< 1 minute read Dear Kent, Instead of selling ‘Spitfires geometry sets’ and Kent clipboards, phone-chargers and ‘golf towels’, why not stock a few Rob Key mugs? Eh? Maybe make a bob or two. We’ve even come up with a new motto for you all as you busy yourselves putting non-resilient transfers of Rob
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Rob Key to continue as Kent captain
< 1 minute read Not news exactly, more the reporting of the status quo, but if you’re the kind of website that publishes pictures of Rob Key as a pie in the sky, then you’re the kind of website that reports on the status quo – insofar as it relates to Rob Key. Kent’s
Continue readingBowlers forced to wrap their fingers round pink balls
< 1 minute read There are some things you just have to do and making a ‘pink balls’ joke is one of those things. Pink balls are going to be tested in second XI matches next year with a view to using them in Twenty20 cricket the following summer and in one-day internationals after
Continue readingThe pie in the sky
< 1 minute read The Count Of Montetwisto writes: “One merry summer’s day I was out walking m’ whippets, as one does, and happened across a field of golden crop. I drew a hearty toke upon my pipe and took in the halcyon vista and thought to document it for you all.” What relevance
Continue readingAndrew Strauss and Paul Nixon execute worst ever high-five
< 1 minute read Strauss has at least got the basics right, but he has neglected to correctly align himself with the recipient of the five. Nixon, for his part, has fived himself in a last ditch attempt to salvage the five. His anguished expression betrays his true emotions however.
Continue readingMichael Vandort irritates Australia for a short while
< 1 minute read The BBC called it ‘an easy win’ for Australia, but since when has beating Sri Lanka by an innings been easy? It’s not easy getting Michael Vandort out, certainly. Michael Vandort – or Michael Graydon Vandort as we might start calling him from now on (because that’s his name) –
Continue readingYuvraj Singh and his ten mates beat Pakistan
< 1 minute read Most reports of the third one-day international between India and Pakistan seem to have Yuvraj Singh down as the match-winner. In any report there has to be one guy who won the match, but that’s never the full story. All eight Indian batsmen who came to the crease got into
Continue readingMike Hussey and Michael Clarke do that Australian thing
< 1 minute read Yes, they stand on the beach, hurling a boomerang round a bemused kangaroo with Men At Work blaring out in the background, all the while continually telling you how rubbish everything is in England. No, it’s the other thing, grinding cricket opponents into miserable submission. 242-3 overnight becomes 551-4 declared
Continue readingShahid Afridi the right man in the right place at the right time does the right thing
2 minute read You need two runs a ball. Who do you want at the crease? Of course only one nation are lucky/unfortunate enough to have the unusual, though not inconsiderable, talents of Shahid Afridi at their disposal: Pakistan. Midway through this match, we were thinking to ourself that this Pakistan side aren’t
Continue readingSachin Tendulkar – nervous in the nineties?
< 1 minute read No-one in the history of cricket – NO-ONE – has scored more international hundreds than Sachin Tendulkar. 78 times he’s got into three figures. 78! That’s loads! So why in the name of all that is good and pure is he suddenly getting out in the nineties all time? In
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