< 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
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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.
A 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
Continue readingMighty giants and flying badgers
< 1 minute readTwenty20 finals day was how the format should be. When it’s all professional, it’s rubbish. It’s best when it’s a complete shambles and no-one really knows what’s going on. Lancashire got knocked out in the semi-final, but we didn’t mind because they got knocked out by Will Jefferson. Despite being
Continue readingWhy is cricket popular with women?
< 1 minute readA comment on this post deserves wider exposure. Viagogo appeared to conclude that they were only selling more cricket tickets to women because some England players are good looking. We asked our female readers whether they were buying tickets in order to ogle Jimmy Anderson while he stands at fine
Continue readingLiz Hurley, Pippa Middleton and “the Barbie Army”
< 1 minute readWe’d be interested to know what our female readers make of Viagogo’s latest press release, entitled: ‘Make way for the Barbie Army’. Apparently, they have seen a 240 per cent increase in females purchasing cricket tickets. Why might this be? “Possibly inspired by Liz Hurley’s ‘passion’ for the game and
Continue readingThis has to be the last Matthew Hayden post
< 1 minute readIn 2006, we started writing about how Matthew Hayden spoke bollocks. At that point, his batting drew most people’s attention and it hadn’t been widely acknowledged that the man was sucking all meaning out of words and then piling them together arbitrarily. Now everyone has noticed. Even Michael Atherton’s slagging
Continue readingWhat’s the mace up to today?
< 1 minute readIt’s just chilling out, having a couple of beers with its mates.
Continue readingHas someone in England been given a giant mace for being good at summat?
< 1 minute readYou bet your boots they have. The rest of us are just going to have to accept that we probably aren’t going to be given giant maces for implementing efficiency measures that led to a reduction in overall losses in the second financial quarter when compared to the same period
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