2 minute readGed writes: A week or so before the match, I e-mailed King Cricket for some advice: “I find myself on business in Manchester Thursday/Friday and have engineered an early evening gap in my activities Thursday so I can see most (at least the closing stages) of England’s T20 semi final.
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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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IC 2010 video preview
< 1 minute readMassively disappointed that this isn’t an International Cricket Council backstab simulator. That joke worked better before we realised it was ‘IC’ and not ‘ICC’. We get a penny every time a new person watches this. We’re thinking about buying ourself some crisps later in the year. To be honest, we’re
Continue readingOverturning Shoaib Malik’s ban was the best decision
< 1 minute readWe’re using ‘best’ to mean ‘funniest’ there. Of all the player punishments to have been reversed by the PCB in the last few weeks, the reasoning behind the Shoaib Malik decision was the best. Lest we forget, Shoaib Malik was banned for a year for being a negative influence on
Continue readingEngland v Bangladesh match report
2 minute readWe write: After several days of maft, day three of the second Test between England and Bangladesh began with wet sunlight. It dried up mid-morning and upon arriving at Old Trafford just after 1pm, we were delighted to see that there was a Wainwright Cask Ale Tent. We paid it
Continue readingThe Point at Old Trafford Cricket Ground
< 1 minute readWhat do you make of The Point? We think it looks like an old-fashioned fan heater – only red. A friend of ours thinks it looks like someone’s knocked over a toaster – only red. It’s not bad. Some cricket folk are getting a bit carried away with what it
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< 1 minute readAt 13.22pm, we received word that the crowd had begun construction of the first beer snake. Due to a reduction in staff, production is slow, but overtime may be on offer for those willing to work late.
Continue readingZimbabwe beating India again – how do we feel about that?
< 1 minute readWe know you don’t like it when we don’t have an opinion on something. It’s not that we’re fence-sitting, it’s that in reality we don’t have all that many opinions. We wander through life indecisive and directionless and we’ve done that since before we went to school. Opinions occasionally find
Continue readingRicky Ponting strives for coherence
< 1 minute read“I guess we speak pretty loosely, don’t we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that – and we are, but it’s not with both eyes. We’ve got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we’re the best
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< 1 minute readWith England winning the World Twenty20 at about the time it went live, we forgot to point out this article we did for Cricinfo about momentum. We did two pieces for Cricinfo around that time. One we were quite proud of; the other we weren’t really. Having just read the
Continue readingScotland v Kent match report
2 minute readDandy Dan wanted to include whispering to Amjad Khan that his was one of the worst debut performances for England that he’d seen, but felt that was far too much to do with the cricket. Instead, he writes: The day started with a feeling of the unknown. I’d invited a
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