2 minute readBalladeer writes: One of the few things I knew was vital was preparation. One doesn’t just take any old food to The Home of Cricket. So I pondered my options. Waitrose? M&S? Selfridges, for the extra touch of privately educated class? Alas, I also had to pick up some washing
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Mop-up of the day – Sweet, sour, bitter, savoury
2 minute readA bitter-sweet mop-up of the day today, like someone’s spilt a honey-and-lemon sore throat remedy. Actually, maybe that’s sweet and sour. A sour-sweet mop-up of the day today. Sour James Anderson is out of England’s tour of Bangladesh and probably won’t be back until halfway through the India tour. No
Continue readingA cricket bat in a real tennis place
< 1 minute readGed writes: I know what you are thinking, dear reader: “That real tennis workshop must be at Lord’s; how can Lord’s be an unusual place to see a cricket bat?” Well I’m here to tell you that the real tennis area at Lord’s is a relentlessly cricket equipment free zone.
Continue readingThis is not about the England squad for the Bangladesh tour
< 1 minute readWe can’t remember what time our own email goes out. Is it 11am? We could just check the timestamp on an old one, we suppose – but who’s honestly got time to do that? We suspect it’s actually 10am, but on the offchance it’s an hour later, here’s a link
Continue readingI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – the city-based T20 edition
3 minute readA semi-regular feature in which we ask Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. We were talking about fat cricketers last time around. It was pointed out to us that the team that won this year’s T20 competition ‘likes
Continue readingI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – county attendances and world record scores
2 minute readA semi-regular feature in which we ask Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. As we speak, the team in first place in the County Championship has played 12 matches, won four and drawn eight. What do you make of that? I know what you’re trying to
Continue readingA quite possibly harrowing development involving a car number plate
< 1 minute readBert writes: It’s been months now since The Revered One departed this plane of existence and ascended to the Sky (Sports studio). Such elevation cannot but affect a man, but I must say I had thought that Robert the Great would be immune, that he would be able to maintain
Continue readingA new low for cricket – a new low for the world
< 1 minute readThis represents so much of what’s wrong with the world. England organise a penalty shoot out before a nets session #eng #EngvsPak ???? @jwsportsphoto – https://t.co/q9QOEDst5Y pic.twitter.com/Ojdiv2HJUE — PA Images (@PAImages) August 26, 2016 You can’t even see the full horror from that. We saw it because it had been
Continue readingWarwickshire v Middlesex match report
< 1 minute readYou may or may not know that the one quality we always look for in a piece of writing is brevity. If you have submitted a match report and seen it hacked to a skeleton, you will know this. Ged has submitted countless match reports. We semi-regularly tell him to
Continue readingI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It
2 minute readWelcome to ‘I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It,’ our innovative new feature in which we ask someone who hates cricket about cricket. How do you feel about becoming King Cricket’s largely uninformed cricket correspondent? Don’t care. I only did it because you said I definitely wouldn’t. Now I’m a
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