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May 28, 2014 Extras

We’re a bit disappointed if we’re honest

< 1 minute readWe honestly thought that someone would have left some sort of tirade in the comments section of our latest article for Cricinfo, but alas, it’s mostly just confusion. We demand a tirade! Fortunately, on Twitter someone said: “hey u never always boss nd god sachin” which might be a tirade.

May 27, 2014 Match report

Middlesex v Nottinghamshire day three – match report

3 minute readGed writes: Early season, I always try to take in a day of county cricket with my old friend, Charley “The Gent” Malloy. It helps us both to get over those winter withdrawal symptoms. Charley has his favourite place to sit at the start of play – “Death Row” right

May 25, 2014 England

We didn’t see any of today’s match

< 1 minute readNot one minute of it. We logged onto the internet this evening, saw a headline about it, thought: “Ooh, that sounds juicy,” and then went and looked up the scorecard. Top stuff. Top, top stuff. Well played, England. We take it this is still the transitional period then? Not quite

May 22, 2014 England

The unpredictable flames of England’s one-day batting

< 1 minute readIt’s funny how things change. Time was, England’s one-day batting started with a bang/Banger and then burnt out. Nowadays they light tinder, wait patiently while the kindling gently crackles and then chuck on some logs which have spent eight months marinating in petrol right at the end. The first scenario

May 22, 2014 Australia / County cricket

Middlesex are slightly top

< 1 minute readAfter whipping the first division’s whipping boys, Northamptonshire, with their whipping boy whipping whip, Middlesex are now 19 points ahead of Yorkshire and 22 ahead of Sussex, both of whom have a game in hand. Yorkshire would need to win to go top. Sussex would need to really, really handsomely

May 21, 2014 County cricket

So Harry Gurney then?

2 minute readThere have been times when we’ve thought we’d learn to come up with better headlines, but we’ve since concluded that it’s just one of those things we’re never going to be very good at. They say you should work on your weaknesses, but often this is just inordinately time consuming

May 20, 2014 England

English spin bowler takes wickets

< 1 minute readNo, honestly. An actual spin bowler as well, not just a batsman specialising in round-arm dob. It was the second division, but these are desperate times – we have to make the most of whatever we can find. We’re basically Wombles. The spinner in question is Monty Panesar and at

May 19, 2014 County cricket

Middle ground news

< 1 minute readWe’re not quite sure how to tackle the issues of the day, so in time-honoured tradition, we’re not bothering. At one extreme, we’ve got the T20 Blast. We watched Friday night’s televised game and kind of felt we should say something about it, but then we didn’t because the weather

May 16, 2014 County cricket / Extras

The Shire Horse

< 1 minute readWe’ve another thing. It’s a fortnightly column for All Out Cricket called The Shire Horse. It’s non-serious, so you don’t have to sigh and roll your eyes at our making an attempt to ‘say something’. We hope you’re okay with the fact that we’re increasingly linking to stuff we’ve written

May 15, 2014 Extras

Matt Prior’s reduced weight jogging

< 1 minute read“I believe it’s jogging – or yogging. It might be a soft J, I’m not sure. But apparently you just run for an extended period of time.” Cricinfo today. We’ve written about anti-gravity for them. They seemed okay with that. Needless to say, Graham Gooch’s moustache gets a mention as