< 1 minute read We did a piece for Cricinfo. Almost inevitably it features Rob Key. The surprising part is that we had never previously submitted a Rob Key article to them. We have a 100% strike rate when it comes to submitting articles about Rob Key to Cricinfo. They are clearly receptive…
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Meet Darren Gough
< 1 minute read This is the second competition to meet a cricketer. It is appearing here largely because we want to publish a picture of Darren Gough with a pork pie in his hand. The competition is over at The Mirror. The prize is actually pretty damn good: tickets to the first two
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< 1 minute read It’s probably the World Twenty20 and the Ashes, but we’re getting an insane number of press releases sent to us these days. Today we’re going to tell you about two separate competitions where you can meet a cricketer. This is the first one. It is classy. Sachin Tendulkar is doing
Continue readingCricinfo’s new design
< 1 minute read Cricinfo has changed. This is likely to be of at least some significance to you as someone who follows cricket online. What’s your opinion on the change? ESPN The first thing that struck us is that Cricinfo has been ‘acquired’ by ESPN. You have to say ‘acquired’. We don’t know
Continue readingWhat I Love About Cricket by Sandy Balfour | book review
4 minute read You have to write in some detail when you do a book review, but in our eyes there are two main types of books. There are books that you enjoy and there are books that you have to force yourself to read. We enjoyed What I Love About Cricket and
Continue readingJrod’s book
< 1 minute read He claims it’s got better spelling and grammar than the website, but he’s put ‘disrepsective’ on the page where he’s selling the thing, so do you trust him on that? The writer of Cricket With Balls gives us The Year Of The Balls 2008: a cricket disrespective. Part with your
Continue readingNice cricket T-shirts
< 1 minute read Take a look at our current range of cricket T-shirts Football supporters love wearing their team’s shirt to show their allegiance. The same thing’s never really happened with cricket shirts. This is largely because the majority of one-day shirts look like football shirts and cricket supporters don’t generally want to
Continue readingEoin Morgan does something mental with his cricket bat
< 1 minute read We saw this plastered across Jrod’s Balls yesterday. It’s Eoin Morgan doing something quite ridiculous in the name of batting. It’s pretty impressive, but is he really that good? He can play that shot well enough in those circumstances, but how well would he bat with his upper arms tied
Continue readingCricket headlines with puns in them
< 1 minute read There’s a brilliant pun-based board game from the Eighties called You Must Be Joking which must be adored by cricket headline writers. Those guys just can’t let a pun pass them by. We describe that game as ‘brilliant’, but actually it was anything but. The full title was You Must
Continue readingBat For The Draw (Cricket Top Trumps)
< 1 minute read Remember Top Trumps? Course you do. Picking a category and hoping that the number on your card’s higher than the number on your opponent’s card. What could be more thrilling? We’ve got cricket Top Trumps on the site now. Repetitive and totally unsociable – it’s the perfect King Cricket game.
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