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September 8, 2016 County cricket / England

City-based T20 and the art of forcing windows

3 minute readIndependent websites are meant to provide a rapid response to news stories, telling the world how things should be based on an unshakeable sense of what is right and what is wrong. However, we long ago concluded that when it came to stories about what might happen to the structure

September 7, 2016 England / Pakistan

‘We played like pretty boys there at one stage’ – Trevor Bayliss

< 1 minute readIt’s been very humid in the North-West these last few days. That probably didn’t have any impact on the outcome of the T20 International between England and Pakistan but we haven’t got much to say about the cricket so thought we’d flesh out this piece by talking about the weather

September 6, 2016 Extras

I Don’t Like Cricket, I Hate It – county attendances and world record scores

2 minute readA semi-regular feature in which we ask Prince Prefab about cricket – even though he hates cricket. As we speak, the team in first place in the County Championship has played 12 matches, won four and drawn eight. What do you make of that? I know what you’re trying to

September 5, 2016 England

England float the idea of picking Haseeb Hameed to see what happens

< 1 minute readThis is what they do nowadays. They say they’re thinking of picking someone as a means of increasing the scrutiny on them and then they see how the player reacts. Earlier in the season, word got out that England were almost certainly going to pick Scott Borthwick. He reacted by

September 4, 2016 County cricket

Yorkshire bear down on Middlesex

2 minute readBefore the latest round of County Championship matches, Yorkshire were five points adrift of Middlesex. NOW THEY’RE ONLY FOUR POINTS BEHIND. Truly, it was the definitive week of this year’s competition. Eight teams were in action and the points accrued ranged from 8 to 11 as everyone drew. Nottinghamshire were

September 2, 2016 England

One major worry about England’s one-day team

< 1 minute readThey aren’t due. Aren’t remotely due. This occurred to us midway through yesterday’s run-chase when they were a few wickets down. While they eventually overhauled Pakistan’s total, that’s only postponing the problem. Yes, there are arguably players who haven’t scored too many runs recently, but unfortunately for them, England aren’t

September 1, 2016 County cricket

Last week’s County Championship news… today!

< 1 minute readSuppose we should try and catch up. We’d left it so long we were thinking about doing a double round-up after the matches taking place at the minute, but then we thought about how long that article would end up being and decided we had to do some nettle grasping.

August 31, 2016 England

Yeah, maybe worth taking a look at him in other formats

2 minute readBoundaries are smaller, the white ball does sod all, fielding restrictions are imposed. There are all sorts of reasons why one-day cricket is different from Tests, but all are of secondary importance to the simple fact that it is. England’s quadruple nelson was built around a record hundred for Alex

August 30, 2016 Extras

A quite possibly harrowing development involving a car number plate

< 1 minute readBert writes: It’s been months now since The Revered One departed this plane of existence and ascended to the Sky (Sports studio). Such elevation cannot but affect a man, but I must say I had thought that Robert the Great would be immune, that he would be able to maintain

August 29, 2016 County cricket

What Jason Gillespie taught us as Yorkshire coach

< 1 minute readJason Gillespie’s leaving Yorkshire at the end of the season. Disappointingly, he never picked up the accent. We always thought that Gillespie would make a terrible coach on the grounds that he did a really bad job of explaining his nickname in a TV interview in about 2003. He has