Posted by Okay, let’s do this. Let’s write a 200-word article in which we somehow find a new way of emphasising how wonderful the third Test match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka was for readers who already know precisely how wonderful it was and who probably followed the match much more closely than we did anyway.
We’ll also shoe-horn in a hilarious joke at our own expense which somehow makes a wider point about cricket with additional implications for wider society. We’ll do this off the top of our head during a break at work while trying to block out the world’s worst radio station. The first comment will then relate to why we haven’t yet covered some earth-shattering news which one of Cricinfo’s billion writers has broken during a live transcription of a Mashrafe Mortaza press conference which was supposed to be about the chances of Khulna Division in next year’s whatever-the-hell-Bangladesh’s-first-class-competition-is-called. The resultant masterpiece – which will obviously be nothing of the sort – will then sit in prime position on a website of almost no significance for a matter of hours before the moron of a writer feels he needs to add something ‘fresh’, thus pushing the article further down the page, where it will never again be seen by a human.
Alternatively, we could have some sort of tetchy meltdown and one of you can point out that we’ve actually written 236 words, plus a rubbish headline.
Yes we ought to pay attention to cricket-board skullduggery but in the end, it’s all about Test matches, innit.
Oof. That was a hefty run rate Pakistan scored at.
It’s an outrage. While everyone is worrying about ECB, BCCI, and CA monopolising the money and power – Pakistan are trying to keep all the fun for themselves.
I didn’t have a great day at work either, KC, if that makes you feel any better.
Not to add to your woes but it was the third test between them.
All we needed to do was ‘be able to read’ in order to get that right. It’s a skill we always thought we had.
To tetchy meltdowns!
*Raises glass. Feels a bit sleepy.*
I’ve not really been upon Pakistan matches. But whenever I see the scores Misbah seems to be getting runs. Isn’t he about 45. And actually quite good?
I’m convinced the cricinfo article about the ‘coup’ is just a test to see how many acronyms I can keep track of at once. Seriously, BCCI-CA-ECB?! ExCo?! IDI?! F&CA?! It’s all too much – and I enjoy throwing jargon around that no-one else can understand.
I think this post needs to be cut by the Thunder.
at least i won my $100 betting on Pakistan to win
KC, I actually make it 237 words, excluding the (rubbish) headline. It has been a bad day for you.
And word has it at 239. Perhaps we’ll never know the truth.
these two badboys are your problem I should think: “–” and “–”.