< 1 minute readWe’re hoping to attract some decent ill-feeling in the comments section, but there’s little so far. Maybe there’s a great pile of vitriol just waiting to be approved by a moderator. We did have a bit about Sachin Tendulkar failing to score his hundredth international hundred, but something similar had
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Surrey v Middlesex match report
2 minute readSam writes: Angry clouds greeted my arrival at the second day of the Guildford cricket festival. A colleague had promised a press pass would be waiting for me “at the gate.” Predictably, no such pass materialised, and said colleague was incommunicado, away on an all expenses paid trip to Spain.
Continue readingNasser Hussain describes one or two India players as ‘donkeys’
< 1 minute readThe BCCI are pissed off because Nasser Hussain said some of the India players were donkeys in the field. British viewers will find the comments below pretty innocuous, because ‘donkey’ is pretty common slang over here when referring to less athletic fielders. We’re guessing the term isn’t used so much
Continue readingEngland v Sri Lanka first Test match report
2 minute readNobody make a Jon/John Lewis joke about this match report. That will not be acceptable. Dandy Dan writes: I was just about to leave work and head down to Cardiff when Mr Puffin asked if he could come too. I said yes and so off we went. We got to
Continue readingWhy is cricket popular with women?
< 1 minute readA comment on this post deserves wider exposure. Viagogo appeared to conclude that they were only selling more cricket tickets to women because some England players are good looking. We asked our female readers whether they were buying tickets in order to ogle Jimmy Anderson while he stands at fine
Continue readingLiz Hurley, Pippa Middleton and “the Barbie Army”
< 1 minute readWe’d be interested to know what our female readers make of Viagogo’s latest press release, entitled: ‘Make way for the Barbie Army’. Apparently, they have seen a 240 per cent increase in females purchasing cricket tickets. Why might this be? “Possibly inspired by Liz Hurley’s ‘passion’ for the game and
Continue readingThis has to be the last Matthew Hayden post
< 1 minute readIn 2006, we started writing about how Matthew Hayden spoke bollocks. At that point, his batting drew most people’s attention and it hadn’t been widely acknowledged that the man was sucking all meaning out of words and then piling them together arbitrarily. Now everyone has noticed. Even Michael Atherton’s slagging
Continue readingPosh Strauss and the Yorkshire stereotype in cricket
< 1 minute readWe did two things wrong in this piece for Cricinfo. We depicted Andrew Strauss as a socially disconnected toff, which is unfair and also something of a cliché. There are two dissatisfied Yorkshiremen in it and having once lived in God’s own county, we hate cricket’s Yorkshire stereotype and fear
Continue readingEngland should copy Australia
< 1 minute readThat’s the premise of this piece that we wrote for Cricinfo. It’s funny because Australia are really, really bad at cricket while England are amazing, so it’s ridiculous that the latter would ape the former. We thought we’d state that explicitly in case you weren’t aware of those facts and
Continue readingEngland v Sri Lanka Twenty20, Bristol | match report
< 1 minute readD Charlton writes: It was my brother (G Charlton)’s stag do. We went to Bristol and watched the Twenty20. As is customary, he dressed as a morph. And he made some friends. By the end of England’s innings, the bloke at the back had said: “You’re allowed peanuts in, Orange,
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