2 minute read We write: After several days of maft, day three of the second Test between England and Bangladesh began with wet sunlight. It dried up mid-morning and upon arriving at Old Trafford just after 1pm, we were delighted to see that there was a Wainwright Cask Ale Tent. We paid it
Continue reading< 1 minute read What do you make of The Point? We think it looks like an old-fashioned fan heater – only red. A friend of ours thinks it looks like someone’s knocked over a toaster – only red. It’s not bad. Some cricket folk are getting a bit carried away with what it
Continue reading< 1 minute read At 13.22pm, we received word that the crowd had begun construction of the first beer snake. Due to a reduction in staff, production is slow, but overtime may be on offer for those willing to work late.
Continue reading< 1 minute read We know you don’t like it when we don’t have an opinion on something. It’s not that we’re fence-sitting, it’s that in reality we don’t have all that many opinions. We wander through life indecisive and directionless and we’ve done that since before we went to school. Opinions occasionally find
Continue reading< 1 minute read “I guess we speak pretty loosely, don’t we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that – and we are, but it’s not with both eyes. We’ve got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we’re the best
Continue reading< 1 minute read With England winning the World Twenty20 at about the time it went live, we forgot to point out this article we did for Cricinfo about momentum. We did two pieces for Cricinfo around that time. One we were quite proud of; the other we weren’t really. Having just read the
Continue reading2 minute read Dandy Dan wanted to include whispering to Amjad Khan that his was one of the worst debut performances for England that he’d seen, but felt that was far too much to do with the cricket. Instead, he writes: The day started with a feeling of the unknown. I’d invited a
Continue reading< 1 minute read If there’s one thing we like, it’s people who fall over a lot. With that in mind, we’re calling for Steven Finn to be inked into the England Test team for the forseeable future. We already knew that Finn was an accurate bowler from what we saw in Bangladesh, but
Continue reading2 minute read As a bowler, it’s hard to see what Tim Bresnan offers that no-one else can. He’s a bit of a poor man’s Jimmy Anderson: a fractionally slower, slightly less sophisticated swing bowler who’s not quite as fit as the Burnley Express. Set against that, he was England’s best bowler in
Continue reading< 1 minute read Tamim Iqbal has passed 50 in nine of his last 11 Test innings. Considering how he tends to start his innings – hacking away at every ball like he’s a Thracian gladiator de-limbing adversaries – that’s pretty remarkable. Virender Sehwag is probably a role model, but with Sehwag, you rarely
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