< 1 minute readWe thought this when we saw him bowl during the World Cup. Devendra Bishoo is one of a fair few promising West Indies bowlers knocking about at the minute. The problem is, it’s a challenge for these bowlers to retain enthusiasm when the batsmen only ever give them 200 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.
Links to some non-cricket writing and a bit more background here.
How can England have three captains?
< 1 minute readIt’s fine if you have a clearly defined management structure. By defining the hierarchy and outlining key responsibilities for all staff, everyone knows their role and they can all work together to meet key business goals. Team England really needs a corporate motto. That was a link to our latest
Continue readingFloodlit Test cricket – angry or amazed?
< 1 minute readAmazed. While looking for an image to accompany this post, we discovered that we’d already covered this subject once before. Still, that never normally stops us, so let’s plough on. Give the people what they want That seems a sensible way to market your sport. In England, people don’t particularly
Continue readingRemember Alex Loudon?
< 1 minute readPosh bloke. Played cricket. Retired in favour of a career in ‘business’. Well, apparently he’s even posher than we had suspected. Poshness is largely beyond our comprehension. If you turn your nose up at food that’s been on the floor, you fall into our ‘posh’ category and we struggle to
Continue readingA cricket sign
< 1 minute readNe says: “I saw this.” We asked where it was taken. He said: “In Cardiff. I think.” We asked if he had anything else to add. Ne added that it was taken “in a park”.
Continue readingCraig Kieswetter dominating second-class cricket
< 1 minute readYou have to understand that we’re not criticising Craig Kieswetter. Our issues are with how easily people are impressed and with county cricket in general. Craig Kieswetter scored a hundred again yesterday. Well played Craig. That’s two in a week so SURELY he’s ready to play for England now. Well,
Continue readingEveryone point at Warwickshire and laugh
< 1 minute readBecause that’s how you fold. It’s not so much the being bowled out for 97 on a pitch of kofte bhuna spiciness, it’s the Lancashire bowling figures their middle and lower order so generously created: Simon Kerrigan – five wickets for seven runs Gary Keedy – three wickets for two
Continue readingEngland Test captaincy play-off
< 1 minute readSo Alastair Cook’s an England captain (one-day internationals) and Stuart Broad’s an England captain (Twenty20). But which one will go on to become the REAL England captain – the one who’s in charge of the Test team? Is this really the way to do it. Is this really the plan
Continue readingCounty cricket headline generator
< 1 minute readHowe zat, the sports sub-editors of the nation will forever be in your debt for this:
Continue readingWicketkeeper scores hundred
< 1 minute readThat is all it takes. Craig Kieswetter hasn’t really scored runs in quite some time, but he’s a decent batsman and sooner or later he was going to put that right. Today he made 117 and our first thought was that there would be some knee-jerk media coverage. Sure enough,
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