2 minute readGed writes: “Have you brought the actual bottle of red wine you forgot to bring last time?” I asked, as I arrived to find Charley the Gent Malloy in the front row of the Mound Stand. “Absolutely – here it is,” said Charley, showing off a very appealing-looking bottle of
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Some sort of meaningless century
< 1 minute readWe know what you all think. You think we spend our Thursdays sitting around eating flapjacks and watching old episodes of Airwolf. Well you’re wrong. We don’t renounce cricket on Thursdays. Far from it. We actually put in a double shift, writing all the stuff that comes out on a
Continue readingAshes match report – day one at Trent Bridge
3 minute readBert writes: There is a law around these parts, that match reports must not UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES mention the actual cricket. Normally, this presents few problems. Cricket is largely incidental, both to a day at the match and to this website. “About the cricket, but not ABOUT the cricket”, best
Continue readingClontarf Second XI v Laois match report
4 minute readDumbo The Suzuki Jimny writes: My name is Dumbo. I am a little Suzuki Jimny, making my living by being Ged Ladd’s car. In our neighbourhood I have lots of big relatives, mostly Range Rovers, commonly known as Chelsea tractors. Those big posh Range Rover fellas claim that they are
Continue readingDay three of the 2015 Edgbaston Ashes Test – match report
4 minute readBert writes: The final day of the Edgbaston Test wasn’t supposed to be that. In fact, at tea on day two, there was considerable doubt as to whether the final day would actually happen at all. Not that there wouldn’t have been a final day, of course, that doesn’t make
Continue readingThe rump ire strikes back – Middlesex v Durham match report
2 minute readGed writes: “How did Charley the Gent Malloy get on, sitting on these infernal pavilion benches with his sore back when you came here with him the other week?” asked Daisy. “We didn’t stay here long,” I replied. “Although his main beef was less the pain, more the fact that
Continue readingA budgerigar being conspicuously indifferent to cricket
< 1 minute readBalladeer writes: Recently my friend acquired a budgerigar, named Amigo. The second photograph I saw of said budgie was this: Crammed himself into his feeder. An Australian species of parrot, wearing the green-and-gold, with David Warner’s intelligence. Could you get more of an obvious Australian fan? I asked my friend
Continue readingEngland v Australia Edgbaston in 2005 – a 10th anniversary match report
2 minute readDandy Dan writes: The week before this Test, Will and I had been on a stag WEEK in Dublin. During the planning stages of this trip we had both been excited about this prospect. However, the reality was somewhat disappointing. The kindest thing to say is that the rest of
Continue readingCricket needs to embrace independent governance rather than allowing itself to be run like some sort of 19th Century gentlemen’s club
2 minute readA couple of months ago, jaynefrancis pointed out to us that large parts of our bleak dystopian episodic cricket story about cricket administration had actually come true. As satire goes, it wasn’t the most subtle. Again and again, short term decisions are taken by caricatured men in suits with godawful
Continue readingTwo dogs being conspicuously indifferent to cricket
< 1 minute readDandy Dan writes: These are my two labs, George and Rufus. They’re just over one year old. I’ve been meaning to introduce them for a while but I’ve been busy. Anyway, their thoughts about Gary Ballance being dropped are difficult to ascertain. They simply don’t appear to be interested. If
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