< 1 minute readAlso known as ‘Sluggo’, Leverock was a cricketer who played for Bermuda in the 2007 World Cup. He was fat. Sluggo’s finest moment was a diving catch at slip to dismiss Robin Uthappa. His second finest moment was the surging, wobbling sprint that served as his celebration of that dismissal.
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Under-11s match report
2 minute readBert writes: While the opening weeks of the 2012 County Championship season have brought continued glory for champions Lancashire, in the Ted’s Roofing (All your roofing needs met, by Ted) Mid-North Cestrian Third Division Championship League West, Old Filchonians Under 11s have made a somewhat less impressive start. Bert Junior
Continue readingWe now write Cricinfo’s weekly Twitter round-up
< 1 minute readIt would seem that we’re selling off our newsletter for parts. Following cricketers on Twitter is actually pretty boring. James Anderson and Graeme Swann are smart and funny and Dale Steyn used to be, but the rest are generally either illiterate or don’t know when to shut up. The original
Continue readingI no longer write The Cricketer’s weekly newsletter
2 minute readForgive the detour into first-person singular, but this is personal, so I thought I’d write normally for once. I’ve just found out that I will no longer be writing the newsletter for The Cricketer. Today’s edition was my last. What newsletter? On the 18th July, 2008, I wrote my first
Continue readingWhy was Michael Holding’s over to Geoff Boycott so special?
< 1 minute readIt’s that time of the week when we link to an article at Cricinfo in which marzipan gets a mention and you all scour the comments hoping we’ve been ripped apart by a dissatisfied reader. Nothing yet, but let’s give it time. Pretty sure England’s number one ranking will get
Continue readingDoing the decent thing
< 1 minute readThere’s not enough gentlemanly conduct in cricket any more. We don’t mean fair play when we say that. We mean proper, Victorian gentlemanly conduct. Back in Victorian times, life was about doing the decent thing. It was especially important to do the decent thing if it required an extraordinary amount
Continue readingChasing Sachin by Adam Carroll-Smith | book review
< 1 minute readWe’re pretty sure we were meant to get this review up in time for Christmas. Hopefully Adam won’t mind. From reading his book, he seems like the kind of guy who’d understand failure to complete a relatively straightforward task. That happens quite frequently in Chasing Sachin. Not that Adam’s main
Continue readingWhat is a bits and pieces cricketer?
< 1 minute readIt’s the theme of the week. We thought we’d write about it for Cricinfo as well. Chris Harris gets a mention, but we’re not sure we quite got across how much we like him, which is a shame. We really admired Harris’s approach to the game and we’re forever glad
Continue readingPakistan v England in Abu Dhabi match report
2 minute readBradders writes: This was a curious day on which I learnt much. It began however, if not badly, certainly disappointingly. I shouldn’t complain of course seeing as it was a free day out but when you get an unexpected invite to a ‘Corporate Networking Day’ which just happens to be
Continue readingTino Best cups his balls in his left hand
< 1 minute readA ‘balls’ joke. You can tell we’re on holiday.
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