2 minute read We’ve done our usual Twitter thing for Cricinfo, but you’ll notice we haven’t mentioned Ryan Harris and his Al Swearengen style whinge about not being let into some casino. Nor have we mentioned Graeme Swann. If you don’t already know, Swann’s receiving criticism for likening England’s Ashes defeat to being
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The state of the cricketing nation
2 minute read We’ve a growing problem with what might be called the ‘dissection of the nation’s cricket system’ piece. More specifically, we’ve a problem with the increasing readiness to publish such articles. The state of the cricketing nation piece is when a writer draws far-reaching conclusions about the way the sport is
Continue readingTutenkhamen’s Tracksuit and other Christmas cricket books
4 minute read A quick bit of housekeeping before the second Test. We received a review copy of Alan Tyers’ new book a few weeks ago and haven’t yet said anything about it. On a related note, we’ll freely admit to not having read all of the cricket books, so if you’ve any
Continue readingAshes Cricket 2013 looks jeffing amazing
< 1 minute read At least it does if you’re a connoisseur of games which have really bad bugs. We once spent an entire afternoon trying to get a game to reproduce the caption “Docking completercycle”. As such, this looks magic to our eyes. They should rename it “Stuart Broad v The Netherlands Simulator”.
Continue readingYearning for a good old-fashioned display of incompetence
< 1 minute read Writing this kind of a website, there’s an optimum level of seriousness when it comes to bad news. Good news is hard to write about, but so is truly bad news like the current Jonathan Trott thing. What’s easiest is a good old-fashioned display of incompetence. That gives you something
Continue readingAshes Test highlights are on what channel?
< 1 minute read They’re on Pick. You know… Pick! Yeah, you do. It’s the one you always skip past on your way to Eden when you think that maybe, just maybe, you’ll fancy watching something informative if exactly the right sort of programme just happens to be on. But it isn’t, so you
Continue readingA quick Cricket Badger update
< 1 minute read We won’t do this regularly because that would be boring, but we thought we’d at least let you know how week one of Cricket Badger went. We picked up a couple of hundred subscribers – most within the first day. More pleasingly, we will have about 20 per cent more
Continue readingRemember that cricket newsletter we used to write?
2 minute read It was a weekly email we wrote to promote a cricket magazine. Some people said it was funny. Other people didn’t say anything about it, but still subscribed anyway. A few people didn’t subscribe at all – but not many. Like many things which are almost entirely about seeing Bob
Continue readingWhy in blazes do you read this website?
3 minute read We’d really appreciate a bit of feedback about the site. First, some background and an explanation as to why we’re asking. Background We’ve written this website in one form or another since the start of 2006. We wrote just over a thousand posts on the old .blogspot.com domain and have
Continue readingIf you were Samuel Beckett, who would you want to talk cricket with?
< 1 minute read For those who don’t know, Samuel Beckett was a playwright. There is also a fictional character called Sam Beckett who was played by Scott Bakula in Quantum Leap, but this story isn’t about him. It’s about the guy who wrote Waiting For Godot. The playwright Samuel Beckett also played two
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