< 1 minute readGed writes: My guest for the day was Charley “The Gent” Malloy. My last visit of 2008 saw Charley walk off with my tie. When I reported the loss to my mum, she informed me that the correct etiquette in such circumstances would be for me to inform Charley that
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Jrod’s book
< 1 minute readHe claims it’s got better spelling and grammar than the website, but he’s put ‘disrepsective’ on the page where he’s selling the thing, so do you trust him on that? The writer of Cricket With Balls gives us The Year Of The Balls 2008: a cricket disrespective. Part with your
Continue readingTwo cricket bats in unusually horrifying places
< 1 minute readNonononono. This is not happening. This is NOT happening. This is NOT… HAPPENING. Remember the worst picture of all time? Now this is the worst picture of all time: It was sent in by Suave, who says: “Attached is a photo of cricket bats in unusual places. It has two
Continue readingNice cricket T-shirts
< 1 minute readTake a look at our current range of cricket T-shirts Football supporters love wearing their team’s shirt to show their allegiance. The same thing’s never really happened with cricket shirts. This is largely because the majority of one-day shirts look like football shirts and cricket supporters don’t generally want to
Continue readingEoin Morgan does something mental with his cricket bat
< 1 minute readWe saw this plastered across Jrod’s Balls yesterday. It’s Eoin Morgan doing something quite ridiculous in the name of batting. It’s pretty impressive, but is he really that good? He can play that shot well enough in those circumstances, but how well would he bat with his upper arms tied
Continue readingA cricket bat in an unusually HORRIFYING place
< 1 minute readOh shit, oh shit. Oh no, oh no, oh no. This is quite simply the worst picture of all time. We are properly terrified of dead animals. We can’t stress this enough. Show us a grizzly bear and we’ll be scared. Show us a dead grizzly bear and we will
Continue readingIPL match report/ongoing feud with the ECB
3 minute readBert of ‘sports administration is like looking after your neighbour’s cat‘ fame writes: Last year I booked to go to see the IPL in India. Since then, I’ve not really taken much notice of the news. My travel agent – Clarke’s 20/20 Adventures – assured me that everything was tickety-boo,
Continue readingCricket headlines with puns in them
< 1 minute readThere’s a brilliant pun-based board game from the Eighties called You Must Be Joking which must be adored by cricket headline writers. Those guys just can’t let a pun pass them by. We describe that game as ‘brilliant’, but actually it was anything but. The full title was You Must
Continue readingBat For The Draw (Cricket Top Trumps)
< 1 minute readRemember Top Trumps? Course you do. Picking a category and hoping that the number on your card’s higher than the number on your opponent’s card. What could be more thrilling? We’ve got cricket Top Trumps on the site now. Repetitive and totally unsociable – it’s the perfect King Cricket game.
Continue readingAustralian cricket match report
2 minute readPrice writes: Whilst on a recent jaunt to Australia to a wedding that didn’t happen, I decided to go watch some kind of Australian cricket, which was fraught with difficulty: Attempt 1 Having researched that there was cricket on my first day in Perth, I duly jetlagged my way through
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