< 1 minute readFrom the comments on our latest Cricinfo article: “Ok, the sole joke of the article was silence, and quite frankly it needed at least a bit more to take it anywhere. Page 2 has definitely seen much better.” It’s a dark day. We’re going to have to redouble our efforts.
Continue readingMonth: April 2011
Let Guru Fletcher make your decisions for you
< 1 minute readDid you know that you can get a sense of what you should do in any given situation simply by gazing at inscrutable Guru Dunc standing motionless in his dark glasses and broad-brimmed hat? It’s true. Check this out. Should I have jerk chicken or takeaway pizza for tea tonight?
Continue readingSome horror involving Alec Stewart
< 1 minute readExplanation: “Discretionary wealth managers JM Finn & Co have appointed legendary former England wicket keeper Alec Stewart as their brand ambassador.” And another tiny piece of all of us dies.
Continue readingDuncan Fletcher, India coach
< 1 minute readSounds wrong, but we’re going to have to get used to it. Some believe that Fletcher got this job because of the brilliant work he did with England (and yes, overall it was brilliant), but we suspect it was more that India wanted somebody jowelly and unfriendly on their staff
Continue readingKing Cricket wields a staggering degree of influence
< 1 minute readWe’ve an announcement to make. Remember how we got unjustifiably worked up about the shape of the K in the middle of the new logo for The Cricketer? Well, we’ve just had word from their offices and it seems that they’ve been moved to carry out AN OFFICIAL REVIEW. That’s
Continue readingBilal Shafayat will be back
< 1 minute readMany of you will have read this week’s Spin in which Andy Bull describes Bilal Shafayat’s skittery descent to the Birmingham Leagues. Shafayat was one of our ones to watch in 2006 and 2007. Stories like Shafayat’s sometimes seem like tragedies, but that’s only really when the player in question
Continue readingJos Buttler – pros and cons
2 minute readIf you write for a proper newspaper, reporting on county cricket is largely about identifying the English player who did best on the day and then saying that he’s going to get a national call-up before too long. Yesterday, we read a comment from Jos Buttler’s coach at Somerset, Andy
Continue readingNottinghamshire are feisty
< 1 minute readSix wickets down in their second innings and Nottinghamshire still had fewer runs than Yorkshire. Steven Mullaney then made 83 and Chris Read 86. The latter was also the score which Yorkshire would then make for the loss of all ten wickets. Nottinghamshire won by 58 runs. We met Steven
Continue readingLasith Malinga’s knee injury
< 1 minute readLasith Malinga’s knee injury is just about bad enough that he can’t play Tests and just about good enough that he can play one-day internationals and the IPL. Sri Lanka feel that this financially lucrative degree of pain could be sorted with some rehabilitative work back home and has therefore
Continue readingWhat happened in Yorkshire?
< 1 minute readRich Pyrah, first-class bowling average of 48, goes for a run-a-ball against the champions but picks up a wicket every other over. This is one of those where the scorecard doesn’t really tell you the story. Having read some match reports, they don’t particularly tell us the story either, so
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