2 minute read There’s been a few headlines about the possibility of some free-to-air cricket off the back of the ECB’s proposed new T20 league. People get excited about this sort of thing, but the whole point of free-to-air is that it opens up a larger market, yet this is a form of
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I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – the North v South edition
2 minute read A semi-regular feature in which we ask Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. Anything you want to know about this week’s North v South cricket matches? Is this real? Is it really North versus South? Are they trying
Continue readingBooks to read at the cricket – A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
2 minute read Ged writes: This was a first for me in the matter of reading a novel while watching county cricket. In the past, at cricket, I have always gone for: factual books (usually on economics, psychology, ethics or some mixture of those things) plays journal articles and/or my general weekly reading
Continue readingA cricket book in an unusual place
< 1 minute read It’s been a while since we had a cricket thing in an unusual place – so long, in fact, that many of you won’t even know that it’s supposed to be a regular feature. Ged sent us the following photo and said only: “Sphere Of Influence By Gideon Haigh, spotted
Continue readingInnovative T20 scorecards – new ways to tell the story of a cricket match
3 minute read We were talking T20 scorecards on Friday and this led to a discussion about whether the traditional form is actually fit for purpose. Our point was that in a T20 match, it’s not just ‘how many’ and ‘how quickly’ – it’s also about when runs are scored and when wickets
Continue readingDo you click through to T20I scorecards?
2 minute read We’ve just realised we quite often don’t. Unlike some, we’re actually into Twenty20 cricket. Its formulaic nature means that a team’s strategy is easier to perceive and assess. But at the same time, unless we’re actively following a series it seems we don’t have any interest in looking at a
Continue readingI Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – the new England Test captain edition
2 minute read A semi-regular feature in which we ask Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. We are in bold. Prince Prefab is not. Joe Root said he was ‘humbled’ to be named England Test captain. We vaguely remember you moaning about people’s use of this word. It basically
Continue readingPeople are streaming live cricket online via Kodi
< 1 minute read If you don’t know about online TV streaming software, Kodi, we’ve written a bit of an explainer. As well as taking a quick look at the software itself, we’ve also looked at what sort of content’s available, the legality of streaming and what this technology might mean for the future
Continue readingICC horse design proposals approved to go before next committee
2 minute read The Test nations are poised to rain an almighty storm of compromises down on the ICC’s proposals for the international cricket schedule. We know this for a fact because in cricket ‘proposal’ means ‘thing that will never come about in any recognisable form’. These latest proposals – for some sort
Continue readingEXCLUSIVE! Rob Key’s position on snow revealed!
< 1 minute read And by ‘exclusive’ we mean that we reported information that was already publicly available for a third party before pointing you towards it from here. This week’s Twitter round-up has just gone up on Cricinfo. Critics are calling it ‘recently published and currently without comments’. Needless to say, we’ve led
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