< 1 minute readIt’s not the English cricket season and it’s not yet the Ashes. People aren’t interested in cricket at this time of year, but that’s why we started this site; for the days when the newspapers don’t feature a single cricket article. The good news is we’ll be ticking over as
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Evil Monty Panesar improves his bowling figures
< 1 minute readNo, Monty! Say it hasn’t come to this. In a desperate bid to advance his case for England inclusion, Monty Panesar has been reduced to tampering with scoreboards. 2-20 sounds so much better than 2-120.
Continue readingSurrey v Glamorgan CB40 match report
2 minute readWickman from Royal Cricket writes: My sister in law and I are Surrey members so we decided to go to a 40 over game. I’ve only become a member this year, but I haven’t been organised enough to get to the Oval. So I was pretty excited about getting into
Continue readingEngland v Pakistan 1st Test match report
2 minute readBert writes: Cricket offers so much more than any other sporting experience. Very often it poses a series of moral and philosophical questions worthy of any Radio 4 mid-afternoon programme. There’s the “how white can white possibly get?” type question, or the “is darkness a thing in itself, the absence
Continue readingInternational Cricket 2010 game review | PS3, Xbox 360
3 minute readInternational Cricket 2010 is a rubbish name, but it’s a great game. Batting The batting in Ashes Cricket 2009, the last version of this game, was excellent. It’s now slightly better with greater control of each shot’s power. If you don’t try and knock the leather off the ball, you’ve
Continue reading150% SERIES report
3 minute readDandy Dan writes: Eager to avenge his defeat in last summer’s Test, Ben had spent some of the considerable amount of time that he had on his hands in preparing slightly more professional equipment than we had at our disposal last year. Unfortunately, given that he’d been away from Blighty
Continue readingReceiving money for underperformance
2 minute readA man with a pencil moustache approaches King Cricket. Man: Hellooooo. KC: Er, hello? Man: How are you doing this fine day? KC: I’m fine. Sorry, do I know you? Man: No, you don’t know me. But perhaps you should. The man raises an eyebrow and looks King Cricket up
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< 1 minute readWhat more can you say?
Continue readingNot a Surrey v Middlesex match report by any stretch
2 minute readOkay, we know we say not to mention the cricket in your match reports, but can there at least be some cricket that you avoid mentioning from now on? We’re including this one because it’s largely about food and because it contains some happy news and some good advice. Try
Continue readingTwenty20 Finals Day 2010 match reports
2 minute readApologies to all of you in the match report queue, but we’ve for once decided to publish a report at roughly the right time. If you’re worried that we’ve changed, we’d like to emphasise that this step has been taken purely because we can’t be arsed writing anything today. Mel
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