How’s that for a recommendation? That’s a Cricinfo comment about the fifth and final part of our short story set in the not-so-distant future.
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January 20, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Bravo! This is your magnum opus.
That’s not to say that your other opi are magnuless, just that if I was rooting through your oeuvre this is where I would look to find them.
Well done.
January 20, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Glad you were engaged/depressed by it.
January 20, 2012 at 1:57 pm
That really is superb stuff Alex, well done chap!
January 20, 2012 at 3:05 pm
This makes me think of a piece of improve where the audience has requested “A dystopian story about cricket administration in the style of G.K. Chesterton”
January 20, 2012 at 3:28 pm
I refuse to be completely effusive in my praise for this series until Cricinfo re-publish part three so that it is longer than a paragraph and a half long. I’m assuming the article was originally longer than this, and has since been censored by high ranking Kiwi cricket-militia operatives. Until I can read this article in its entirety this series of works sits as either the worst sports administration based dystopian dramatisation I have read or possibly the best.
But how can I know for sure!?
January 20, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve let them know.
January 20, 2012 at 6:07 pm
… and they have sorted it.
January 20, 2012 at 4:08 pm
Nice piece and all that, but would it kill you to throw in a graph or two in your cricinfo articles? A few lines of text and BOOM, a Venn appears out of nowhere and confuses the readers. Imagine that!
January 20, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Very good. Hats off
January 22, 2012 at 9:26 am
Great series – shared with friends, and probably of interest to anyone with a healthy cynicism about “sports marketing.”
January 23, 2014 at 2:04 pm
Sadly, it now appears, prescient.