< 1 minute readThis is what they do nowadays. They say they’re thinking of picking someone as a means of increasing the scrutiny on them and then they see how the player reacts. Earlier in the season, word got out that England were almost certainly going to pick Scott Borthwick. He reacted by
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Otherwise known as Alex Bowden, a lapsed cricket journalist who has written for ESPNCricinfo, wisden.com, Cricket 365, The Cricketer and plenty of other places.
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Yorkshire bear down on Middlesex
2 minute readBefore the latest round of County Championship matches, Yorkshire were five points adrift of Middlesex. NOW THEY’RE ONLY FOUR POINTS BEHIND. Truly, it was the definitive week of this year’s competition. Eight teams were in action and the points accrued ranged from 8 to 11 as everyone drew. Nottinghamshire were
Continue readingOne major worry about England’s one-day team
< 1 minute readThey aren’t due. Aren’t remotely due. This occurred to us midway through yesterday’s run-chase when they were a few wickets down. While they eventually overhauled Pakistan’s total, that’s only postponing the problem. Yes, there are arguably players who haven’t scored too many runs recently, but unfortunately for them, England aren’t
Continue readingLast week’s County Championship news… today!
< 1 minute readSuppose we should try and catch up. We’d left it so long we were thinking about doing a double round-up after the matches taking place at the minute, but then we thought about how long that article would end up being and decided we had to do some nettle grasping.
Continue readingYeah, maybe worth taking a look at him in other formats
2 minute readBoundaries are smaller, the white ball does sod all, fielding restrictions are imposed. There are all sorts of reasons why one-day cricket is different from Tests, but all are of secondary importance to the simple fact that it is. England’s quadruple nelson was built around a record hundred for Alex
Continue readingA quite possibly harrowing development involving a car number plate
< 1 minute readBert writes: It’s been months now since The Revered One departed this plane of existence and ascended to the Sky (Sports studio). Such elevation cannot but affect a man, but I must say I had thought that Robert the Great would be immune, that he would be able to maintain
Continue readingWhat Jason Gillespie taught us as Yorkshire coach
< 1 minute readJason Gillespie’s leaving Yorkshire at the end of the season. Disappointingly, he never picked up the accent. We always thought that Gillespie would make a terrible coach on the grounds that he did a really bad job of explaining his nickname in a TV interview in about 2003. He has
Continue readingA new low for cricket – a new low for the world
< 1 minute readThis represents so much of what’s wrong with the world. England organise a penalty shoot out before a nets session #eng #EngvsPak ???? @jwsportsphoto – https://t.co/q9QOEDst5Y pic.twitter.com/Ojdiv2HJUE — PA Images (@PAImages) August 26, 2016 You can’t even see the full horror from that. We saw it because it had been
Continue readingWarwickshire v Middlesex match report
< 1 minute readYou may or may not know that the one quality we always look for in a piece of writing is brevity. If you have submitted a match report and seen it hacked to a skeleton, you will know this. Ged has submitted countless match reports. We semi-regularly tell him to
Continue readingThe ins, outs and merits of England’s one-day plan
2 minute readIt’s not an elaborate plan. It’s not particularly intricate. It is however consistent and that is perhaps of greater importance than anything else. Previously, England seemed to pick 11 players before deciding how to play based on what they ended up with. This led to an ever-changing formula from which
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