< 1 minute readTell you what we like in cricket: we like people who made their names doing one spectactular thing in particular to do exactly that thing only at a slightly advanced age. For example, you might say to a cricketing newcomer: “This is Sanath Jayasuriya. He’s famous for scoring runs ludicrously
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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.
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< 1 minute readWe’re doing some writing on The Wisden Cricketer website as part of our Care in the Community rehabilitation scheme. It’s okay – we’re being supervised. The Wisden Cricketer is a friend to cricket blogs, so we feel obliged to link to their home page as well as our first blog
Continue readingQuote of the year
< 1 minute read“I’ve got a wife and child now and don’t have much time to worry about toilet seats and taping bats to the ceiling.” – Neil McKenzie You know what it’s like when you’re younger and you’re free to do as you please, you can merrily worry about toilet seats to
Continue readingSimon Jones mops up the tail
< 1 minute readGive Simon Jones a mop and present him with a flexible rear appendage and he will GET TO WORK. Jones took 5-30 against Leicestershire yesterday, clean bowling eight, nine and ten to finish the innings. It’s not the first time this season he’s bulked up the wickets column by polishing
Continue readingEngland v New Zealand: it’s been…
< 1 minute read…of a lengthy duration. We’re not the kind of cricket site that’s ashamed when we completely overlook an England one-day international and the nineteenth match in a row between England and New Zealand was no time to adopt professionalism. When England were in New Zealand, they won the Tests and
Continue readingKevin Pietersen to captain England
2 minute readPaul Collingwood’s been banned for four matches for England’s slow over rate and Kevin Pietersen‘s picked up the reigns to the haggard, lifeless horse that is the England one-day side. We’re not unhappy about this. We’ve said before that we think Kevin Pietersen would make a half-decent captain. KP said
Continue readingSuresh Raina was there too
< 1 minute readWith Virender Sehwag doing some spectacular repairs to his surprisingly ordinary one-day record, it’s easy to overlook his juvenile, boundary-hitting accomplice, Suresh Raina. Sehwag followed his 44 ball 78 against the might of Hong Kong with a 95-ball 119 against Pakistan’s increasingly mediocre attack. Suresh Raina took 68 balls to
Continue readingRunning out a player who’s on the deck
< 1 minute readWe like a bit of ruthlessness, but there’s a fairly clear line between ‘ruthlessness’ and ‘being a dick’. We call it the ‘being a dick line’ and we always try and stay the right side of it. England didn’t. Ryan Sidebottom went after the ball and inadvertently decked Grant Elliott
Continue readingLast ball finishes are good whatever length the format
< 1 minute readWhat a great match. What a fantastic finish. One-day cricket’s an idiot – how can it not know that it’s dead? Twenty20 waited for one-day cricket in an Indian backstreet and when one-day cricket arrived, Twenty20 beat it senseless with a black cricket bat. One-day cricket’s bloodied and barely conscious,
Continue readingGraham Napier’s ‘mensely bad timing
< 1 minute readThis is what we’re pommily whinging about. Graham Napier hit ‘mense amounts of runs off negligible balls due to a ‘mense number of sixes. Yet where’s our report? Napier’s innings ended during the beer hours and we can’t be expected to remain coherent at that time. How much more ‘mensely
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