< 1 minute readThere’s a great interview with Lancashire’s new signing Stephen Moore on the ECB site. If you didn’t know anything about him, you’d come away thinking he was being unfairly kept out of the England side. It’s littered with comments about how he’s ‘ready’. One of our favourite bits is the
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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 DLF minimum number of IPL teams make it into the Champions League semi-finals
< 1 minute readNot one IPL team has made it to the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20. Somewhere a marketing twat mournfully draws a descending line on a profit forecast. Clearly having only three out of the eight IPL teams qualify for the Champions League leaves the cricketainment outfits woefully underrepresented. Next
Continue readingRob Key Surrey rumour falsely monged
< 1 minute readThat’s the last time we’re monging a rumour – even one about Rob Key. We apologise for our ill-advised mongery and promise it won’t happen again. You live the life of a rumour mongerer and you die like a rumour mongerererer: in the wrong. By the way, we’ve heard that
Continue readingCricket writing that doesn’t mention the actual cricket
< 1 minute readActually, he touches on it a little bit, but Edward Craig’s blogs for The Wisden Cricketer are our kind of stuff. He’s in India for the cricket, but he’s mostly writing about mooching about and having a look at a place he’s never been to before. We’re jealous. It takes
Continue readingLancashire v Durham County Championship match report
2 minute readBert writes: It’s the school holidays, so I decided to take my six-year-old son, Bert, to his first live cricket experience (I believe that is what they are called these days). It was day two of the County Championship match between Lancs and Durham, so that seemed ideal. Being the
Continue readingPakistan cricket’s strength and weakness
< 1 minute readHere’s an interesting question for you. If everyone even remotely involved with Pakistani cricket just chilled out a bit, would the team be better or worse? A member of parliament has utterly flipped out and accused the Pakistan national side of match fixing because they lost a match; Pakistan captain,
Continue readingWhat is Matthew Hoggard?
< 1 minute readMatthew Hoggard has been released by Yorkshire. He was offered a contract at the start of the season and it sounds to us like he weighed it up for a bit too long. Hoggard’s understandably pissed off about this, because after 15 years at Yorkshire, he hasn’t had a chance
Continue readingWhat are Royal Challengers Bangalore all about?
< 1 minute readIf you want to get to know one of the IPL teams better, there’s only one thing to do: you watch the video of their theme tune. Royal Challengers Bangalore have a good one. Rahul Dravid looks moody for about 0.1 of a second somewhere in the middle and Kevin
Continue readingChampions League Twenty20 format
< 1 minute readIn the name of having at least half a clue what’s going on, we thought we’d investigate the format of the Champions League Twenty20. They’re currently playing the group stages. There are three teams in each group. They all play each other and then the top two go through to
Continue readingSomerset v Deccan Chargers stands for a lot when it comes to the Twenty20 Champions League
< 1 minute readTo further clarify our feelings about the Twenty20 Champions League, it’ll be interesting precisely as long as there’s a chance that the budget sides might make a joke out of the rampant capitalism on which the whole thing is built. Basically, if Somerset beat Deccan Chargers, it’ll be pretty funny
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