3 minute readGed Ladd writes: Bunty is a big cheese in Jagdalpur – he and our guide Jolly’s family have just opened this new Bastar Jungle Resort and we were their first English guests. Soon chat turned to cricket. “Oh you like cricket”, said Bunty. “You must visit my hotel in town
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Failure to repeat until funny
< 1 minute readFrom the comments on our latest Cricinfo article: “Ok, the sole joke of the article was silence, and quite frankly it needed at least a bit more to take it anywhere. Page 2 has definitely seen much better.” It’s a dark day. We’re going to have to redouble our efforts.
Continue readingSome horror involving Alec Stewart
< 1 minute readExplanation: “Discretionary wealth managers JM Finn & Co have appointed legendary former England wicket keeper Alec Stewart as their brand ambassador.” And another tiny piece of all of us dies.
Continue readingKing Cricket wields a staggering degree of influence
< 1 minute readWe’ve an announcement to make. Remember how we got unjustifiably worked up about the shape of the K in the middle of the new logo for The Cricketer? Well, we’ve just had word from their offices and it seems that they’ve been moved to carry out AN OFFICIAL REVIEW. That’s
Continue readingLal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad match preview
2 minute readGed writes: The weather is glorious and the people are extremely friendly. They have named a bazaar after my pseudonym – Lad Bazaar is the place in Hyderabad for bangles and boy is it sparkly. Our guide reluctantly takes us to the Lal Bahadur stadium, explaining that the big matches
Continue readingRob Key, Bono and ‘dot ball’ signs
< 1 minute readThis is the best article we’ve ever written in which a girl faints at the thought of seeing Lancashire chief executive, Jim Cumbes. It is also the best article we’ve written in which Beyoncé tries to associate herself with Rob Key in order to further her career. Read dreaming in
Continue readingThe Cricketer website
< 1 minute readAs a colossal nerd whose interests include cricket and the internet, we’re interested to know what you think about the newly launched The Cricketer website. It’s the bastard offspring of The Wisden Cricketer and Test Match Extra. The latter you might not have heard of because it looked pretty hideous
Continue readingOne-day internationals don’t matter
2 minute readThe World Cup matters – let’s clarify that first of all – but other one-day international (ODI) series don’t. That is a new, official King Cricket editorial stance. Why ODIs don’t matter Between squad rotation, experimentation, dead rubbers and lack of interest from fans and players, we no longer see
Continue readingGood news everybody…
< 1 minute readWe’re being insulted on Cricinfo again. Qasim has branded our latest piece “a staggeringly unfunny article”. You’ve got to love an article that’s so lacking in humour that not only are readers unmoved by it, they are actually blown away by the unfunniness. We meant to ask that this piece
Continue readingCover drive | Batting lessons
< 1 minute readAll save the clearest technician must rein themself in when essaying a cover drive, lest they founder betwixt active and passive. Wise words and worth remembering when attemping this shot for this is almost entirely wrong. Should a delivery pitch six inches short of overfull and a similar distance wide
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