< 1 minute readThis County Championship coverage is hanging by a thread. Honestly. By. A. Thread. 1st – Yorkshire Yorkshire now have an eight-point lead. Like Sussex in our last round-up, they failed to beat Surrey and had to make do with a draw. We may at some point have to consider the
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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.
It’s all coming together perfectly for England
< 1 minute readJoe Root’s geting comfortable in his bowling boots. Tim Bresnan and Graeme Swann are enjoying the feel of their batting gloves. Except for the fact that the batsmen aren’t making runs and the bowlers aren’t taking wickets, everything’s going exactly as planned in England’s warm-up match against Essex. But who
Continue readingCricket bats in Jinja, Uganda
2 minute readSam writes: Please find attached a picture of several cricket bats in an unusual place, namely a glass case in a shop in Jinja, Uganda. I took this picture as I was walking along the main road in Jinja, which is a fairly small town about an hour’s drive away
Continue readingThe 2013 King Cricket Ashes and Priestly Vestments Summer Crossword by Bert
< 1 minute readBert writes: I’ve done another crossword. I was going to wait till a full year had passed since the last one, but with the upcoming summer of cricket I thought it would be appropriate to do it now. So here it is – the 2013 King Cricket Ashes and Priestly
Continue readingWho is Darren Lehmann and why is he called Boof?
< 1 minute readSometimes it can seem like not a year goes by without the number of people on Earth who are younger than us growing. As sickening as it might be, we have to accept that there may be upwards of one person reading this website who isn’t old enough to remember
Continue readingSurely the best way to follow this year’s Tour de France
< 1 minute readThe Tour de France starts on Saturday. We’ll be writing about it daily over at our cycling site. We’re going to try and do one piece after each stage, which should be nice and manageable for busy, successful individuals like yourselves. This week’s preview week, so if you’re remotely interested,
Continue readingNo desk for Nick Compton
2 minute readThere’s been no announcement that Nick Compton has been dropped from England’s Test squad, but he isn’t in the squad to play a warm-up match against Essex and Geoff Miller, the national selector, said that Joe Root is “currently the best opening partner” for Alastair Cook. It rather smacks of
Continue readingAustralia aren’t taking the Mickey any longer
< 1 minute readAnd thus they have sacked him. Darren Lehmann will replace Mickey Arthur as Australia’s head coach. Lehmann is a decent replacement, but we feel the side would have been better off with an alternative candidate: Alf Stewart from Home and Away. Stewart is from the no-nonsense school of professional Australianism.
Continue readingStumped by Dhoni and his experience
< 1 minute readIndia’s Champions Trophy victory presents a good opportunity to bring this post about Twenty20 wicketkeeping to prominence once again. In a 20-over match, two of England’s top three were stumped by MS Dhoni and he could conceivably have had a third dismissal of that nature towards the end of the
Continue readingIndia are better than everyone
2 minute readAnd are thus honoured with the Champions Trophy white jackets. What an honour. The final was an odd one, not least because it featured only 40 per cent of the scheduled overs. As soon as they announced it would be 20 overs a side, everyone started talking about six-hitting, but
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