2 minute readWe had at least one dissatisfied reader last week who seemed to be labouring under the misapprehension that we might have been looking to offer “insight”. There’ll be none of that here. Surrey v Lancashire Surrey, just 22 points above the relegation zone, would do well to focus on gaining
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Laurence Elderbrook finds a new way to share his gift
< 1 minute readSeveral seasons have passed and I fear that if I leave it much longer, my skills might begin to wane. I could spend another summer at my gentlemen’s club, laying wagers and sharing brandies with other Renaissance men, but there will be plenty of time for that later. Now, while
Continue readingMop-up of the day – our 2017 IPL expertise laid bare
< 1 minute readCricinfo is running an IPL quiz called Wait, which team does he play for? We can’t work out whether this is a joke about the inherently transient nature of many Twenty20 competitions or an acknowledgement that ever-changing squads are all part of the fun. We scored two out of ten,
Continue readingMark Footitt and some other stuff: a review of the first round of the County Championship
2 minute readThe first round of the County Championship is over. Here are some of the things that happened. Hampshire beat Yorkshire This match was one for true connoisseurs of momentum in cricket. Hampshire had all the momentum when Yorkshire fell to 152-7 in their first innings, but momentum being momentum, it
Continue readingWho is Ben Coad, Yorkshire’s new strike bowler?
< 1 minute readEmbed from Getty Images Earlier this week, Ben Coad was just some dude; some dude called Ben Coad; a young bowler whose Cricinfo profile page has him down as a ‘workhorse seamer’. A couple of days into the county season and he’s Ben Coad, strike bowler. He finished the first
Continue readingA preview of the first round of County Championship matches?
2 minute readDon’t expect us to ever do this again – and not just because the competition will, by definition, be moving onto the second round of matches next week. Essex v Lancashire This is the only one anyone really cares about, because everyone supports Lancashire. That’s what our empathy tells us.
Continue readingThere’s a King Cricket County Championship fantasy league after all
< 1 minute readAs with so many things, we sort of half-floated the idea with no real enthusiasm and then someone else went ahead and sorted it out. Mike has set up The King Cricket CBA Cup within The Telegraph’s county fantasy league thing. CBA stands for ‘can’t be arsed’ to reflect the
Continue readingAs the IPL and County Championship loom into view, which fantasy cricket game is best?
2 minute readIf there’s one thing we like about fantasy cricket leagues, it’s eking out our few remaining fantasy points/doubloons over half a dozen all-but-unknown cricketers to complete our XI after going a bit overboard with our first two selections and an unsuccessful attempt to rein things in a bit with the
Continue readingCounty cricketers to watch 2017
2 minute readWe stopped doing this in 2014 because we always seemed to end up picking much the same bunch of players as the year before with perhaps one or two replacements. In short, it had become a bit boring and whenever we threw a leftfield selection into the mix to liven
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