< 1 minute readIt’s our latest piece for Cricinfo. Here’s what the critics are saying about it: “Ultimate đ ROFL… Next in line is Misbah?” – The Sunday Times Now, if you’ll excuse us, we appear to have one million things to write today and very few hours in which to do it.
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England v Sri Lanka at Lordâs, day two match report
3 minute readGed writes âIâve been a complete idiot,â said Big Al DeLarge when he phoned me on the Monday before the Test match. âI wrote the date down in the diary but not on the wall chart. My assistant has booked a holiday and I simply cannot take that day off
Continue readingIf you could invite three cricketers to the pub on a Tuesday night…
< 1 minute readWho would they be? And before you ask, yes of course Fantasy Tuesday Night in the Pub is a thing. It’s like ‘who would you invite to your dream dinner party?’ – only why do we have to have a dinner party? Why can’t we just go to the pub
Continue readingIs Kevin Pietersen’s book worth buying?
2 minute readWe didn’t get a review copy of KP: The Autobiography. Apparently it was already getting enough attention without a review appearing here in about six months’ time. We wonder whether we need to read it. The two-page email from Rahul Dravid about how to play spin that features within it
Continue readingMop-up of the season
< 1 minute readEveryone does end-of-season awards, but only ours are called The Horseys. Rest assured that more time was spent writing the column than coming up with the name. If there was one bit that didn’t get finished, it was the Every Dog Has Its Day Award. We didn’t want to call
Continue readingMop-up of the day – video killed the internet star
2 minute readAnyone know how to stop Cricinfo videos from automatically playing? Action! In our line of work, we read an awful lot of cricket stories. This sometimes involves opening tens of tabs at a time and we then have to play ‘hunt the video’ when we hear that one or more
Continue readingSam’s wedding cricket match report
4 minute readSam writes: They say organising a wedding is one of the most stressful things in life. Whoever they are, they have obviously never tried to stage a cricket match the following day. Having completed the marital formalities and danced Saturday night into Sunday morning, friends and family gathered at my
Continue readingThe tallest order
< 1 minute readLancashire started their must-win-by-a-mile match quite well, but James Harris and Ravi Patel secured a batting bonus point for Middlesex which means we now have a clearer idea of exactly what each team needs to do to survive. Lancashire need to either score 350, or declare with fewer than eight
Continue readingThe worst first-class county cricket team
< 1 minute readWe rarely feel moved by events in the second division, but it’s hard not to feel a twinge of excitement at the prospect of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire playing out a draw next season to extend their respective winless streaks. We’ve reported on both of these clubs in our latest Shire
Continue readingNever call someone a Kolpak
< 1 minute readBad news for Slovakian handball goalkeeper, Maros Kolpak, whose name has apparently morphed into a racist insult. Yorkshire’s Andrew Gale has been charged with a level three offence for firing the word at Lancashire’s Ashwell Prince. A level three offence involves “using language or gestures that offends race, religion, colour,
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