Category: County cricket

2 minute readThere was a fair bit of noteworthy action in the County Championship this week. The good news for us is that we don’t have to write about much of it because it didn’t particularly affect the top of the table. The good news for you is that we therefore won’t

< 1 minute readThe County Championship table is slightly canted by the fact that five teams didn’t play this week. It’s week two. It was time to make things a little more opaque for anyone trying to follow the competition. 1st – Middlesex Middlesex stay top after beating Derbyshire. There were four wickets

2 minute readInternational cricket matches are now so frequent that you can forget that those involved are in any way exceptional. We like the early part of the season because it generally provides a reminder. In general, we don’t like reminders. We like to leave things indefinitely. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT

2 minute readOur approach to covering the County Championship has always been to strip away all of the fat and flesh and a fair proportion of the bones to leave something manageable. What you do with what’s left is up for debate. Give it to the dog, maybe. Our official editorial stance

2 minute readThe first part of this article looked at how county cricket is followed in the internet age. Let’s now consider the consequences. Pay to view People watch football. That is the main way in which the sport is ‘consumed’. The column inches and phone-ins are also part of the way

3 minute readThe phrase ‘county cricket is an anachronism’ is an anachronism. The domestic game may have seemed irrelevant and redundant in the Eighties and Nineties, but it has chanced across a niche for itself since then. Seemingly against the odds, it has a place in the modern world. Short attention spans

< 1 minute readWe’re going to stay on top of the County Championship this season. They’re not going to evade us by slipping matches in during Test matches or by pretending they’re in the middle of a long spell playing one of the shorter formats when they’re not. We’re staying focused. With that

2 minute readThis article originally began: “Another year, another batch of middling cricketers, one of whom will get picked in some sort of performance squad giving us a very flimsy sense of having been right about something at least once in our life.” What prescience. Yesterday Rikki Clarke was included in a

< 1 minute readWhat are names for? We give things names so that we know what the bloody hell they are. Old Trafford Cricket Ground is going to be known as ‘Emirates Old Trafford’ and as long as we all shorten that to ‘Old Trafford’, there shouldn’t be any problems. Sponsors make a