< 1 minute readIf you read about county cricket much, you’ll be familiar with this kind of thing. A player you hadn’t thought about a right lot suddenly starts worming his way into every second article, even though he doesn’t seem to have done anything especially eyecatching. In May 2014, that person is
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Otherwise known as Alex Bowden, a lapsed cricket journalist who has written for ESPNCricinfo, wisden.com, Cricket 365, The Cricketer and plenty of other places.
Links to some non-cricket writing and a bit more background here.
Selling your brand of cricket
< 1 minute readWe’ve done a non-satirical piece for Cricinfo. It’s about branding. Or is it? Perhaps it would be more accurate to say it’s about propaganda. A lot of the focus is on how the Australian cricket team cherry picks facets of its game to talk up while saying very little about
Continue readingDon Bradman Cricket 14 review | Xbox 360 and PS3
3 minute readBuy Don Bradman Cricket 14 from Amazon No, you haven’t missed 13 iterations of this game. That 14’s the year. Quite why the year’s relevant when the game’s named after a guy who died 13 years ago is beyond us, but there you go. Why Don Bradman? It’s unusual to
Continue readingMoney, retirement and a sad day for anyone who mourns lost brews
< 1 minute readNobody ever thinks of the hot beverages when there’s a natural disaster. But they can be casualties too – as you’ll discover if you read our Twitter round-up for Cricinfo. Our favourite bit’s Lonwabo Tsotsobe’s blunt realism though, which basically boils down to: ‘Don’t imagine anything good will ever happen
Continue readingOr how about Samit Patel?
< 1 minute readThis early season is taking us back. Before Panesar and then Swann, picking an England spin bowler was like buying discounted fruit and veg. There was something wrong with whatever you chose, but could you find a way of using it somehow? You needed the vitamins, after all. We feel
Continue readingWho’s got gloves? Have you got gloves? Okay, you’re picked
< 1 minute readSay what you like about Craig Kieswetter’s work behind the sticks, at least he owns a pair of gloves. We’ve half a mind that he’ll end up as England’s Test wicketkeeper simply because he’s the only one who spends any time actually keeping wicket. Today’s Yorkshire report on Cricinfo centres
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< 1 minute readJust a quick update to draw your attention to an old post which a lot of you won’t have seen because it’s from 2009. It’s about Jim Foat. If you don’t know Jim Foat, it’s hopefully worth a read, but that’s not the main reason why we’re reviving it today.
Continue readingGucci the Duck
< 1 minute readWe wrote about Graham Gooch’s exit as batting coach for Cricket365. Having referred to him as being a dead duck in that article, we have since found ourself absent-mindedly imagining a short story in which everyone’s favourite once-moustachioed, daddy-hundred-loving, former England opening batsman actually is a duck. In the story,
Continue readingYou’re in the wrong place
< 1 minute readBecause honestly, what’s the point updating this website on a day when someone else has published a Rob Key interview? It reminds us why we like him. What is the best thing about playing cricket at Canterbury? There’s a Sainsbury’s at the ground. Ever since 2008, we’ve had a draft
Continue readingHow to pick an England team
< 1 minute readWe wrote about how to set about the task of picking an England team for Cricinfo. We were meant to do the Twitter thing, but thanks to our unrivalled ability to not really know what’s happening from one week to the next, we got it wrong. Cricinfo were very nice
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