< 1 minute readCricinfo has changed. This is likely to be of at least some significance to you as someone who follows cricket online. What’s your opinion on the change? ESPN The first thing that struck us is that Cricinfo has been ‘acquired’ by ESPN. You have to say ‘acquired’. We don’t know
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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.
A reason and a half why England have already won the Ashes
< 1 minute readSwing bowling Give an Australian bowler the solidified lump of blancmange known as a Kookaburra cricket ball (which is used in Australia) and he’ll pound in and bowl at off stump until the batsman deliberately misses one to save himself from the boredom. Give an Australian bowler an English Duke
Continue readingThe Australian cricket team has landed
< 1 minute readImpartiality is a worthy quality, but as of this minute our love-hate relationship with many of Australia’s players has clarified into a hate relationship. There might be a World Cup before the first Test, but let’s be honest, this Ashes series has started. It began the minute our pensioner-skinned cousins
Continue readingA cricket bat invading a rival sport
< 1 minute readSam writes: Please find attached a picture of a cricket bat in an unusual place, namely being used as a cue in a game of pool. In an attempt to educate our co-worker Vita in the ways of King Cricket, we equipped her with said blade and sent her in
Continue readingThe Mongoose cricket bat means business
< 1 minute readSpecifically, it intends to attend meetings and conferences, do Powerpoint presentations and take care of ‘the bottom line’. Whatever that might mean. The Mongoose is a cricket bat that looks like it’s got a ridiculously long handle, but actually it’s just that the main bit’s shorter. The thinking is that
Continue readingWhat I Love About Cricket by Sandy Balfour | book review
4 minute readYou have to write in some detail when you do a book review, but in our eyes there are two main types of books. There are books that you enjoy and there are books that you have to force yourself to read. We enjoyed What I Love About Cricket and
Continue readingKolkata Knight Riders T-shirt
< 1 minute readSee our latest cricket T-shirts here They do one with a picture of the owner, Shah Rukh Khan, on: We’re waiting for Lancashire to start selling Jim Cumbes T-shirts, but he’s retiring soon, so it’ll probably never happen.
Continue readingEngland pass 300 in a one-day international
< 1 minute readThis is very much a red-letter day. England pass 300 in one-day internationals very rarely. Where other nations are forever launching sixes and sailing past 300, England are usually batting quite sensibly for a bit before thinking ‘OH MY GOD! WHAT ABOUT THE RUN RATE? WE’VE TOTALLY FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE
Continue readingThe best of New Zealand’s sporting stalking
< 1 minute readHave you ever wished that there was an online resource where you could submit an encounter with a well-known sports star and peruse other people’s similar brushes with fame? Do you wish that the recording of such information could be done in New Zealand, perhaps for legal reasons? Well then,
Continue readingHow accurate are cricket speed guns?
< 1 minute readYou would have to say that cricket speed guns aren’t hugely accurate. They seem okay most of the time, then every now and again you get a wonky match where everbody’s bowling at 93mph. This is what happened at Lord’s a week or so ago when England’s bowling attack suddenly
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