< 1 minute read Those of you with elephantine memories may be wondering whether Cricket Life‘s out yet. It’s not. However, their website has been updated with a fantastic picture of Mike Hussey. “Okay, Mike. If you could just try and look a bit more like a retarded cow then that’d be great. “Okay,
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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.
England’s Stanford Twenty20 squad
< 1 minute read We’ve been waiting for the announcement of England’s Stanford squad with the strange notion that we’d have something to say about it. Other than bemoaning the absence of Ian Austin, Chris Tavaré and Alan Igglesden, we’ve nothing. The squad’s who you think it is and the same players make up
Continue readingMark Nicholas presents Britain’s Best Dish
< 1 minute read Did you know about this? Why did no-one tell us? Here’s what the Britain’s Best Dish site says: “After a hugely successful transition to cuisine, Mark has returned to present the second series of Britain’s Best Dish.” We suppose that if you make a hugely successful transition into something, you’re
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Fundamental problems with the County Championship
< 1 minute read Does it have to end in September? ‘Hurray,’ they say. They punch the air, grab a stump and then run inside, because it’s getting chilly and dark. Once inside, they stay there for seven months. There’s also the problem that the counties have been playing for five months now and
Continue readingIndia’s dog turd fixture list
< 1 minute read If you want to see the technology of tomorrow, today: go to Japan. If you want to see the cricketing fixture lists of tomorrow, today: look to India. India have never played a home Test against Bangladesh, despite the latter being a Test team since 2000. They don’t want to,
Continue readingTwenty20 finals day match report
2 minute read Ed (33 and a half) writes: My sister’s broadband had stopped working so I rang her ISP’s help desk. After 30 minutes of stupid, obvious questions they said they’d have to send a BT engineer to have a look. When they told me it was going to cost £180 I
Continue readingThat’s a win
< 1 minute read 6-1 off three overs? That’s a win. We need to be more decisive about things like this. We can’t just say that there was ‘no result’ because there wasn’t much cricket. That’s just laziness. There was plenty of cricket. Three overs is plenty and what we saw was clearly an
Continue readingGraeme Hick retires
2 minute read We learnt a lot through Graeme Hick. We learnt that nothing’s preordained. We learnt that heroes can let you down. We learnt that huge talent isn’t the sole ingredient for Test success and we learnt that if you mess about dropping and reselecting players it doesn’t help them one bit.
Continue readingWhat’s Steven Davies been up to?
< 1 minute read He’s been playing in division two, which of course doesn’t count. That’s what Steven Davies has been doing. He has had a good time recently though. Worcestershire are in the first division of the Pro40 league and played two matches last week. Against Somerset, Davies hit a quarter of the
Continue readingPeter Moores talks balls
< 1 minute read We mean that how you think we mean it. He’s not been going on about Kookaburras or whatever. Talking about Andrew Flintoff Peter Moores said: “When it gets tight he takes a deep breath and delivers his skills.” Maybe that doesn’t bother you, but all sorts of alarm bells started
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