< 1 minute read While wearing a stupid hat. [This post used to contain a picture of Sourav wearing an East 17 hat while signing autographs at this point. Annoyingly, we can’t find it now.] No joke. We just really like this picture. Don’t make eye contact, Sourav. Write something dismissive as well. That’ll
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No Holds Barred Cricket
< 1 minute read No Holds Barred Cricket is a form rarely played these days. It was introduced in the mid-Nineties as a means of injecting a little bit more excitement into the one-day game. Rather frighteningly and contradictorily, the rules are ‘there are no rules’. No Holds Barred Cricket featured large amounts of
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 readingPaul Collingwood and Graeme Swann engage in some combat mime sparring
< 1 minute read Combat mime is a form of theatrical art whereby two combatants battle one another by expressing certain physical actions without sound. Here Paul Collingwood and Graeme Swann are locked in a stirring head-to-head, where both combatants are doing ‘the window’. Shortly after this picture was taken, Paul Collingwood opened his
Continue readingCarlo and Granville being conspicuously indifferent on the field of play
2 minute read Miriam says: Now that I know you’re still doing animal posts, here are some pictures I took of the cats a little while ago. I tried to play cricket with them, but they were uninterested. In fact, they were indifferent. In FACT, they made such a point of making their
Continue readingStrauss being conspicuously indifferent to Strauss’s omission
< 1 minute read Lemon Bella has the latest on Strauss’s omission from the England squad: “Here is a picture of StraussCat being indifferent to Strauss (again). It means you can get two posts out of the Andrew Strauss announcement, instead of just the one.” “You’d think in this time of crisis his namesake
Continue readingMatthew Hayden attaches a mirror to the back of his bat
< 1 minute read It’s to more closely monitor the ageing process. ‘Still a few wisps of hair at the front there. Not time to retire yet’.
Continue readingCaptain fails to learn second fielding position
< 1 minute read “And you: You go and field at, er, slip.”
Continue readingGraeme Swann fails to conquer his bail addiction
< 1 minute read For years Graeme Swann has secretly suffered from a rare and debilitating disease. Graeme is addicted to bails. Graeme’s been through a number of treatments – enforced withdrawal, hypnosis, various types of medication – but in the end he just has to accept it. He’s a bail addict and he’ll
Continue readingAndrew Strauss given out ‘hunchback at slip’
< 1 minute read Pakistan here successfully appeal for the little-known mode of dismissal ‘hunchback at slip’. As he delivers the ball, Mohammad Sami notices that his team mates have smuggled Quasimodo into the first slip position and asks the question of the umpire. This means of dismissal was removed from the laws later
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