (everything seems to be about the football World Cup… some bloke called Warren Clooney, broke a nail in his hand, or something), Six and Out has taken the chance to have a look at what some of the other cricket blogs are talking about.
King Cricket pays some respect to England A bowler Jon Lewis and his 4-for-not-a-lot against Sri Lanka, and wonder whether Lewis deserves a spot in the English test side. It seems unlikely, seeing as though Lewis was only drafted in to cover for Sajid Mahmood, widely tipped to make his test …read more