< 1 minute read After scores of 118, 65 not out and 74 last week, today’s 99 not out marks the moment when we move away from admiring an exceptional young Antipodean talent and towards being sick to the back teeth, the front teeth and tonsils of a winnetty-faced, cork-hatted bastard. Phillip Hughes is
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Paul Horton’s first one-day hundred
< 1 minute read Pakistan v Australia? The England Test squad? The IPL? No, we’re going to cover an early season one-day match between Lancashire and Northamptonshire that happened at the weekend and we’re going to cover it by saying ‘Paul Horton hit a hundred’ and nothing more. Paul Horton hit a hundred. Join
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2 minute read Over the years, we’ve often asked ourself: ‘Could Rob Key actually be any more awesome?’ Always the answer has been the same: ‘Not really. Only if he managed to clean bowl Northamptonshire’s David Willey.’ Finally, after years of waiting, David Willey actually started playing first-class cricket this season. Kent faced
Continue readingCounty cricketers to watch in 2009
< 1 minute read What county cricketers are worth watching in 2009? These ones: Liam Plunkett Mark Davies Steve Davies Adil Rashid Tim Bresnan Will Smith Simon Jones Paul Horton You can watch other cricketers bat and bowl if you want, but you’d be far better off watching Mark Davies do his rehab or
Continue readingSteve Davies goes one better
< 1 minute read Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire. It’s Chris Read v Steve Davies in a battle for third or fourth place in the England wicketkeeping hierarchy. Game on! Steve Davies clearly said to himself: ‘Whatever Chris Read can do, I can go one better.’ Fortunately for Steve Davies, Chris Read hit 125, so ‘one
Continue readingMark Cosgrove flobs back into county cricket
< 1 minute read Sometimes it’s okay to make use of the verb ‘to flob’. This usage is entirely justified. While the world trains its gaze on Fake IPL Player or the IPL itself – or Ian Bell or Michael Vaughan or Philip Hughes – while the world trains its gaze on those events,
Continue readingThe worst batsman in England
< 1 minute read That Ian Bell, eh? Rubbish, isn’t he? First he cashes in on a flat deck at Taunton and expects everybody to be all impressed. Then he follows it up with another hundred against the same opponents, as if that’s somehow proving something. You can’t play against Somerset every week, Ian.
Continue readingJames Hildreth hits a MASSIVE hundred
< 1 minute read James Hildreth actually hit three hundreds in succession without being dismissed against the same set of irritated and increasingly despairing bowlers. This is our way of saying that he hit 303 not out against Warwickshire off 338 balls. This time last year, we spent a long time deliberating over whether
Continue readingPaul Horton, Lancashire – one to watch in 2009
< 1 minute read Lancashire’s batsmen were full-on toss last year. Pretty much the sole exception was Paul Horton. Paul Horton is an opening batsman and that’s a position where Lancashire have been short of class for a while now. He’s also 26, which is pretty reassuring in a side which has had a
Continue readingIan Bell hits a big hundred
< 1 minute read That title’s tongue-in-cheek. You know that, right? You do now. Ian Bell hit 172 for Warwickshire as part of his bid to return to the England side. It’s a handy start and we’d be tempted to get ever-so-slightly agitated about it, if it weren’t for the fact that he scored
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