< 1 minute readHowe zat, the sports sub-editors of the nation will forever be in your debt for this:
Continue readingAuthor: King Cricket
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.
Wicketkeeper 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,
Continue readingInterstate competition, Bhawaripatnam v Konta at Jagdalpur – match report
3 minute readGed Ladd writes: Bunty is a big cheese in Jagdalpur – he and our guide Jolly’s family have just opened this new Bastar Jungle Resort and we were their first English guests. Soon chat turned to cricket. “Oh you like cricket”, said Bunty. “You must visit my hotel in town
Continue readingThe Robin Hoods lead the Stephen Tomkinsons
< 1 minute readHmm. We might abandon our plan to give every county new, ever-changing nicknames deriving from the names of famous people from the respective areas. It’s not so much that using a different nickname in every post will be confusing – we’ve no problem with that – it’s just that we
Continue readingFailure to repeat until funny
< 1 minute readFrom the comments on our latest Cricinfo article: “Ok, the sole joke of the article was silence, and quite frankly it needed at least a bit more to take it anywhere. Page 2 has definitely seen much better.” It’s a dark day. We’re going to have to redouble our efforts.
Continue readingLet Guru Fletcher make your decisions for you
< 1 minute readDid you know that you can get a sense of what you should do in any given situation simply by gazing at inscrutable Guru Dunc standing motionless in his dark glasses and broad-brimmed hat? It’s true. Check this out. Should I have jerk chicken or takeaway pizza for tea tonight?
Continue readingSome horror involving Alec Stewart
< 1 minute readExplanation: “Discretionary wealth managers JM Finn & Co have appointed legendary former England wicket keeper Alec Stewart as their brand ambassador.” And another tiny piece of all of us dies.
Continue readingDuncan Fletcher, India coach
< 1 minute readSounds wrong, but we’re going to have to get used to it. Some believe that Fletcher got this job because of the brilliant work he did with England (and yes, overall it was brilliant), but we suspect it was more that India wanted somebody jowelly and unfriendly on their staff
Continue readingKing Cricket wields a staggering degree of influence
< 1 minute readWe’ve an announcement to make. Remember how we got unjustifiably worked up about the shape of the K in the middle of the new logo for The Cricketer? Well, we’ve just had word from their offices and it seems that they’ve been moved to carry out AN OFFICIAL REVIEW. That’s
Continue readingBilal Shafayat will be back
< 1 minute readMany of you will have read this week’s Spin in which Andy Bull describes Bilal Shafayat’s skittery descent to the Birmingham Leagues. Shafayat was one of our ones to watch in 2006 and 2007. Stories like Shafayat’s sometimes seem like tragedies, but that’s only really when the player in question
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