< 1 minute readECB Bod: Right, okay. We’re here to sort out this mess that we call county cricket. First of all: what’s the problem? ECB Fella: Well it’s too much cricket, isn’t it? We’ve commissioned 15 studies, asked the players, asked the media, asked the fans, asked this guy with sticks in
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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.
The average one-day series
< 1 minute readSome players injured, some players rested, ‘trying out options’ ahead of the World Cup, introducing younger players. The reasons are varied, the teams are shit. Take a look at the Australia team from their last one-day international and then take Mike Hussey out as well, because he’s going back to
Continue readingImagine you’re Shane Warne
< 1 minute readWe’ll give you a minute or two to get to grips with that. You can come back later if it’s too much to take in at once. For those of you who are okay, we’ll continue. So you’re Shane Warne. With your reputation, would you choose to put this image
Continue readingFoo picked for West Indies A-team
< 1 minute readDo we pity him? We were brought up to believe that a foo’ was someone to be pitied and the one place where we wouldn’t expect to find one would be in an A-team. This actually is political correctness gone mad – employing a foo’ as a key component in
Continue readingWhy a Bangladesh series win is great news
< 1 minute readOne of the more interesting one-day series has just finished with Bangladesh emerging 4-0 winners over New Zealand. There are two types of people when it comes to gauging Bangladesh’s progress: the people who look at the scorecards and the people who look at the results. Those of us in
Continue readingJames Anderson gets hurt by the ECB
< 1 minute readComplete this well-known phrase: “You boys stop fighting or someone’s going to get…” The ECB are normally so keen to cotton wool their cricketers that the poor sods can barely take a slash without someone checking they don’t direct the stream into their own eyes, blinding themselves. With that in
Continue readingShane Watson, Andrew Symonds and the scented candle – an abbreviated anecdote
< 1 minute readWatson thought the changing room stank and lit a scented candle. Andrew Symonds gave him shit for it. Andrew Symonds comes out of this well; Shane Watson less so. This tale comes from Matthew Hayden’s autobiography. We hope we get a review copy. Buying Matthew Hayden’s autobiography would effectively mean
Continue readingDoes a Test championship need a final?
2 minute readThe ICC have announced that there will now be a four year Test championship. At the end of the cycle, the top four teams enter play-offs and then there’s a final. We do understand the significance of a final – the two best teams pitted against each other is always
Continue readingNathan Hauritz – number one Australian spinner
< 1 minute readShane Warne said that Nathan Hauritz was being given a crap field by Ricky Ponting today. Being as Hauritz went for 76 in 12 overs on a fifth day Indian pitch, we’d guess that Ponting was only using four or five fielders. Hauritz is currently said to be Australia’s number
Continue readingAndrew McDonald endures a duck and then scores a hundred
< 1 minute readAndrew McDonald hit 163 off just 116 balls for Victoria this week, despite a duck before play. “We walked too close to the ducklings and the old father duck attacked me. He got on top of my backpack and started chipping away at my head. It was a savage attack
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