2 minute readLet’s wrap things up. As ever, all fixtures and team names may be incorrect. The writer accepts no responsibility for factual accuracy. 1st – Durham Having won the County Championship, Durham promptly lost to Sussex. 2nd – Yorkshire Yorkshire beat Middlesex with a young scamp by the name of Ryan
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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.
We wait on the Buttler
< 1 minute readIf you report on player transfers before they’ve been confirmed, you’re starting out on a slippery slope. Next thing you know, you’ve got a section of your website called ‘transfer gossip’ which wastes people’s time telling them about things which won’t happen. We’re not sure exactly where we’re up to
Continue readingDerbyshire are down
< 1 minute readWorcestershire Northamptonshire are up. Surrey have an 18-year-old who can score double hundreds and may finally stop dicking about hoovering up ageing stars from other counties. We’re thinking of rebranding King Cricket ‘the home of in-depth inaccurate county cricket coverage’.
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2 minute readSam writes: Birmingham gets a lot of stick. I’ve never been sure why. I think it’s because nobody really knows what it is. Is it north or south? Is it Britain’s second city or just a collection of old car factories? The comedy accent doesn’t help, nor does the list
Continue readingEngland include a man called Gary Ballance in their Ashes squad
2 minute readThat’s what we think of you, punsome headlines. No way. No effing way. We might indulge in an opaque vertigo reference should Gary Ballance later get dropped, but that’s as much as you’re getting. So, the England squad then? You knew most of it anyway. These are the other bits.
Continue readingWhen Mr Cricket became Mr Anecdote
< 1 minute readIf you’re thinking of reading Mike Hussey’s autobiography, you’d better HOLD ON TIGHT. Published excerpts reveal that after his final Test, the team were all going to have a boat party, but that Hussey didn’t want to go because his children wouldn’t have been allowed. Apparently some players wanted to
Continue readingSurrey are down
< 1 minute readLancashire are up. Nottinghamshire have won the one-day competition. Never let it be said that we can’t do “news”. If Reuters or Associated Press want to offer us a lucrative contract to churn out those inspid pieces which clog sports pages, we’re open to offers. It would be a dream
Continue reading2013 County Championship – chapter 12
< 1 minute readIt’s worth squeezing in a wedger of a County Championship update, what with Durham having won the title and all. They have 10 wins and two draws from 15 matches and completely deserve their damp September glory. These aren’t necessarily final standings. Most teams still have a match and a
Continue readingMiddlesex v Surrey County Championship day two match report
2 minute readGed writes: An annual tradition in my business is to have a day of County Championship cricket at Lord’s with Uncail Micheál, my Irish-American business partner. Uncail Micheál is a real stickler for spelling and grammar. Indeed, he has specifically become a stickler for English spelling and grammar; he was
Continue readingThe international summer is over
< 1 minute readIt went out with a bang, on a cold, damp, September evening with the run-rate slowly climbing beyond being chaseable and a few drunk people chanting discordantly at a handful of lower-order England batsmen most of them hadn’t really heard of. Even watching on TV, it felt a bit like
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