2 minute readYou may have thought that we’d forgotten about our weekly County Championship round-up, what with there having been a Test match and all. However, you didn’t count on the nagging feeling of guilt that jolted our memory. In truth, our subsconscious is largely just a complex web woven from different
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2013 County Championship – chapter five
2 minute readYou should probably stop paying attention to the section at the end of these posts where we tell you what’s happening in the coming week. Last week we said the top four teams were all playing in matches starting on Wednesday. Turns out only one match started that day and
Continue readingAdil Rashid and poor growing conditions
2 minute readBeing a young leg-spinner involves being told you’re amazing when you’re not. When you get a bit older and you seem a little less exciting, people tell you that you’re rubbish when you’re not. If you can bat as well, the extra novelty magnifies that first bit and also the
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< 1 minute readTwo teams are on the same number of points in third place. We presume it’s the alphabet which decides how they are presented, in which case Warwickshire have really struck lucky with it being Yorkshire who are matching them. If they separate teams on the same points through some other
Continue readingRounded flat cap cricket
2 minute readIf you like certainty and clarity, two-innings cricket is not for you. The format presents you with details and only backs this up with context once the match has finished. Half the joy is in dissecting goings-on in order to try and shape that context in your mind’s eye as
Continue readingThe best thing about Chesney Hughes’ 270 not out for Derbyshire
< 1 minute readThe best thing about Chesney Hughes’ 270 is that it brings some smashing first names to prominence. A Chesney is always worth celebrating, but it gets better than that. Chesney Hughes is from Anguilla. He was advised to come to England by a man with one of the finest names
Continue reading2013 County Championship – chapter three
2 minute readThere was a fair bit of noteworthy action in the County Championship this week. The good news for us is that we don’t have to write about much of it because it didn’t particularly affect the top of the table. The good news for you is that we therefore won’t
Continue reading2013 County Championship – chapter two
< 1 minute readThe County Championship table is slightly canted by the fact that five teams didn’t play this week. It’s week two. It was time to make things a little more opaque for anyone trying to follow the competition. 1st – Middlesex Middlesex stay top after beating Derbyshire. There were four wickets
Continue readingInternational cricketers in county cricket
2 minute readInternational cricket matches are now so frequent that you can forget that those involved are in any way exceptional. We like the early part of the season because it generally provides a reminder. In general, we don’t like reminders. We like to leave things indefinitely. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT
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2 minute readOur approach to covering the County Championship has always been to strip away all of the fat and flesh and a fair proportion of the bones to leave something manageable. What you do with what’s left is up for debate. Give it to the dog, maybe. Our official editorial stance
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