< 1 minute readNonononono. This is not happening. This is NOT happening. This is NOT… HAPPENING. Remember the worst picture of all time? Now this is the worst picture of all time: It was sent in by Suave, who says: “Attached is a photo of cricket bats in unusual places. It has two
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Nice cricket T-shirts
< 1 minute readTake a look at our current range of cricket T-shirts Football supporters love wearing their team’s shirt to show their allegiance. The same thing’s never really happened with cricket shirts. This is largely because the majority of one-day shirts look like football shirts and cricket supporters don’t generally want to
Continue readingEoin Morgan does something mental with his cricket bat
< 1 minute readWe saw this plastered across Jrod’s Balls yesterday. It’s Eoin Morgan doing something quite ridiculous in the name of batting. It’s pretty impressive, but is he really that good? He can play that shot well enough in those circumstances, but how well would he bat with his upper arms tied
Continue readingA cricket bat in an unusually HORRIFYING place
< 1 minute readOh shit, oh shit. Oh no, oh no, oh no. This is quite simply the worst picture of all time. We are properly terrified of dead animals. We can’t stress this enough. Show us a grizzly bear and we’ll be scared. Show us a dead grizzly bear and we will
Continue readingIPL match report/ongoing feud with the ECB
3 minute readBert of ‘sports administration is like looking after your neighbour’s cat‘ fame writes: Last year I booked to go to see the IPL in India. Since then, I’ve not really taken much notice of the news. My travel agent – Clarke’s 20/20 Adventures – assured me that everything was tickety-boo,
Continue readingCricket headlines with puns in them
< 1 minute readThere’s a brilliant pun-based board game from the Eighties called You Must Be Joking which must be adored by cricket headline writers. Those guys just can’t let a pun pass them by. We describe that game as ‘brilliant’, but actually it was anything but. The full title was You Must
Continue readingBat For The Draw (Cricket Top Trumps)
< 1 minute readRemember Top Trumps? Course you do. Picking a category and hoping that the number on your card’s higher than the number on your opponent’s card. What could be more thrilling? We’ve got cricket Top Trumps on the site now. Repetitive and totally unsociable – it’s the perfect King Cricket game.
Continue readingAustralian cricket match report
2 minute readPrice writes: Whilst on a recent jaunt to Australia to a wedding that didn’t happen, I decided to go watch some kind of Australian cricket, which was fraught with difficulty: Attempt 1 Having researched that there was cricket on my first day in Perth, I duly jetlagged my way through
Continue readingA cricket ball in an unusual place
< 1 minute readGed writes: “You might fancy the attached picture of Hippity (one of Middlesex’s most ardent fans and a well-known correspondent on Middlesex Till We Die) watching cricket while sitting on the bed with his lucky ball. “Given the particular controller he is using, he is clearly watching Ceefax, which is
Continue readingHarold being conspicuously indifferent to the legacy of Michael Vaughan
< 1 minute readEva writes: “This is my cat Harold. Here he is, nonchalantly enjoying a meal. (Don’t question that. Cats can be nonchalant. No-one’s ever questioned a cat’s ability to display indifference.) “In doing this, he made a choice. He chose to ignore the legacy of Michael Vaughan. “He’s actually almost sitting
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