The Alternate Cricket Roundup | 24-30 Nov, 2024

Cartoons, crosswords and all the weird stats that you won't find anywhere else!

Cartoon Corner: Shaw-ly he can only improve now?

Conceptualised & illustrated by Satish Acharya. Follow him on Twitter & Facebook.

You can check out the rest of his cartoons here.

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Crossword of the Week: The DAN LIEBKE Special!

The uber-talented comedic cricket writer and author

Dan Liebke

has written a special crossword for this week - and it’s absolutely baffling, annoying, and amazing!

Try out Dan’s crossword!

Answers can be found here. [Don’t click on the “ANSWERS” tab on the crossword page, it will take you nowhere.]

As always, the answers to the clues can be found in articles profiled in the newsletter from the past week. Catch up on the news from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday!

You can check out the the crossword archive here.

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Half-Assed Internet Research: All hail West Indies

Kaustubh Gudipati (@kaustats) has irrefutable proof that all Test nations suck, but West Indies suck the least;

Who paid the Sri Lankans to spare India’s blushes?

Do you think modern cricket sucks? Do you think modern cricket is the best? Well, here’s proof of something;

The only thing more obscure than this trend is the twitter ID of the person (bot?) who discovered it - @ss04072012. Is that the date they made the account, or the date they were born?!

Meanwhile, Will Macpherson (@willis_macp) has concrete evidence that England have finally completed Brexit. How else do you end up with this nonsense;

And they both have beans on toast for breakfast, and they both wear sweater vests in the summer, and they both drink tea with milk, BUT Ollie takes two spoons of sugar and Ollie only takes one-and-a-half spoons.

As the English get more narrow minded, the Indians become more experimental. Or, at least, that’s the most charitable way I can describe the BCCI celebrating a team’s choice to have 11 different bowlers try their hand in a bloody T20;

You understand that this means a wicketkeeper bowled an over too, right?

I have to mention one of the better takeaways from the IPL auction. Karthikeya (@karthikeyacric) asked a simple question - how much was each IPL team’s roster worth last season, if you retroactively plug in the 2025 auction prices?;

Would you rather have RCB’s broken management but good play, or DC’s great management and poor play? Or just, you know, KKR?

But, of course, we can’t end on anything actually informative. But, we can end with one of the funniest intro videos I’ve seen for any player to any team in any sport ever;

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