2 minute readSam writes: My baby was due to enter the world on February 18th, just a few days into the tournament. Not ideal timing, but at least he wasn’t interrupting The Ashes. In the end, he was late. Five days after the scheduled start of his innings, at risk of being
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Like Stuart Broad… but different
2 minute readIf wealthy, middle-aged American women’s faces teach us anything, it is that people do not go under the knife and then return much as they ever were. Don’t seam bowlers usually have to prove themselves again after surgery? Stuart Broad had a knee problem. It wasn’t anything too debilitating. It
Continue readingMiddlesex v Durham at Lord’s – match report
3 minute readGed writes: Late season, I always try to take in a day of county cricket with my old friend, Charley “The Gent” Malloy. It helps us both to prepare for the inevitable winter withdrawal symptoms to come. The cricket season starts earlier and ends later each year, yet it seems
Continue readingMiddlesex v Warwickshire at Lord’s – match report
2 minute readGed writes: As the end of the season approached, it dawned on me that the pile of reading I had hoped to take with me to Lord’s and read on sunny days was mostly still waiting to be read. Not that there had been a shortage of sunshine in the
Continue readingMop-up of the day – warm-ups, schmarm ups
< 1 minute readAustralia obliterated India, England battered the Windies and all for nought. World Cup pressure is not yet here and in fact probably won’t be here until the 18th of March when the quarter finals finally get underway. Even so, these were striking results. England dismissed the Windies for 122 and
Continue readingThe other 10 World Cup cricketers to watch
2 minute readWe could do the same Kohli, de Villiers, Johnson list as everyone else or we could pick out 10 players who you’ll actually have to make some effort to watch. So, in no particular order… Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan 40 years old and ostensibly a plodder, Misbah recently matched Viv Richards’ record
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3 minute readBert writes: Some years ago, one of this site’s regular correspondents set what I imagine he thought would be an all-time altitude record for match reporting. He claimed that the match was taking place at an altitude (and I quote) of 3,500m. Now there is something rather strange about this,
Continue readingYorkshire v Middlesex – Scarborough match report
2 minute readBananarama Monkey-Face writes: I’m originally from Pickering, so I always get very excited when I come up to North Yorkshire with Mum, Dad and brother Hippity. All the more exciting this time, because Mum and Dad had arranged, as part of their trip, to go to t’cricket at Scarborough for
Continue readingMop-up of Christmas
3 minute readIt sounds like a sherry-related incident, but it’s really just a faintly festive version of our Mop-up of the Day not-quite-sure-what-to-write-about-today feature. Boxing Day Eve Eve The most important of the coming days is of course Boxing Day. Few people know that Boxing Day was actually named after the Boxing
Continue readingMop-up of the day – tails and knees
2 minute readFirst up, tail-enders. They’re ace, but they’re a dying breed. Blame professionalism. Now we love lower-order shenanigans as much as the next person, but the key word there is ‘shenanigans’. A textbook forward defensive stroke is not a shenanigan. These are shenanigans. A tail-end innings should bring all the fun
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