< 1 minute readCan we just remind you that we also write a Tour de France website. The race starts tomorrow and the first three days promise to be ‘a big deal’ because they’re in the UK. Stage two on Sunday is the one we’re most looking forward to, but we’ll be covering
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Middlesex v Lancashire in the County Championship – match report
3 minute readGed writes: Over Easter, the Lancastrian nephew-in-law, Escamillo Escapillo (EE) and I schemed to meet up for the Middlesex v Lancashire fixture at Lord’s this year, even if we could only manage half-a-day off during the working week. In the flurry of subsequent e-mails and texts, I said that I
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< 1 minute readOver the weekend, Cricinfo published an article of ours about the English hatred of ‘giving it away’ and how it gives rise to a way of batting which is fundamentally unproductive. It’s called Why so passive, England? and it’s another angle on the whole proactive batting thing we’ve been so
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< 1 minute readA bit of housekeeping. We’ve had some of our articles published on other websites. First up, The Shire Horse, our fortnightly thing for All Out Cricket. This week’s edition makes fun of some things that England players have said, has a bit about Lancashire’s batting and then there are the
Continue readingAlastair Cook opts for the end urinal
< 1 minute readDandy Dan writes: I recently met Price for a few beers for the first time since my rather glorious night of drinking with the England cricket team. The glory has somewhat been tainted by the events in the winter, but hey ho. Anyway, I obviously wanted to talk about it
Continue readingMiddlesex v Yorkshire day four – match report
2 minute readGed writes: It was a beautiful sunny day, the London Underground was on strike and I had arranged to work from home. I thought it would be a good idea to head over to Lord’s, catch some of the cricket and catch up with an increasingly large pile of background
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< 1 minute readThat’s what you can expect from our latest knock for All Out Cricket. In the preamble, All Out Cricket have accused us of having a ‘beady eye’ which is pretty much libel – we have two beady eyes and we make use of both of them. We’ve decided not to
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< 1 minute readWe honestly thought that someone would have left some sort of tirade in the comments section of our latest article for Cricinfo, but alas, it’s mostly just confusion. We demand a tirade! Fortunately, on Twitter someone said: “hey u never always boss nd god sachin” which might be a tirade.
Continue readingMiddlesex v Nottinghamshire day three – match report
3 minute readGed writes: Early season, I always try to take in a day of county cricket with my old friend, Charley “The Gent” Malloy. It helps us both to get over those winter withdrawal symptoms. Charley has his favourite place to sit at the start of play – “Death Row” right
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< 1 minute readWe’ve another thing. It’s a fortnightly column for All Out Cricket called The Shire Horse. It’s non-serious, so you don’t have to sigh and roll your eyes at our making an attempt to ‘say something’. We hope you’re okay with the fact that we’re increasingly linking to stuff we’ve written
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