< 1 minute read We support Lancashire. You might be wondering how we feel about this. If there’s such a thing as a positive ‘meh’ – then that. He did win the County Championship with Sussex after all. He does have a good track record. Peter Moores’ has Maxonian origins, so this is a
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Which England batsman should get dropped
< 1 minute read Alastair Cook Why Because he looks like the kind of person who eats sandwiches with a knife and fork. Why not Because Rob Key’s on the wrong continent. Ian Bell Why Because if international cricket were a cartoon where everyone were an animal, Ian Bell would be the excitable squirrel
Continue readingAndrew Flintoff’s advice for his team mates
< 1 minute read “The spirit’s been good but maybe we need to draw on each other a little bit more.” We used to draw on Chris during maths. At first we pretended to draw on the back of his neck. When he caught on that we were only pretending, we actually drew on
Continue readingEngland 51 all out
< 1 minute read It was put to Alastair Cook that after Adelaide in 2006 and 81 all out in Galle in 2007, England’s batting was having the odd disaster. “If it happens again, then things have to change. But those are three isolated incidents over three years, so it is not as though
Continue readingKevin Pietersen out in the nineties
2 minute read In the first Test, Kevin Pietersen was again dismissed in the nineties going for a big shot to reach his hundred. He did the same against South Africa over the summer. There are a number of people (Nasser Hussain’s one) who are angry at Pietersen for this. They say he
Continue readingJerome Taylor bowls fast, full and straight
< 1 minute read Jerome Taylor routed a batting side. You have to like someone who does that, even if they do it against your team. Given a choice between England ‘bowling with discipline’ again or Jerome Taylor taking 5-11 again, we’ll go with Taylor’s display thank you very much. Taylor’s not ludicrously fast,
Continue readingTake the positives out of that
< 1 minute read “Possibly we didn’t play Jerome Taylor in the right sort of way.” Andrew Strauss The bat-on-ball to ball-on-stump ratio would tend to indicate a flaw in your collective approach, yes. England love to take the positives and they did that here. Unfortunately, they took all the positives from their second
Continue readingIan Botham quote
< 1 minute read “I don’t think it’s going to go away, the technology. I really don’t.” Now we’re a massive, massive fan of primitive flint tools. We’d welcome a return to their chiselled, sedimentary perfection more willingly than anyone. But we’re still inclined to agree with Sir Ian on this one. The technology
Continue readingJerk chicken during England’s tour of the West Indies
< 1 minute read We just popped into our local Co-op. Two of the staff were looking at a new takeaway menu. One said: “It sounds nice, that chicken and chips.” We’ve got that menu. It waxes lyrical. It says: ‘One portion of chicken and chips.’ Mmm. That does sound nice. If we can
Continue readingHate Ian Bell?
< 1 minute read A lot of people hate Ian Bell – England supporters mostly. Given a choice between his playing crap and getting dropped or his playing well and averaging 55, a lot of people would choose the first option. We’d choose the second. For all his flaws, 26 year-olds who can average
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