3 minute read Have you ever been at a funeral where they’ve skipped through the first 80 years of the person’s life before really dwelling on recent history? Half a century of adult life is summed up by counting progeny and then all the eulogy goes on about is how you liked a
Continue readingMonth: September 2013
Tim Bresnan falls between two stools
< 1 minute read Not really cycling. Just putting in some training for next year's Tour De France.@GaryVerity @Welcome2Yorks I know the roads #advantage pic.twitter.com/TqMIRmnZYG — Tim Bresnan (@timbresnan) September 9, 2013 And not cricket either. He gets one point for trying to broaden his horizons. Zero points for execution.
Continue readingWhy you don’t give a toss about England v Australia this month
< 1 minute read Following yesterday’s look at the workload that is being shouldered by fans, it seems a decent time to restate our position that ODIs don’t matter. We were quite surprised to note that the article in question was written almost two and a half years ago and so there may well
Continue readingSitting out England matches as a fan
< 1 minute read Being as this website is pretty much written by one person and being as you read this website, it shouldn’t be all that outlandish to suggest that you read something we’ve written elsewhere. Yes, we know that the comments are the main thing here, but even so, surely something must
Continue reading2013 County Championship – chapter 11
2 minute read This really got away from us. Not particularly looking forward to writing this update, it must be said. 1st – Durham Okay, Durham weren’t even in the top three the last time we did this in, er, July. Let’s try and work out how they’ve done this. Battered Derbyshire Soundly
Continue reading“Vitiated on account of malafide”
< 1 minute read Thank you, the IPL, and Lalit Modi specifically, for introducing us to this phrase. It appears to be Modi’s main defence in misconduct charges related to bid-rigging, ‘arm-twisting’ and summat to do with the sale of TV rights. It basically boils down to: “He’s well got it in for me,”
Continue readingMiddlesex v Surrey County Championship day one match report
2 minute read Ged writes: Early season, I always try to take in a day of county cricket with my old friend, Charley “The Gent” Malloy. It helps us both to get over the winter withdrawal symptoms. Before long, we were tucking in to salmon bagels (honey roasted salmon, not the more common
Continue readingAn Englishman and an Irishman walk onto a cricket field
2 minute read Sometimes there is cricket news that positively cries out for an irreverent article. In these situations, we know instantly that we should produce no such thing. It’s usually the kind of news that people email us about; the kind of topic people think we would cover well. It’s usually something
Continue readingJames Tredwell is a cult hero, right?
< 1 minute read We just want to confirm this really. He seems to have all the requisite qualities. Deluxe Nineties cricketer Of all England’s current players, James Tredwell is the one we think would have seemed most at home in England teams of the Nineties. He boasts a kind-of-okay first-class record and no
Continue readingHow many Tests against India in 2014?
< 1 minute read Five! A full five! This would appear to be the upside to the fact that Test cricket is pretty much only played by England, Australia and India these days. We finally get a full length series that isn’t the Ashes. When did that last happen? No, really – when? We
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