< 1 minute read At the moment we can merely smell Rob Key being part of England, but soon – oh so soon – we’ll actually get to taste it. It’ll taste like hand-pulled elixir of life and we’ll quaff it like there’s no tomorrow. This is ironic, because the elixir of life kind
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Adil Rashid, Yorkshire – one to watch in 2009
< 1 minute read Adil Rashid, eh? Bet you’re blown away by our depth of cricketing knowledge and originality. It’s three years since we first tipped Adil Rashid and it’s the third year he’s been one to watch. It’s probably about time things started happening. By ‘things,’ we of course mean England recognition. Spectral
Continue readingSteve Davies, Worcestershire – one to watch in 2009
< 1 minute read To be honest, we haven’t got much to add to what we said about Steven Davies last year. At least this year he’ll be in Division One. This is the problem with news of earth-shattering importance – it makes writing about Worcestershire wicketkeepers less appealing. Imagine you work in the
Continue readingRob Key is about to become England captain
< 1 minute read He is, he is, he is, he is, he is, he is, he is. Rob Key is in England’s provisional 30-man squad for the World Twenty20 tournament, which, considering Andrew Strauss’s absence, puts him in prime position to take up his rightful place as captain/king of England. Most media outlets
Continue readingAndrew Flintoff’s celebrations
< 1 minute read We’re a bit worried about Andrew Flintoff. Not: ‘Oh my God, there’s a badger in the back seat of the car AND HE’S LOOKING RIGHT AT ME’ worried, but worried nonetheless. When he was taking his wickets against the West Indies on Friday, he did some posing. We’re not massively
Continue readingAndrew Flintoff’s hat trick against West Indies
< 1 minute read One-day hat tricks tend to be fun rather than jaw dropping, but it’s still very good to see Andrew Flintoff taking wickets. For all Flintoff’s good bowling, wickets are too rare and there needs to be more of this. We made two rather obvious conclusions after the big man dismissed
Continue readingEngland one day performances against West Indies
< 1 minute read England might not be the best 50 over side and they might not be the best Twenty20 side, but take them on at Fifty46.2, Fifty20 or Twenty-nine29 at your peril. They’re producing stunning performances in some of the newer formats. This evidence is scant enough to draw far reaching conclusions
Continue readingMark Davies, Durham – cricketer to watch in 2009
< 1 minute read A second Durham player and a second Durham seam bowler. Mark Davies is always one to watch, even if we erroneously overlooked him for the first time last year, thinking he wouldn’t get a game. We’ve a faint suspicion that Davies is the kind of bowler who’d get a lot
Continue readingJim Foat – legend among non-legends
< 1 minute read Jim Foat was a batsman for Gloucestershire in the Seventies. You probably haven’t heard of him; he wasn’t a great batsman. Jim Foat played 91 first-class matches and 129 one-day matches. First class average: 18.60. One-day average: 15.19. He didn’t take a wicket. Over 251 innings in first-class matches and
Continue readingLiam Plunkett, Durham – cricketer to watch in 2009
< 1 minute read Liam Plunkett’s partly representing Sajid Mahmood here as well (if it’s possible for one person to represent an entirely different person). It’s that whole ‘actually, those bowlers aren’t shite’ sentiment that we expressed a month or so ago. Both bowlers are synonymous with Duncan Fletcher prematurity, but that word ‘prematurity’
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