< 1 minute readThey’re on Pick. You know… Pick! Yeah, you do. It’s the one you always skip past on your way to Eden when you think that maybe, just maybe, you’ll fancy watching something informative if exactly the right sort of programme just happens to be on. But it isn’t, so you
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Massive error on Cricinfo homepage
< 1 minute readThis is pretty much unforgivable. Reporting on the Women’s World Cup, they’ve gone with: “Spirited WI make it to maiden final” Clearly, it should be: “Spirited WI make it to maidens’ final.”
Continue readingSky’s World Twenty20 studio pundits
2 minute readThere is a very different feel to Sky’s coverage of the World Twenty20. It’s not the usual Test match team of presenters and pundits and we’re quite thankful for that. It’s not that Sky’s coverage is normally bad. It’s just very familiar. That David Gower and Ian Botham world can
Continue readingNasser Hussain describes one or two India players as ‘donkeys’
< 1 minute readThe BCCI are pissed off because Nasser Hussain said some of the India players were donkeys in the field. British viewers will find the comments below pretty innocuous, because ‘donkey’ is pretty common slang over here when referring to less athletic fielders. We’re guessing the term isn’t used so much
Continue readingKing Cricket wields a staggering degree of influence
< 1 minute readWe’ve an announcement to make. Remember how we got unjustifiably worked up about the shape of the K in the middle of the new logo for The Cricketer? Well, we’ve just had word from their offices and it seems that they’ve been moved to carry out AN OFFICIAL REVIEW. That’s
Continue readingGeoff Boycott fourth Test Ashes prediction failure
< 1 minute readSam writes: First morning of the fourth Test on Test Match Special. Geoff Boycott: “I can’t see any way England are going to win this.” Jonathan Agnew: “We’ve only had 12 minutes!” Geoff Boycott: “Well, I’m supposed to know what I’m talking about. That’s why I’m the expert and you’re
Continue readingThe Cricket Sadists’ Monthly
< 1 minute readJarrod Balls – as we’re going to start calling him, because it’ll get on his nerves – has put together an alternative cricket magazine with help from some friends. Many of you will already know about it, because you seem to have written a proportion of it. It’s called the
Continue readingNEW OBSESSION: Danny Morrison commentary
< 1 minute readWe haven’t had a weird obsession with a trivial element of cricket in ages. Luckily Danny Morrison’s bizarrely beguiling intonation has stepped into the breach. Hanging on his every word We don’t dislike Danny Morrison, but he’s not a good commentator. Despite this, we find ourself listening to him far
Continue readingMandira Bedi, IPL presenter on ITV4, has a high percentage of her face taken up by eyes
< 1 minute readIt’s astonishing. We’d say that around 10 per cent of Mandira Bedi’s face is eyes. That’s an unusually high percentage, particularly when you consider she’s only got two of them. Imagine if she had three! Also worth imagining is what she’d look like if she attempted the patented Damien Martyn
Continue readingCricket podcasts – why they’re better than real life
< 1 minute readYou only have to talk about cricket, meaning you can’t be exposed as the one-dimensional freak who’s lost touch with the wider world that really are Whenever you say something stupid or your brain comes to a grinding halt, Andy Zaltzman takes those bits out Listen to the latest episode
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