< 1 minute readWe’ve mentioned before that Jos Buttler would always be in our International Cricket Captain one-day team. At least he would be if we actually played the game any more. That might not sound like a particularly resounding vote of confidence, but it really is. We’d go so far as to
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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.
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Do you remember Matthew Hoggard the Test cricketer? Do you ACTUALLY REMEMBER?
3 minute readHave you ever been at a funeral where they’ve skipped through the first 80 years of the person’s life before really dwelling on recent history? Half a century of adult life is summed up by counting progeny and then all the eulogy goes on about is how you liked a
Continue readingTim Bresnan falls between two stools
< 1 minute readNot really cycling. Just putting in some training for next year's Tour De France.@GaryVerity @Welcome2Yorks I know the roads #advantage pic.twitter.com/TqMIRmnZYG — Tim Bresnan (@timbresnan) September 9, 2013 And not cricket either. He gets one point for trying to broaden his horizons. Zero points for execution.
Continue readingWhy you don’t give a toss about England v Australia this month
< 1 minute readFollowing yesterday’s look at the workload that is being shouldered by fans, it seems a decent time to restate our position that ODIs don’t matter. We were quite surprised to note that the article in question was written almost two and a half years ago and so there may well
Continue readingSitting out England matches as a fan
< 1 minute readBeing as this website is pretty much written by one person and being as you read this website, it shouldn’t be all that outlandish to suggest that you read something we’ve written elsewhere. Yes, we know that the comments are the main thing here, but even so, surely something must
Continue reading2013 County Championship – chapter 11
2 minute readThis really got away from us. Not particularly looking forward to writing this update, it must be said. 1st – Durham Okay, Durham weren’t even in the top three the last time we did this in, er, July. Let’s try and work out how they’ve done this. Battered Derbyshire Soundly
Continue reading“Vitiated on account of malafide”
< 1 minute readThank you, the IPL, and Lalit Modi specifically, for introducing us to this phrase. It appears to be Modi’s main defence in misconduct charges related to bid-rigging, ‘arm-twisting’ and summat to do with the sale of TV rights. It basically boils down to: “He’s well got it in for me,”
Continue readingMiddlesex v Surrey County Championship day one match report
2 minute readGed writes: Early season, I always try to take in a day of county cricket with my old friend, Charley “The Gent” Malloy. It helps us both to get over the winter withdrawal symptoms. Before long, we were tucking in to salmon bagels (honey roasted salmon, not the more common
Continue readingAn Englishman and an Irishman walk onto a cricket field
2 minute readSometimes there is cricket news that positively cries out for an irreverent article. In these situations, we know instantly that we should produce no such thing. It’s usually the kind of news that people email us about; the kind of topic people think we would cover well. It’s usually something
Continue readingJames Tredwell is a cult hero, right?
< 1 minute readWe just want to confirm this really. He seems to have all the requisite qualities. Deluxe Nineties cricketer Of all England’s current players, James Tredwell is the one we think would have seemed most at home in England teams of the Nineties. He boasts a kind-of-okay first-class record and no
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