2 minute readThose of you who’ve been paying attention and reading to the ends of articles will know that we recently floated the possibility of switching off display advertising for a year. This was predicated on attracting a few new Patreon backers. We can’t remember the exact number. We think it was
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Happy birthday to King Cricket
2 minute readOur first reader got in touch with us this week – a man who once went by the name of The Scientician. Some of you may remember him from his shocking exposé of Jaffa Cakes as a sports snack. The Scientician pointed out to us that we’re 10. We don’t
Continue readingSome sort of meaningless century
< 1 minute readWe know what you all think. You think we spend our Thursdays sitting around eating flapjacks and watching old episodes of Airwolf. Well you’re wrong. We don’t renounce cricket on Thursdays. Far from it. We actually put in a double shift, writing all the stuff that comes out on a
Continue readingCricket gold amid the everyday silt
< 1 minute readAll Out Cricket have a regular feature where a writer celebrates an especially glorious summer and all the great memories it brings back. We had to rewrite ours because the first draft was too depressing. Our Golden Summer was 2000. Obviously it’s not. Obviously it’s 2005. But they can’t have
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< 1 minute readBrace yourselves. We’re taking a week off. Apparently it’s not just fast bowlers who need to recharge from time to time. As ever, we’ve got stuff lined up for next week: match reports, summat about New Zealand and stuff we’ve done for other people that you may have missed. Those
Continue readingTony Cozier’s notebook
< 1 minute readClearly the highlight of this weeks’ Twitter round-up. (Yes, we do still write that.) Our other favourite bit is Tino Best’s caption to a photo of himself where he claims he was bowling ‘thunderbolts’ and suggests that everyone nearby is looking on ‘in amazement’. To be totally clear, this is
Continue readingThe man who wrote his own textbook in illegible handwriting
< 1 minute readOur final King of Cricket appeared on the All Out Cricket website a couple of weeks ago. We didn’t link to it at the time because we thought it would get lost amid all the World Cup stuff. We didn’t want that to happen because it’s Shiv and you all
Continue readingBowlers still exist
< 1 minute readThat’s the surprising conclusion we’ve drawn from the last few weeks of cricket. More on this and a review of Australia’s win yesterday in our final World Cup column for the Mumbai Mirror. We’ll maybe have a few points to make about the tournament as a whole in coming days
Continue readingMitchell Starc never was soft
< 1 minute readHe just had a bad day once upon a time. Seems a long time ago. We just about managed to remember that far back for our Mumbai Mirror World Cup final day piece, in which we also expressed the hope that the team with no spinner should lose. We started
Continue readingHow to bat your way to a World Cup final
< 1 minute readThis World Cup really hasn’t turned out as batsman-centric as people imagined. Batting-centric, maybe, but not batsman-centric. Australia have Steve Smith and a whole bunch of minor contributors. New Zealand have four overs of Brendon McCullum and then everyone’s a little too shell-shocked to really know what’s going on after
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