< 1 minute read Neil has been earnestly telling Test Match Special listeners how sandwiches are 99p after 7pm in the shop near where he’s staying. TMS make a grave, grave error every time they don’t use this man for a match.
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Steve Harmison batting
< 1 minute read We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again using exactly the same words, because we aren’t going to improve on this: For Steve Harmison, every innings is like a brief fairground ride with ghosts intermittently leaping out at you, only occasionally the ghosts give you sandwiches, but sometimes the
Continue readingCan Pietersen affix England’s balls to the magic wall long-term?
< 1 minute read Before this match Graeme Smith said that Kevin Pietersen might be successful in the short-term via the ‘balls to the wall approach’, so that’s what must have happened today. But before half of you try and apply this colourful philosophy to your everyday lives, Graeme Smith also had a warning.
Continue readingCricket returns to terrestrial television
< 1 minute read Rejoice poverty-stricken victims of Sky. Cricket’s going to be free again. Top Welsh terrestrial station S4C have bought the rights to five Glamorgan matches. All the other stuff’s still on Sky, mind. A spokeswoman for the BBC explained their decision not to bid for any of the 35 packages available:
Continue readingWe don’t hate Kevin Pietersen
2 minute read There you go. We’ve nailed our colours to the mast and those assorted greys and beiges that you can see fluttering in the breeze indicate our lack of hatred for Kevin Peter Pietersen (yes, that’s his real middle name). More than that, we don’t quite get why so many people
Continue readingDon’t totally discard Michael Vaughan
2 minute read “The best thing for me is to try and get back to being best batsmen I can be.” Fair point. If they didn’t have to drop you, you wouldn’t be losing the captaincy and if you scored more runs, maybe the series would have gone better. Michael Vaughan now knows
Continue readingPaul Collingwood a gritty fighter full of character
< 1 minute read Paul Collingwood is made entirely out of balls. It must be downright murder to walk, eat or do pretty much anything. To get a hundred in what seemed likely to be your last Test innings is one thing. To do it with a six is quite another. Kevin Pietersen was
Continue readingFlintoff to Kallis
< 1 minute read We don’t know about you, but we’re glad Aleem Dar turned down that blatantly out lbw appeal against Kallis. What followed was as electric as that innocuous-looking, ankle-high, three-holed square of plastic in the corner there. It was proper fast bowling; the kind you just don’t get in the shorter
Continue readingCome in number six – your time is up
2 minute read Shove Michael Vaughan down to number six – that’s where England keep their worst batsman. Paul Collingwood seems likely to lose his place. He has another innings, but does he honestly look like a man who’ll make use of it? It’s the latest chapter in England’s number six saga and
Continue readingBack to the important stuff
< 1 minute read We’re generally in favour of Twenty20, but one downside is that it seems to necessitate the reading of one too many articles about cricket politics. Cricket politics is dull and it eats into time that could better be spent keeping abreast of developments in the monkey kingdom. Hopefully someone’s on
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