< 1 minute readThe Tour de France starts on Saturday. We’ll be writing about it daily over at our cycling site. We’re going to try and do one piece after each stage, which should be nice and manageable for busy, successful individuals like yourselves. This week’s preview week, so if you’re remotely interested,
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Nottinghamshire v Middlesex at Trent Bridge match report
3 minute readGed writes: Daisy and I were planning to go to Malawi this April, but for reasons too complex and dull to explain, we decided to defer our African adventure until the autumn. Thus we had booked some time off work without firm plans. We decided on a spring walking holiday
Continue readingCould everyone please just calm down a bit
< 1 minute readThere’s too much emotion in cricket these days. We need to get back to a world where wickets are celebrated with a handshake, team spirit is expressed with a warm handshake and contempt for the opposition is conveyed via a firm handshake. We’ve written about how everyone’s far too het
Continue readingWhat’s the best way to follow a Test match?
< 1 minute readArmpits of Botham! It’s a Test match tomorrow! How do you prefer to follow a Test? A lazy assumption is that live TV coverage presents the best option, but we’re increasingly questioning that. When a match is tight and it’s the closing overs, it’s hard to beat – but those
Continue readingA shameless advertisement for our cycling site
< 1 minute readShut up. We don’t do it often. For the next three weeks (crashes permitting), Bradley Wiggins will be attempting to win the Giro d’Italia, the second-biggest race in cycling. You can follow his progress over at our other site. Like cricket, the Giro isn’t on ‘normal telly’ – not even
Continue readingYou people seem to like this sort of thing
< 1 minute readIt’s an image featuring 50 cryptic clues to cricketing terms. It’s called ‘Whatzat!’ The ECB have commissioned it and apparently there are international and county tickets to be won. We’re crap at this sort of thing. It took us quite some time to work out why bowler hats featured so
Continue readingIPL teams’ official Twitter accounts
< 1 minute readWe don’t normally link to our Cricinfo Twitter round-up because, you know, we can’t really be bothered. However, we thought we’d make the effort this week because the subject matter might be slightly more of interest to you. As you know, we’re ‘down’ with all the modern trends (it’s presumably
Continue readingIndia v England match report from Kochi
2 minute readMum writes: After an excellent breakfast, KC’s dad and I took a ferry to the mainland where we shared a tuk-tuk with an English couple also bound for the match. Security was tight and I had to take a photo to prove my camera was a camera. It was 45
Continue readingThe best players for a fantasy IPL team
< 1 minute readWe selected a fantasy IPL team on Cricinfo and were about to set up a league so that people could compete against us when we suddenly thought: ‘No, wait, this is bollocks.’ Do you want to know who the best players are for a Cricinfo fantasy IPL team? It’s whoever
Continue readingTwo cats being indifferent to King Cricket
< 1 minute readBradders writes: “Please see evidence of the indifference shown by my two cats (Jaffa on left, Seamus the Celtic Warrior on right) to cricket, but also more specifically your website. “I left it on for a bit and for a while nothing happened. However, eventually Jaffa (through some careful standing
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