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April 26, 2016 County cricket

How often do you get ‘snow stopped play’?

< 1 minute readWe’ve attended a County Championship match on a double trousers day before. Sitting still, steadily losing heat throughout the day, you don’t quite realise how cold you are until your bone marrow turns solid. You don’t know what that feels like? You’ll know it when it happens. Ravi Rampaul didn’t

April 25, 2016 Match report

Lord’s net practice – journey report

3 minute readDumbo the Suzuki Jimny writes: Just a few days after Ged and Daisy went to the Lord’s Ashes Test and got all confused about etiquette, Ged asked me to take him out and about for the working day, to culminate at Lord’s, The Home of Cricket, for a net with

April 23, 2016 County cricket / England

Rob Key and the art of being selective in one’s giving of shits

< 1 minute readIf you’re wondering where we’ve been, we’ve unfortunately been too busy writing things to write things. One of these written distractions was about Rob Key. Cricinfo gave it the coveted midnight on a Friday slot at the top of the homepage, clearly of a mind that this would be perfect

April 22, 2016 England

Robert Key, the ruddy-faced southern me

5 minute readThis article was first published on Cricinfo in April 2016, but they seem to have deleted it so we’re republishing it. For a fair few years, from the early Nineties onwards, there was a phenomenon in British newspapers where Australian opinions of England cricketers were given greater weight. Seasoned cricket

April 20, 2016 County cricket

A surprisingly small proportion of this last week’s County Championship cricket actually amounted to much

< 1 minute readThe batsmen (and bowlers) of Middlesex, Warwickshire, Yorkshire and Hampshire busied themselves scoring hundreds and double hundreds. Nothing of any real consequence came about as a result of this behaviour. The players representing Lancashire and Nottinghamshire stuck to double figures and that game therefore reached some sort of meaningful conclusion.

April 19, 2016 Extras

A Rob Key themed cryptic crossword

< 1 minute readAlmost certainly the finest Rob Key themed cryptic crossword you will encounter today. Compiled by Bert. As ever, there are no fantastic prizes. You can also download a PDF version here. Click here for the answers.

April 18, 2016 England

This is how you share a Rob Key picture with the world, you bloody idiots

2 minute readRob Key has retired. It is a sad day. We’re going to don a black cardigan instead of a beige one by way of mourning. We will wear it for 221 minutes in tribute to the number of runs Rob once made in a single Test innings. Adam Gilchrist’s highest

April 18, 2016 Match report

England v Australia at Lord’s, day three – match report

3 minute readGed writes: I prepared a splendid picnic, though I say so myself, for me and Daisy to enjoy on the Saturday of the Lord’s Ashes Test. Breakfast muffins stuffed with juicy coriander prawns was the centrepiece of the midday feast. The main event, though, was focaccia-wiches, containing Big Al deLarge’s

April 16, 2016 England

Points mean prizes

2 minute readOr, more accurately, points “may” mean a presentation ceremony (at which something would presumably be presented). This is the barely-reported story that England are looking to implement a points system for the two tours this summer, meaning an all-formats winner could be crowned for each. The Times ran something behind

April 15, 2016 County cricket / England

Is Gary Ballance back?

2 minute readIt’s a reference to a headline pun that’s overused on this website but which isn’t itself a pun. Jokes don’t come much weaker than that. Except for all our other ones. Is Gary Ballance back? Sport is brutally cold and England won’t go into the first Test of the summer