< 1 minute readWe knew he was worth watching this season. He’s currently 19 not out off 88 balls against Nottinghamshire, including a boundary which we damn well hope was an accident. That’s the stuff. That’s why we picked him. Few players have the iron will required to be less entertaining than a
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County cricket – let’s at least try and stay on top of things for a bit
2 minute readFollowing county cricket is not easy. Sooner or later it’ll get away from you and you won’t have a clue what’s going on. It might happen when all your attention is on a Test match or it might happen when they squeeze in two rounds of the County Championship while
Continue readingKing Cricket’s county players to watch in 2012
3 minute readRight, let’s get this over with. First, let’s restate the qualification criteria: Qualified to play for England No established internationals Youngish Playing in the first division of the County Championship Think that’s it. There might be other things. Who knows? Presumably us, but we don’t like to scrutinise the workings
Continue readingLancashire are making a proper balls of their first match
< 1 minute readAt the start of this sentence, Lancashire were 39-4 in their first innings of the season against Sussex. We fully expect five wickets to have fallen before we click publish. We are not unduly concerned by this. Lancashire won the Championship in an odd way. They didn’t generally look like
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< 1 minute readKent batsman, Mike Powell, published this yesterday. For those of us who don’t take in all our information via a telephone, it’s worth rotating our monitors through 90 degrees for. However, just to be clear, we still do not approve of dancing. As a liberated physical expression of joy, it
Continue readingCB40 Final match report
2 minute readSam writes: Saturday morning, late September Cut price tickets through a friend who is a member South West Trains and then the Bakerloo Tesco express for a beer or two First to the Tavern, then to the Warner Down to the toilets with a window in the corner Through which
Continue readingEight counties in the first division of the County Championship?
< 1 minute readEight counties, 14 matches, home and away against everyone else in the division. Yeah, we’d be okay with that. Our official stance is that the second division doesn’t count, so it would seem a bit odd to get all het up about them having some mix-and-match half-arsed fixture list of
Continue readingChris Gayle to play Twenty20 for someone
< 1 minute readIn a not-entirely-surprising move, Chris Gayle has signed to play for Somerset in next season’s Twenty20 Cup. Gayle’s ‘people’ released a statement quoting him as saying: “I’m delighted to be heading to [insert name of cricket team]. Hopefully I can make a key contribution to their T20 campaign this year.”
Continue readingTravel time reclaimed from County Championship
2 minute read“Hi, I’ve only got seven quid. Could you cut 80 per cent of my hair?” Some things have to be done in full. Incompletion is unsatisfactory. As another example, if you have some sort of sports competition, it’s preferable to have everyone competing on an equal footing. If each team
Continue reading2012 Twenty20 Cup schedule
< 1 minute readThere’s little point criticising the 2012 county cricket fixture list. They’d made a report saying how they might change it before it had even been released. That said, we still find the Twenty20 Cup schedule bizarre. They play every day for a month. Then they play quarter finals two-and-a-half weeks
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