2 minute readMaybe not. One of first-class cricket’s finest batsmen may yet get an opportunity to play a second Test having been selected in Australia’s Ashes squad. It just goes to show, if you hang around long enough, the failings of the next generation will eventually earn you the recognition you sort
Continue reading< 1 minute readThe worth of a Twenty20 player cannot be measured via a single innings. That’s a mistake many people make – they confuse aberrations with excellence. It’s therefore worth underlining the sheer inevitability that it would be Chris Gayle who would break the record for the highest individual score in the
Continue reading< 1 minute readTo which the less generous among you might say: “Again?” We have mixed feelings about such jokes because we retain a great deal of affection for Graeme Hick. Many years ago, we spent a great deal of time desperately wishing he would turn the corner and start savaging Test attacks.
Continue reading< 1 minute readThe County Championship table is slightly canted by the fact that five teams didn’t play this week. It’s week two. It was time to make things a little more opaque for anyone trying to follow the competition. 1st – Middlesex Middlesex stay top after beating Derbyshire. There were four wickets
Continue reading2 minute readInternational cricket matches are now so frequent that you can forget that those involved are in any way exceptional. We like the early part of the season because it generally provides a reminder. In general, we don’t like reminders. We like to leave things indefinitely. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT
Continue reading< 1 minute readSince they added extra teams, the IPL now takes even longer to take shape. Relatively speaking, it’s still early days, but thankfully one team is doing badly enough that it is actually worth remarking upon. Step forward Delhi Daredevils. After helping Delhi Daredevils to their feet again, we examined them
Continue reading2 minute readOur approach to covering the County Championship has always been to strip away all of the fat and flesh and a fair proportion of the bones to leave something manageable. What you do with what’s left is up for debate. Give it to the dog, maybe. Our official editorial stance
Continue reading2 minute readMum writes: After an excellent breakfast, KC’s dad and I took a ferry to the mainland where we shared a tuk-tuk with an English couple also bound for the match. Security was tight and I had to take a photo to prove my camera was a camera. It was 45
Continue reading2 minute readThe first part of this article looked at how county cricket is followed in the internet age. Let’s now consider the consequences. Pay to view People watch football. That is the main way in which the sport is ‘consumed’. The column inches and phone-ins are also part of the way
Continue reading3 minute readThe phrase ‘county cricket is an anachronism’ is an anachronism. The domestic game may have seemed irrelevant and redundant in the Eighties and Nineties, but it has chanced across a niche for itself since then. Seemingly against the odds, it has a place in the modern world. Short attention spans
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