< 1 minute read With first playing second in the County Championship, it’s a good time for a brief update on the state of the tournament. Nottinghamshire have been the best side this year. They’re second with a game in hand on Yorkshire, who they’re currently battering. This season Yorkshire have been reliant on
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Sajid Mahmood batting at five?
< 1 minute read Yes, it did happen and he wasn’t a nightwatchman because it was a Twenty20 match – the quarter-final against Essex. It makes a kind of sense. Sajid Mahmood’s been batting surprisingly well for Lancashire this season, hitting four fifties in his 10 first-class innings and scoring at quite a lick.
Continue readingStephen Moore has a duff day
< 1 minute read Losing a match is bad Being out LBW is bad Being out first ball is bad Being out first ball of the innings is bad Dislocating your shoulder in the outfield is bad At least Stephen Moore can console himself with the fact that he’s not Giles Clarke.
Continue readingThe Twenty20 Cup is about to get good
< 1 minute read We 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
Continue readingA worrying Rob Key development
< 1 minute read Thanks to Bradders for pointing us towards this: But also not thanks. Pretending things are guns is never cool. Somebody will have told him to do it, but that doesn’t matter. Rob could have gone for bat-as-guitar or bat-as-snooker-cue even. Both would have been better than bat-as-gun. There’s the sunglasses
Continue readingThey’ve wedged in some County Championship fixtures
< 1 minute read Shit! They’re playing County Championship matches. How did that happen? We’d checked the fixture lists and had therefore been slacking off because it’s only the Twenty20 Cup and we can’t really be arsed with that until they’ve finished the crappy group stages. But knock our chicken and chorizo sandwich to
Continue readingThe Point at Old Trafford Cricket Ground
< 1 minute read What do you make of The Point? We think it looks like an old-fashioned fan heater – only red. A friend of ours thinks it looks like someone’s knocked over a toaster – only red. It’s not bad. Some cricket folk are getting a bit carried away with what it
Continue readingStephen Moore and Sajid Mahmood
< 1 minute read Durham aren’t the only team who are currently muddling by with about one and a half batsmen. Lancashire’s current mediocrity is largely due to a batting order that starts at six with Steven Croft and ends at seven with Glen Chapple. Actually, that’s not fair. Sajid Mahmood has been playing
Continue readingWhat’s happened to Durham this season?
< 1 minute read As we pointed out yesterday, Durham’s season isn’t a complete catastrophe. Two wins, two draws and a loss isn’t the end of the world. (The machines haven’t even managed to produce a single robot cricketer yet, so the end of the world’s months away.) That said, Durham are increasingly prone
Continue readingFantasy Cricket Administrator League 2010
2 minute read Bert writes: Everyone in my office is currently all abuzz about the prospect of a Fantasy World Cup. I wondered if anything similar existed for our favourite pastime. Sadly it appears not, so I have felt the need to invent one. Welcome to Fantasy Cricket Administrator League 2010. What you
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