2 minute readOver the years, we’ve often asked ourself: ‘Could Rob Key actually be any more awesome?’ Always the answer has been the same: ‘Not really. Only if he managed to clean bowl Northamptonshire’s David Willey.’ Finally, after years of waiting, David Willey actually started playing first-class cricket this season. Kent faced
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County cricketers to watch in 2009
< 1 minute readWhat county cricketers are worth watching in 2009? These ones: Liam Plunkett Mark Davies Steve Davies Adil Rashid Tim Bresnan Will Smith Simon Jones Paul Horton You can watch other cricketers bat and bowl if you want, but you’d be far better off watching Mark Davies do his rehab or
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< 1 minute readNottinghamshire v Worcestershire. It’s Chris Read v Steve Davies in a battle for third or fourth place in the England wicketkeeping hierarchy. Game on! Steve Davies clearly said to himself: ‘Whatever Chris Read can do, I can go one better.’ Fortunately for Steve Davies, Chris Read hit 125, so ‘one
Continue readingWho is Fake IPL Player?
< 1 minute readAre you interested in who Fake IPL Player is? You can probably work it out if you’ve got the time and inclination. We have neither. We have a built-in defence mechanism against mass enthusiasm. We detest all forms of enthusiasm and the greater the number of people interested in something,
Continue readingShahid Afridi represents Pakistan
< 1 minute readShahid Afridi embodies the reasons why cricket needs Pakistan. Here’s a man who’s most famous for his ludicrously single-minded determination to hit every balll he faces into the moon, as if it’s somehow wronged him with its offensive nocturnal luminescence. That’s Shahid Afridi’s thing. That’s what he does. Yet he’s
Continue readingMark Cosgrove flobs back into county cricket
< 1 minute readSometimes it’s okay to make use of the verb ‘to flob’. This usage is entirely justified. While the world trains its gaze on Fake IPL Player or the IPL itself – or Ian Bell or Michael Vaughan or Philip Hughes – while the world trains its gaze on those events,
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< 1 minute readKolkata Knight Riders have banned laptops apparently, so Fake IPL Player is having to update via SMS. As a result of this, the blog has become a nightmarish quagmire of abbreviations and acronyms – in short, just the sort of site we can’t bear to read. There’s no excuse. We
Continue readingThe Fake IPL Player blog writer
< 1 minute readThe Fake IPL Player blog is the focus of some attention at the minute. Is it a fake IPL player or is it actually a real IPL player dishing the dirt on his Kolkata Knight Riders team mates? The writer seems to know a bit about what’s going on and
Continue readingAndrew Strauss loses the Ashes
< 1 minute readWhy, Andrew? Why? Why do you say these things? Have you never watched a film? You’ve just turned yourself into the character who overlooks a minor detail in the first scene, unaware of the DIRE CONSEQUENCES your seemingly minor oversight will have. Strauss was speaking about how Australia’s Phillip Hughes
Continue readingAndrew Flintoff v Kevin Pietersen in the IPL
< 1 minute readThey hate each other. They just outright loathe each other. Everyone knows they never speak to each other EVER. Both players have been just busting for a chance to show that they’re the one that’s worth more millions than the other. It’s about status. It’s about money. It’s about who’s
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