< 1 minute readWe’re committed to documenting the effects of the climax of the County Championship, but we’re really starting to fear for our life now. Last night, we heard screaming outside our house. It was these two girls and they were having a MAJOR disagreement. They were so shrieky, we could only
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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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The County Championship – now it’s a crisis
< 1 minute readOkay, we don’t want you to worry, but things are really getting out of hand now. The nation is going FULLY MENTAL as we approach the climax of the County Championship. You’d better brace yourself, because the story that follows is pretty damn alarming. Okay, so we were buying a
Continue readingWere you doing something else when England played India at the Rose Bowl?
< 1 minute readMaybe you were pipe-cleaner modelling or carrying out wig maintenance. Here’s what you missed: Vinay Kumar seemingly wearing clogs MS Dhoni keeping without a hat on Alastair Cook slogging a single to cow corner off the back foot about 40 times
Continue readingCounty Championship fever – more evidence
< 1 minute readWe took a walk alongside the canal last night. At one point, a barge went past and the guy at the tiller was clearly SUPER EXCITED about the climax of the County Championship. He just had that air about him. With the next round of matches starting tomorrow, he was
Continue readingThe County Championship title race
< 1 minute readUp and down the country, people are SUPER EXCITED about the climax of the County Championship. We were in the supermarket at the weekend and we saw this woman shopping with her kid. You could tell that she was super excited about the County Championship and wanted to make sure
Continue readingNasser Hussain describes one or two India players as ‘donkeys’
< 1 minute readThe BCCI are pissed off because Nasser Hussain said some of the India players were donkeys in the field. British viewers will find the comments below pretty innocuous, because ‘donkey’ is pretty common slang over here when referring to less athletic fielders. We’re guessing the term isn’t used so much
Continue readingWarwickshire and their West Indian batsman
< 1 minute readWarwickshire are well poised in the County Championship and as so often with that competition, you can’t really work out how they got there. They sort of bumbled along there or thereabouts for most of the season and then they SIGNED SHIVNARINE CHANDERPAUL. That’s how it happened. Yes, other people
Continue readingA good pitch in Galle in Sri Lanka
< 1 minute readWe haven’t seen today’s play in the first Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, but having seen yesterday’s we’re opting to be quietly impressed rather than blown away by Nathan Lyon’s debut, despite the fact that he took 5-34 in Sri Lanka’s first innings. Why? Because he is bowling on
Continue readingThat’s Dr Dhoni to you
< 1 minute readJust like Ian Botham, MS Dhoni is now a doctor of letters. De Montford University gave him the honour, which led to this quite marvellous photograph: You didn’t have a suit, MS? No? Nothing? No smart trousers or anything? Okay, no, it’s fine. No problem at all. It’s just, you
Continue readingEngland v Sri Lanka first Test match report
2 minute readNobody make a Jon/John Lewis joke about this match report. That will not be acceptable. Dandy Dan writes: I was just about to leave work and head down to Cardiff when Mr Puffin asked if he could come too. I said yes and so off we went. We got to
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