< 1 minute readWe’re pretty sure that none of you are in favour of change, so apologies for making things look different. Just try and ignore it. If you want someone to blame, blame The Crowe. We got him to do this design for us. We’d link to his website, but he hasn’t
Continue readingAuthor: King Cricket
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.
Links to some non-cricket writing and a bit more background here.
If only there were an eighth one-day international between Australia and England
< 1 minute readWhat is the greatest mark of quality for any given one-day international? We’ve always thought that if a game features four wicketkeepers, that’s a pretty good sign. During the seventh one-day international between Australia and England, that dream was finally realised. In many ways, this match represented a high water
Continue readingWin Out of the Ashes on DVD (UK residents only)
< 1 minute readTo be in with a chance of winning one of 10 copies of Out of the Ashes on DVD, simply name a non-Test-playing nation and in 50 words or fewer explain how you would get them to the 2015 World Cup. Funniest and most colourful answers win. Don’t put your
Continue readingSpot fixing bans and second chances for Amir, Asif and Butt
2 minute readPeople are idiots. That’s a rule that pretty much always stands up to scrutiny. Put people in a position where there’s a choice to make and they will naturally veer towards the stupid option by default. Even so, some options are sufficiently stupid that most of us don’t take them.
Continue readingOut of the Ashes | DVD review
2 minute readOut of the Ashes is a documentary about the Afghanistan cricket team’s joyously ludicrous journey from war to the Twenty20 World Cup. Have you ever watched a film and felt completely and utterly unmoved by the most spectacular action sequences because you don’t care one bit about the characters in
Continue readingNot enough Blu-Tack in cricket
< 1 minute readYou know it and we know it too. Thankfully, there’s a little bit of Blu-Tack on the Wisden Cricketer blog at the moment. The bit where some of the Blu-Tack looks sad is a high point.
Continue readingLondon Tigers tour to Bangladesh – joke needed
< 1 minute readLondon Tigers are sending a team to tour Bangladesh at the same time as the World Cup. London Tigers help underprivileged youths, so we’re having a hard time coming up with a joke for today’s post. Maybe something about them being better than England? Is there something in that? You’re
Continue readingAshes series were already too frequent
2 minute readWe’d like to add a slightly more sober footnote to our post from last Friday. We described back-to-back Ashes series as being ‘quite literally the worst idea of all time’. We stand by that and would like say that it’s actually the worst idea by an even greater margin that
Continue readingBacklift | batting lessons
< 1 minute readAs the bowler runs in, lift the bat backwards in the direction of the stumps. Keep raising the bat until you feel glad. If you start to feel depressed and resentful, your bat is too high. Ensure your shoulder rolls counter-topwise at the moment the bat reaches its highest point
Continue readingLiam Plunkett’s going to be eating highly compacted food served in square plastic dishes
< 1 minute readThat’s our way of saying that Liam Plunkett’s flying from the Caribbean to Australia to maybe-or-maybe-not appear in a dead rubber for England before flying back again. At least James Anderson had a new slavering bairn as a reason for racking up thousands of air miles. That’s a decent reason.
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