4 minute read Last week we suggested that maybe the golden age of cricket videogame graphics had passed; that maybe player likenesses would from now on always be too convincing and insufficiently amusing. Let’s take a look back on how things have changed, starting with the most recent funny graphics and working our
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Ashes Cricket to be released on PC, PS4 and Xbox One
2 minute read What do you love most about cricket videogames? If you answered “the deep customisation options” then good news – the developers of the upcoming Ashes Cricket have been listening to you. “Time and time again players tell us the feature they love most about our cricket games is the deep
Continue readingI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – the upcoming Ashes tour edition
3 minute read A semi-regular feature in which we ask a fella going by the name of Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. It strikes us that a looming Ashes tour is one of the few times when the sport might
Continue readingA cricket bat in a Danish nouveau-punk duo’s video
< 1 minute read Ged writes: PowerSolo are a wild and crazy Danish nouveau-punk duo. They mostly tour around Europe, not the UK. My old friend Pinball Geoff put me onto them recently – they are even more mad than his band, the Bikini Beach Band. Short story. During the first twenty seconds of
Continue readingA spider being conspicuously indifferent to cricket
< 1 minute read Ged writes: This plucky fellow was observed in the Lower Compton Stand at Lord’s, very close to the historic concrete step where King Cricket demonstrated his “Real World Skills” in 2016. Perhaps this spider’s magnificent web is an arachnidian equivalent of a blue plaque, commemorating King Cricket’s astonishing feat…or merely
Continue readingTigger being conspicuously indifferent to Toby Roland-Jones
< 1 minute read Mike writes: Try as I might, I was unable to get Tigger to show the slightest interest in To-Ro-Jo’s debut destruction of the Saffer top order – in fact she positioned herself as far away as possible from the action, atop a throne of recently used but as-yet-unputaway guest bedding.
Continue readingHalf a dozen cricket balls in an unusual place
< 1 minute read This is how you do home décor people. Marking the other strand of our other writing life, our bike is also in the kitchen. In contrast to the cricket balls, its decorative worth is still the matter of some debate. Send your pictures of cricket bats and other cricket stuff
Continue readingBooks to read at the cricket? Iphigenia Among The Taurians by Euripides
2 minute read Ged writes: Plays are generally quite good for reading during a day of county cricket. It doesn’t take all that long to read a play. In my case, this means I get to see cricket, read a play, do some general reading (e.g. from The Economist and/or The Week) and
Continue readingCricket beer carrying goes up a notch – The Device gets supersized
2 minute read Remember The Device? The Device was created about 20 years ago by Special Correspondent Dad so that he could sidestep the flimsy and unreliable cardboard beer carriers that were handed out at Old Trafford at that time. Pint-carrying technology has only advanced in two-steps-forward-one-step-back fashion since then so The Device
Continue readingCricinfo’s new home page looks really amateur
< 1 minute read Cricinfo have redesigned their website so that it looks like one of those ones that scrapes your content and republishes it in breach of copyright. The home page in particular looks like some sort of template from GoDaddy.com. The home page was dreadful before, in all honesty, but in an
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