< 1 minute readWe just thought we’d warn you all about this fact, because chances are you lost interest in the Twenty20 Cup about a month ago. After 10,000 mostly pointless matches, we’ve managed to trim 18 teams down to eight. However, there are four matches today and tomorrow we will be down
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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.
Muttiah Muralitharan’s 800th Test wicket
< 1 minute readWe don’t get it. It was only Pragyan Ojha. What’s the big deal? If we’d taken 800 Test wickets, we wouldn’t be jumping up and down about getting Pragyan Ojha out. We’d have been more worked up about dismissing better batsmen, like Ian Salisbury or Chris Lewis.
Continue readingAsif, Aamer and Gul ask you if you enjoy fun
< 1 minute readIf you actually enjoy cricket, you can’t help but have enjoyed watching Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Aamer and Umar Gul bowl yesterday. It was better than spoon meat and carbonated dipping jam. That they bowled Australia out for 88 was something of a bonus. Quite simply, this was cricket LIKE IT’S
Continue readingA cricket bat joke – is this funny or not?
< 1 minute readWe’ve been having a discussion with someone about whether this is funny or not. If you have to explain a joke, it generally isn’t funny. But surely not in this instance. Surely. Bellingham and Smith is a cricket bat manufacturer. We’re of the belief that this is a new business
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< 1 minute readThen a chronic inability to spell people’s first names shouldn’t hold you back: “England cricketers Andrew Strauss, Alistair Cook and Eion Morgan put the Jaguar XJ through its paces” At least they got ‘Andrew’ right. One out of three isn’t too bad and the surnames are all spot-on. Good work.
Continue readingMiddlesex v Australians match report
3 minute readGed Ladd writes: I had been invited to a 30th anniversary reunion at school for this day. The thought of a formal school reunion horrified me, so I arranged to be at cricket during the day and at the theatre in the evening, to ensure my unavailability. I had met
Continue readingFind out whether you’ll one day captain Pakistan
< 1 minute readUsing a Venn diagram!
Continue readingThe Indian bowling defence
< 1 minute readWell it isn’t a bowling attack, is it? India have got a medium-pacer called Abhimanyu Mithun opening the bowling against Sri Lanka. We hadn’t even heard of him until this morning. Muralitharan said this week that Harbhajan Singh was the only person who could challenge his Test wickets record. At
Continue readingShahid Afridi should only play Test cricket
< 1 minute readOnly four days after returning to Test cricket, Pakistan captain, Shahid Afridi, has again announced his retirement with the typically odd yet straightforward statement: “My temperament is not good enough for Test cricket and we need a proper batsman or a proper bowler.” Only yesterday we were remarking how Test
Continue readingSteven Smith’s bowling action
< 1 minute readYou can waste a hell of a lot of time deconstructing Steven Smith’s double-elbowed chicken dance bowling action. We mentioned this to a friend of ours and he said, quite simply: “I want to deconstruct Steven Smith’s face.”
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