2 minute readSuppose we should take a look at how our 2011 County Championship players to watch fared. Adam Lyth, Yorkshire 553 runs at 26.33 Yeah, that’s pretty shoddy. James Hildreth, Somerset 893 runs at 38.82 That’s okay. Ben Stokes, Durham 628 runs at 48.30 and 17 wickets at 33.00 Three hundreds,
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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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Middlesex v Surrey Twenty20 match report
2 minute readGed writes: Ged Ladd & Co Ltd quietly works wonders for world cricket. People from all manner of countries where cricket is barely played (e.g. Bulgaria, Switzerland, Nigeria, Russia, Belgium, USA, Italy, China, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa) have been introduced to cricket through our company scratch matches and T20
Continue readingA pigeon being conspicuously indifferent to Rob Key
< 1 minute readThe Dawg writes: I’m all for animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, but have you seen who is at the crease? This is taken from a Kent v Surrey T20 game at the Oval. That pigeon should show more respect. If you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicously
Continue readingMarketing England one-day matches in 2012
< 1 minute readThe marketing men and women have got a tough task on their hands trying to generate interest in England’s 13 one-day internationals and four Twenty20 internationals next summer. This is because: There are far, far, far too many matches No-one in England gives a toss about short-form cricket outside of
Continue readingAre you convinced by Jade Dernbach and his variations?
2 minute readWe’re not making a point of criticising England’s newer bowlers. We’re just pointing out that we aren’t living in a bounteous land of champagne fountains and gold furniture. Players are being talked about as if they’re staggeringly gifted when they’re not. The English treat one-day cricket like some mystical oddity.
Continue readingStuart Meaker and England selection
< 1 minute readIn years gone by, you wouldn’t have trusted the England selectors to identify the best cricketer on an episode of A Question Of Sport, but this batch, led by Geoff Miller, has earned respect. Even so, it doesn’t pay to get too clever. Earlier this year, we said that Stuart
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< 1 minute readOur mum writes: As a thank you to KC’s dad for the loan of his DIY skills, a friend gave us two tickets for this historic day. There is nothing like a day in the members’ stand at Lord’s to make one feel young. We must have considerably reduced the
Continue readingThe English cricket backslapathon and what it means for Ravi Bopara
2 minute readWe sometimes experience this phenomenon where the girl driving the car behind seems to be the most beautiful woman in the world. This is true when we catch a glimpse of her for a fraction of a second, from a distance, while we’re both moving, but then she pulls up
Continue readingRemembering Dominic Cork
< 1 minute readRetiring from cricket at the age of 40 is a bit like dying at a grand old age. People naturally focus on what’s fresh in the memory. People remember your interests as being duck-feeding and ailment comparison with your peers, even though you were once a fighter pilot and later
Continue readingWe wrote about India losing over at Cricinfo
< 1 minute readWe’re hoping to attract some decent ill-feeling in the comments section, but there’s little so far. Maybe there’s a great pile of vitriol just waiting to be approved by a moderator. We did have a bit about Sachin Tendulkar failing to score his hundredth international hundred, but something similar had
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