< 1 minute readMiriam writes: This is Churro, the kitten we were looking after for a fortnight. As you can see, he isn’t conspicuously indifferent to cricket, as he is using the Wisdens as a protective wall from humans who try to stop him gnawing at books. He is obviously also ruminating on
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South Africa v England, Centurion Test – match report
2 minute readI hadn’t been feeling terribly well, having been off work for a couple of weeks with an ear infection, but had arranged to meet a couple of friends in London on the afternoon of the first day of the series. It was very cold. I think it was snowing. I
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< 1 minute readJarrod Balls – as we’re going to start calling him, because it’ll get on his nerves – has put together an alternative cricket magazine with help from some friends. Many of you will already know about it, because you seem to have written a proportion of it. It’s called the
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< 1 minute readWe’ve just left the country. Regular readers will know that this tends to signal an improvement in quality due to the fact that we rely on a lot of reader submissions while we’re away. In the next fortnight, we’ve got the annual sham that is our county cricket ‘ones to
Continue readingA cricket bat from an unusual angle
< 1 minute readBobby K sent us this: We thought it might look pretty cool if we cropped out all the background. It didn’t really, but we’re including the picture anyway. You invest 10 or 12 seconds in cropping a photo and you want to share it with the world.
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< 1 minute readWe haven’t had a weird obsession with a trivial element of cricket in ages. Luckily Danny Morrison’s bizarrely beguiling intonation has stepped into the breach. Hanging on his every word We don’t dislike Danny Morrison, but he’s not a good commentator. Despite this, we find ourself listening to him far
Continue readingMandira Bedi, IPL presenter on ITV4, has a high percentage of her face taken up by eyes
< 1 minute readIt’s astonishing. We’d say that around 10 per cent of Mandira Bedi’s face is eyes. That’s an unusually high percentage, particularly when you consider she’s only got two of them. Imagine if she had three! Also worth imagining is what she’d look like if she attempted the patented Damien Martyn
Continue readingCricket podcasts – why they’re better than real life
< 1 minute readYou only have to talk about cricket, meaning you can’t be exposed as the one-dimensional freak who’s lost touch with the wider world that really are Whenever you say something stupid or your brain comes to a grinding halt, Andy Zaltzman takes those bits out Listen to the latest episode
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< 1 minute readDelhi Daredevils’ Dinesh Karthik had just been stumped by his Mumbai Indians counterpart, Aditya Tare. Harbhajan Singh had bowled a wide, but Tare had gone down the legside and flicked it behind him to hit the stumps. It was a brilliant piece of work, deserving of lofty praise. On commentary,
Continue readingThe Cricinfo Hawkeye tool – cricket information until your eyes bleed
2 minute readDear The Internet, You’ve never asked us if we felt you contained too much information. If you asked us now, we would say ‘yes’. The Cricinfo Hawkeye tool lets us see the path of every ball of every over during the whole of a Test match. We don’t WANT to
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