2 minute readEssex won the Bob Willis Trophy because they scored more first innings runs than Somerset in the final. Essex made 337-8 and Somerset made 301. Alastair Cook scored 172. Only one other Essex player passed 30. There is something satisfying about this; the idea that the best players are very
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2 minute readThe Bob Willis Trophy final between Somerset and Essex is taking place this week. There were only 44 overs yesterday, but that’s okay because it’s a five-day game. The big news is that you can watch it. Sky Sports, the England and Wales Cricket Board and the BBC are all
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3 minute readYou might be expecting some sort of pithy takedown of Colin Graves’ tenure as ECB chairman here. Don’t get your hopes up. Our headline is brutally literal. We just watched Graves defending The Hundred and other things on Sky Sports and it struck us that his hand gestures were feeble.
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2 minute readIt’s probably social media that’s sapped our taste for talent-spotting. The online world is awash with people predicting great things for players. They’re usually wrong but we know as well as anyone that it’s a numbers game: predict great things for absolutely everyone and then flag up only your ‘hits’
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< 1 minute readJoe Root has become the latest person to suggest that they should use the Kookaburra ball for some of the County Championship. There is a very obvious and correct way of doing this that almost certainly be overlooked. Speaking to The Telegraph, Root said of the Kookaburra: “It is a
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2 minute readA brief history of what’s been wrong with the County Championship in the fairly recent past, the present, and in a couple of years’ time… The last of those seems to be on the cards going by an interview with Ashley Giles in the latest issue of The Cricketer. Giles
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