2 minute readAbout a year ago, we started getting milk delivered – you know, like how people used to back in the Eighties. No longer do we have to carry weighty flagons of milk in amongst the rest of the big shop; now it just materialises on our doorstep, as if by
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England’s dodgy drivers dobbled by deadly Dasun
< 1 minute readThe received wisdom is that you don’t get wickets in Test cricket with dibbly-dobbly medium-pace. This is actually entirely accurate – but only because nobody picks dibbly-dobbly medium-pacers for Tests. The truth is that dibbly-dobbly is tough for Test batsmen. Their net bowlers are 85mph, their bowling machines are 85mph.
Continue readingSamit Patel is a big fat loser – a majestic, admirable, envied, big fat loser (plus a round-up of this week’s other first division matches)
2 minute readIf respect were something tangible and delicious rather than an abstract concept, Samit Patel earned more of it than even he could eat this week. He also won the battle of the Patels. What he did not win was ‘the match for Nottinghamshire against Warwickshire’. The man Kevin Pietersen calls
Continue readingSome sort of James Vince type substance
< 1 minute readJames Vince is stylish. We don’t generally trust that in a batsman and the feeling has been compounded by a nameless county bowler who recently told the Guardian’s Mike Selvey: “He likes to look good.” Despite this, it is technically possible that we could warm to a player likely to
Continue readingWhere next for Chris Woakes?
2 minute readChris Woakes played in England’s last Test. He dismissed Stephen Cook for 115. Now he’s out of the team and out of the squad. England like the idea of Woakes, but they don’t like that idea enough to commit to giving him a long run in the side. It’s understandable.
Continue readingThey’re finally using robots to promote cricket tournaments
< 1 minute readAbout time. This particular robot’s got flames for eyes and is, quite frankly, a bit of a tosser. Also keep an eye out for the guy who doesn’t know how to clap. That’s our favourite bit. It’s here. The epic conclusion to the #CricketHasLanded trilogy. Watch Cricket Has Landed 3:
Continue readingCricket was played either side of the Pennines – a County Championship round-up
< 1 minute readIt was an uncharacteristically eventful week by the standards of the 2016 County Championship with two whole wins in the first division. Two losses as well, we suppose. The wins/losses After three successive draws, Yorkshire soared like a heron to their habitual place at the top of the table. Surrey
Continue readingTony Cozier – the man who saw all and knew all of West Indies cricket
2 minute readCricket fans moan about commentators a lot, but in general we are well served by our sport. Tastes differ, but very few talk down to us and the majority have the capacity to offer some sort of insight when working in the right environment. But as the world becomes smaller,
Continue readingCharlotte Edwards’ bit is done – good work
2 minute readWhen Charlotte Edwards first played for England, she wore a skirt. She didn’t choose to. She was obliged to. That debut came when she was 16 (she played for the under-19s at 12) The women’s game has moved on since then and you might have expected her to have been
Continue readingA hatful of willow
2 minute readWill Smith just got off the mark from the 43rd delivery he faced. Hampshire are currently careering along at 1.25 runs an over knowing that the rain that has hit the rest of the country will soon arrive in Manchester. So far, this round of County Championship matches has been
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