Forget the match, the extremely sunburnt
fans at cricket's HQ were treated to an enthralling and thrilling ton - and there
was not a hefty lump of willow or a calculated swish of a sponsor's logo
involved.

Everyone remembers the nonchalant tuck
into the leg side from Nick Knight as he treated a 100.2mph delivery from
Shoaib Akhtar with contempt, and this time it was Craig 'ladies love it'
Kieswetter who was equally unflustered.

Belying the conventional theory of
'easing into a spell', Shaun 'I did my warm up when I was 16' Tait sent down a delivery at 100.1mph in his first over
which

If there is one thing Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke love more than
telling reporters to "look, mate", it is gambling on the horses. Aside from that, a penchant for compiling big scores is also right up there.

Both Pup and Punter racked up 90s, with the skipper scoring his runs at what
Sir Vivian Richards would have termed 'a fair old lick', while even his vice had
a respectable strike rate to go with his efforts as Australia beat England by 78 runs.

Given 'Pup's' tepid scoring so far in the series, the cynical observers
(Cowers included) pondered whether Andrew Strauss's inept grounding of

On a day when England's football team were widely derided and Mueller-ed in South Africa, the nation's cricketers were busy notching up a series victory over their old rivals Australia at Old Trafford.

England now have the bragging rights over Ricky Ponting's side in all three formats of the game having won the Ashes, the World Twenty20 and the one-day series.

What is more, if Andrew Strauss's side win at either The Oval or Lord's they will rise to second in the ODI world rankings - why is everyone not out on the streets drinking Doug Bollinger and impersonating Ponting's reckless dance down

So we've got the Twenty20, Pro40, 50-over, four-day county and five-day Test matches.

You'd think that this lot would cover the needs of the cricket world, but no: the Bangladesh Cricket Board is now set to introduce 90-over matches.

The Dhaka Premier League, traditionally a 50-over contest, will be expanded to allow the country's cricketers a chance to gain Test-like experience, apparently.

"The new version will help players to develop their skill to stay for a longer time on the crease," said BCB official Ghulam Mohammed Alomgir. "It will be a two-day affair instead of one day."

What next?

So England complete their home and away series with a comprehensive 4-0 aggregate victory over Bangladesh - the very fact that this outcome was a huge odds-on shot is a pretty damning indictment of where Bangladeshi cricket is.

The previous matches saw 181-run, nine and eight wicket victories for England - comprehensive enough outcomes - but today's innings and 80 runs success was a rout.

To lose 20 wickets in less than 65 overs is not even close to being acceptable and makes something of a mockery of the tag 'Test' cricket.

Some brain dead batting from the tourists does nothing to help

Cow Corner is
pleased to hear that Sir Allen Stanford is set to pull his money out of the
'Super Series' despite there being four further fixtures planned with the ECB.

In news that will break
the heart of Matt Prior's lovely blonde wife Emily, the billionaire Texan
is set to make use of a get-out clause to abandon the next four annual 'Twenty20
for 20' circuses.

Intense criticism from
these shores and apparent reluctance from the England players to be there at all made
the match a farce only slightly further demeaned when the 58-year-old turned up
in a chopper with a box full of moolah.

Is

21:30 - WI 114-8 (65.5 overs) - Panesar beats Edwards' outside edge with his first two balls but there is no way through. WEST INDIES WIN THE SERIES 1-0 AND THE PLACE HAS GONE NUTS!!! The inquest will begin for England who lose the Wisden Trophy after being dismissed for just 51 in Jamaica. They came so close in the third and fifth Tests only to deny themselves a better chance due to late declarations. Join us on Sunday evening for the Twenty20 International.

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21:27 - WI 114-8 (65 overs) - Ramdin is looking for the
single to keep strike but sweeps for four so

It was an historic day at Lord's, and not because beanpole paceman Steven Finn ended with nine wickets in the match.

England's 21-year-old seamer got his name on the Lord's honours board alongside the great names of Ed Giddins, Ashley 'King of Spain' Giles and Philip 'Daffy' De Freitas, but all the talk centred around the lunch interval.

You are probably thinking the holder of four fried egg-eating world records Timmy Bresnan must have been up to his old tricks again, but it was the MCC's decision to allow the spectators to 'perambulate' (Lord's Dictionary, 1912) on the outfield which grabbed