2 minute readBert writes: Cricket offers so much more than any other sporting experience. Very often it poses a series of moral and philosophical questions worthy of any Radio 4 mid-afternoon programme. There’s the “how white can white possibly get?” type question, or the “is darkness a thing in itself, the absence
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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.
Links to some non-cricket writing and a bit more background here.
International Cricket 2010 game review | PS3, Xbox 360
3 minute readInternational Cricket 2010 is a rubbish name, but it’s a great game. Batting The batting in Ashes Cricket 2009, the last version of this game, was excellent. It’s now slightly better with greater control of each shot’s power. If you don’t try and knock the leather off the ball, you’ve
Continue readingWhat is The Point?
< 1 minute readBert writes: I answer the question that’s been plaguing the world of county cricket all summer. It’s a fan heater. It’s got heating elements in it.
Continue readingYasir Hameed exclusive: he reads the News of the World
< 1 minute readOr he’s read other reports about the News of the World story. Or he’s overheard someone talking about it. Yasir Hameed has been BLOWING THE LID OFF CRICKET CORRUPTION by repeating things he’s read in the News of the World to someone from the News of the World. He’s been
Continue readingWe haven’t totally crippled Durham’s players
< 1 minute readOur 2010 cricketers to watch list weighs heavily on our shoulders like a yoke of inaccuracy. It’s not been a vintage year, but thoughts that we had cursed the Durham contingent can now be banished. They’ve all come good in the same match. Well, not Will Smith. He’s not getting
Continue reading150% SERIES report
3 minute readDandy Dan writes: Eager to avenge his defeat in last summer’s Test, Ben had spent some of the considerable amount of time that he had on his hands in preparing slightly more professional equipment than we had at our disposal last year. Unfortunately, given that he’d been away from Blighty
Continue readingGiles Clarke – an unfair but fairly amusing comparison of two pictures
< 1 minute readCharged with massive fraud involving $8bn investment scheme Alleged to have bowled a deliberate no-ball
Continue readingA rousing speech about spot fixing
< 1 minute readFriends, we must take a stand. This great game has been our lifeblood for oh so many years and now is the time to return that favour. Just as cricket sustained us, so must we now sustain it in these times of hardship. This noble game of ours is badly
Continue readingReceiving money for underperformance
2 minute readA man with a pencil moustache approaches King Cricket. Man: Hellooooo. KC: Er, hello? Man: How are you doing this fine day? KC: I’m fine. Sorry, do I know you? Man: No, you don’t know me. But perhaps you should. The man raises an eyebrow and looks King Cricket up
Continue readingHow do you feel about the Pakistan betting scam?
< 1 minute readWe just feel depressed. Cricket is joyful escapism and this kind of thing just knackers it up. Questioning on-field events Assuming it’s true (and having seen Mohammad Amir’s giant no-ball, we’re pretty sure it is) the real damage is in the fact that people question everything that happens in a
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