< 1 minute read We’re not quite sure how to tackle the issues of the day, so in time-honoured tradition, we’re not bothering. At one extreme, we’ve got the T20 Blast. We watched Friday night’s televised game and kind of felt we should say something about it, but then we didn’t because the weather
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The Shire Horse
< 1 minute read We’ve another thing. It’s a fortnightly column for All Out Cricket called The Shire Horse. It’s non-serious, so you don’t have to sigh and roll your eyes at our making an attempt to ‘say something’. We hope you’re okay with the fact that we’re increasingly linking to stuff we’ve written
Continue readingMatt Prior’s reduced weight jogging
< 1 minute read “I believe it’s jogging – or yogging. It might be a soft J, I’m not sure. But apparently you just run for an extended period of time.” Cricinfo today. We’ve written about anti-gravity for them. They seemed okay with that. Needless to say, Graham Gooch’s moustache gets a mention as
Continue readingThe Liam Plunkett thing
< 1 minute read If you read about county cricket much, you’ll be familiar with this kind of thing. A player you hadn’t thought about a right lot suddenly starts worming his way into every second article, even though he doesn’t seem to have done anything especially eyecatching. In May 2014, that person is
Continue readingSelling your brand of cricket
< 1 minute read We’ve done a non-satirical piece for Cricinfo. It’s about branding. Or is it? Perhaps it would be more accurate to say it’s about propaganda. A lot of the focus is on how the Australian cricket team cherry picks facets of its game to talk up while saying very little about
Continue readingDon Bradman Cricket 14 review | Xbox 360 and PS3
3 minute read Buy Don Bradman Cricket 14 from Amazon No, you haven’t missed 13 iterations of this game. That 14’s the year. Quite why the year’s relevant when the game’s named after a guy who died 13 years ago is beyond us, but there you go. Why Don Bradman? It’s unusual to
Continue readingMoney, retirement and a sad day for anyone who mourns lost brews
< 1 minute read Nobody ever thinks of the hot beverages when there’s a natural disaster. But they can be casualties too – as you’ll discover if you read our Twitter round-up for Cricinfo. Our favourite bit’s Lonwabo Tsotsobe’s blunt realism though, which basically boils down to: ‘Don’t imagine anything good will ever happen
Continue readingOr how about Samit Patel?
< 1 minute read This early season is taking us back. Before Panesar and then Swann, picking an England spin bowler was like buying discounted fruit and veg. There was something wrong with whatever you chose, but could you find a way of using it somehow? You needed the vitamins, after all. We feel
Continue readingWho’s got gloves? Have you got gloves? Okay, you’re picked
< 1 minute read Say what you like about Craig Kieswetter’s work behind the sticks, at least he owns a pair of gloves. We’ve half a mind that he’ll end up as England’s Test wicketkeeper simply because he’s the only one who spends any time actually keeping wicket. Today’s Yorkshire report on Cricinfo centres
Continue readingWho says this site doesn’t serve a valuable purpose?
< 1 minute read Just a quick update to draw your attention to an old post which a lot of you won’t have seen because it’s from 2009. It’s about Jim Foat. If you don’t know Jim Foat, it’s hopefully worth a read, but that’s not the main reason why we’re reviving it today.
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