2 minute readPrice writes: After driving down to Bristol on the Friday night, drinking a skin-full of Guinness, getting four hours sleep and suffering a packed train to Cardiff, we took our seats high up in the grandstand. The raging hangover subsided (through the means of hair of the dog) and we
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Middlesex v Sussex Twenty20 match report
2 minute readSam writes: The ICC Twenty20 Bonanza (or whatever it was called) caught the imagination of the entire world, but more importantly of my girlfriend who suddenly expressed an interest in attending a live match. So off we went to Lord’s on a humid Sunday afternoon for her first proper cricket
Continue readingVarious beasts being conspicuously indifferent to cricket
2 minute readSW writes: Here are the animals of the SW household demonstrating considerable indifference to key moments of the T20 World Cup. First up there is Jasper (aka Fatty McFat). He is technically the neighbour’s cat, but they don’t feed him and call him Nike so he has rejected this emasculating
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2 minute readSomewhat surprisingly, Hippity the Green Bunny writes: I knew that daddy had planned a trip to Lord’s today with one of his friends from work, Uncail Marcas, so I devised a cunning plan. I’d jump into daddy’s picnic bag while he wasn’t looking and cadge a ride to HQ. I
Continue readingGetting cricket scores on your phone and then finding a pub with it
< 1 minute readAs we said earlier in the week, we’re sick to death of receiving press releases at the moment, so we were delighted to receive a brief match report from Simon that in no way promotes anything – least of all Snaptu’s free Cricinfo application for mobile phones. “As I sat
Continue readingMiddlesex v Glamorgan match report
< 1 minute readGed writes: My guest for the day was Charley “The Gent” Malloy. My last visit of 2008 saw Charley walk off with my tie. When I reported the loss to my mum, she informed me that the correct etiquette in such circumstances would be for me to inform Charley that
Continue readingTwo cricket bats in unusually horrifying places
< 1 minute readNonononono. This is not happening. This is NOT happening. This is NOT… HAPPENING. Remember the worst picture of all time? Now this is the worst picture of all time: It was sent in by Suave, who says: “Attached is a photo of cricket bats in unusual places. It has two
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< 1 minute readOh shit, oh shit. Oh no, oh no, oh no. This is quite simply the worst picture of all time. We are properly terrified of dead animals. We can’t stress this enough. Show us a grizzly bear and we’ll be scared. Show us a dead grizzly bear and we will
Continue readingIPL match report/ongoing feud with the ECB
3 minute readBert of ‘sports administration is like looking after your neighbour’s cat‘ fame writes: Last year I booked to go to see the IPL in India. Since then, I’ve not really taken much notice of the news. My travel agent – Clarke’s 20/20 Adventures – assured me that everything was tickety-boo,
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2 minute readPrice writes: Whilst on a recent jaunt to Australia to a wedding that didn’t happen, I decided to go watch some kind of Australian cricket, which was fraught with difficulty: Attempt 1 Having researched that there was cricket on my first day in Perth, I duly jetlagged my way through
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