2 minute readYou may or may not remember the Lord’s Throdkin. If you do, you will be very excited to hear that there has been a development… Ged writes: Lancastrian nephew-in-law Escamillo Escapillo is partial to my Lord’s Throdkin cookies. I was to spend the first of three days at Lord’s watching
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Sorry about this but we’re going to report the latest rumours about The Hundred
2 minute readThat joke isn’t funny any more. You know the one. The one where you make up an outlandish format detail about The Hundred in an effort to satirise the ECB. The problem is that while The Hundred seems like rich source material, it really isn’t. The joke suggestions are too
Continue readingEssex v West Indies indoctrination of a young mind match report
2 minute readDan writes: My seven year old son looks a demon with the bat in his hands in the back garden, and he actually pays attention when the cricket’s on the TV. He seems to reserve special interest for the Test matches, which is very pleasing. So this summer we signed
Continue readingA cricket book in the Vintage Mobile Cinema
< 1 minute readGed writes: I flew up to Edinburgh for a bit of Fringe, taking with me only The Kings Of Summer by Duncan Hamilton and a collapsible brolly. Amongst other things, we visited the Vintage Mobile Cinema, which was interesting and fun. I neglected to actually photograph the book in the
Continue readingLeo being conspicuously indifferent to tickets to Ireland’s first men’s Test match
< 1 minute readChuck says that Leo’s indifferent to everything except food. The tickets were used for this match. If you’ve got a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket, send it to king@kingcricket.co.uk.
Continue readingAfghanistan haven’t scored too many runs, but that’s not really the point at this stage, is it?
< 1 minute readRemember Out of the Ashes? It’s a documentary about Afghanistan’s journey “from war to the World Cup”. We reviewed it here and thought it was rather wonderful. It strikes us that it could do with an update because Afghanistan are a Test team now. This is a highly astonishing state
Continue readingWhat’s it been like watching Ireland’s first Test, against Pakistan at Malahide?
3 minute readChuck writes: With my Aged Parent heading towards 83 not out this summer (a superb innings), I decided it was time to introduce him to the pleasures of Test cricket by bringing him to his, and Ireland’s, and indeed my first men’s Test match, against Pakistan in Malahide. Well, day
Continue readingClive being conspicuously indifferent to Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s arrival and departure
< 1 minute readGed sent us a photo of Clive showing extreme indifference to the arrival of Shivnarine Chanderpaul at the crease. This was during this season’s Essex match, so we asked Ged whether there were any signs of life in response to Shiv’s almost immediate departure. Ged said: “Very similar lack of
Continue readingWe’re writing Wisden Cricket Weekly and it’s going to be very good indeed (even from an unbiased point of view)
2 minute readYou may or may not know that once upon a time we wrote a satirical weekly newsletter for a cricket magazine. It was fully excellent and almost everyone said so. Then the magazine’s new owners gave us the boot. At this point, we started doing almost exactly the same thing
Continue readingDefine ‘dibbly-dobbly medium pace’
< 1 minute readWe all feel that we know it when we see it, but what exactly is dibbly-dobbly medium pace? Is it just non-spin bowling of a certain velocity (less than 75mph, say)? Or is it something more specific than that. When we asked people to identify the greatest dibbly-dobbly medium-pace bowler
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