< 1 minute read“All right Mrs Benn. Is your Sulieman playing out today?” That passes muster. Well done that man’s parents. We’ll go so far as to say it’s a magnificent name. See what we’ve done there? 6ft7in left-arm spinners don’t grow on trees. They ARE trees. It would be good if the
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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.
ICL match report
2 minute readJrod writes: Like most people at 4pm on a Wednesday, I was watching the ICL. The Bangladeshi World ICL team were playing the Indian World ICL team. Battle of the titans. Mostly I was watching to see how many times the commentators forgot to mention their correct titles and just
Continue readingAndrew Symonds continues to embrace tooldom
< 1 minute readIt’s difficult to escape the feeling that Andrew Symonds is being punished by Cricket Australia for just generally being a bit of a pillock. Symonds isn’t being selected for Australia’s upcoming tour of South Africa. It’s partly because he went on radio half-cut and called New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum ‘a
Continue readingAB de Villiers in un-ace shocker
< 1 minute readYou all thought that AB de Villiers was ace at everything. He isn’t. Roscoe drew our attention to Show Them Who You Are, a single on which AB sings and plays guitar. Roscoe rather generously gave it 1/10. Apparently someone phoned up a South African radio station to tell them
Continue readingEngland beat Pakistan at the Oval
< 1 minute readNearly three years on and still they’re arguing about whether England ‘won’ via a Pakistan forfeiture or whether it was ‘match abandoned’. At best it’s splitting hairs. Everyone knows what it was: a balls-up. The match should be officially reclassified as such. Sport is of the moment. Except for a
Continue readingLendl Simmons continues a rich West Indian tradition
< 1 minute readLendl Simmons continues the rich West Indian tradition of having a first name to die for. Just think of the greats who’ve represented the islands: Curtly, Tino, Reon and Vasbert. Our own personal favourite is ‘Wavell’. There’s a great way to test how good a first name is; you simply
Continue readingThanks for stopping our website from seizing up in our absence
< 1 minute readWe massively enjoyed reading about the cutting of dangling seatbelts by stalkers and the breaking of greenhouses with airborne gnomes on our return. We were also relieved to see that some of you took the trouble to point out news that we’d missed in the full knowledge that we weren’t
Continue readingAlways watch the ball
< 1 minute readOn no account stand six feet away from the stumps and watch the blimp instead. Canny bowlers will take advantage.
Continue readingAndrew Strauss miscomprehends Law 41.3
< 1 minute readThe batting side only gets five penalty runs added to their total when the ball hits a helmet belonging to the fielding side. You can’t just repeatedly play the ball into your own face and hope to win a match.
Continue readingStanford Twenty20 match report
2 minute readWe probably should have published this nearer the time when the whole undercutting of the PR hoopla via profound disinterest made more sense. Never mind. Just imagine that it’s Stanford week and you’re sick of it. Miriam writes: The big day started in a bit of a rush as we
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