2 minute read Sorry about this morning’s aberration where we actually contributed something to the website. David “Pappus’ Plane” Barry’s here to redress the balance with a match report: This was my first experience of cricket in England: the opening day of the 2008 County Championship. One notable difference from Australia was clear
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Kent v Nottinghamshire County Championship match report
2 minute read With a bonus Kent v Essex in the Friends Provident Trophy match report thrown in ABSOLUTELY FREE. This continues this week’s theme of our not really writing anything. How long can we keep it up? Lemon Bella writes: Myself and Indian Skimmer saw our first matches of the season this
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2 minute read If you attend a cricket match this season, please send us a match report. Our submission guidelines are ever-so-straightforward: on no account mention the actual cricket. Miriam opens the season’s reporting: I went to this match after church (yes, how very English of me). Having heard so much about him,
Continue readingLiam Plunkett wrestles with his conscience
< 1 minute read Only his angelic side and his demonic side are BOTH cyclopic yellow bears. “Go and buy some honey, Liam.” “Don’t listen to him! Go and steal some honey.”
Continue readingNimbus being conspicuously indifferent to all manner of cricketing things
< 1 minute read Miriam writes: “I give you: my sister’s new cat, Nimbus. “We showed her your feature in The Wisden Cricketer, but, as you can see, she simply could not be bothered and she made her feelings perfectly clear. “She was also not at all tempted by The Wisden Cricketer cover stories.
Continue readingStrauss being conspicuously indifferent to Strauss’s selection ahead of Owais Shah for England’s final warm-up match before the first Test against New Zealand
< 1 minute read A catchy title, we think you’ll all agree. It’s been a while since we received a picture of an animal being conspicuously indifferent to cricket – TOO LONG, in fact. There are a whole host of animals who have not yet expressed their indifference to this great game. We’ve never
Continue readingMatthew Hoggard and Younis Khan play “spot the statistics nerd”
< 1 minute read ‘Spot the statistics nerd’ isn’t a game you should play in a cricket ground when it’s anything other than completely empty. It’s no challenge at all. A game of ‘spot the fancy dress drunk’ was abandoned later that same day.
Continue readingEngland adopt subtle form of mental disintegration
< 1 minute read So-called mental disintegration can take many forms. You might play on a batsman’s confidence or you might try and aggravate him into losing his cool. In this picture, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell and Ryan Sidebottom have teamed up in an effort to make Ross Taylor jealous. Ross Taylor considers himself
Continue readingSomerset adopt undersized helmets made out of fruit
< 1 minute read Bang it in short.
Continue readingAsk Stuart MacGill if he’ll give us the ball back
< 1 minute read Go on, do it… No, you ask… We don’t think he’s going to let us have it back.
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