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May 12, 2011 Extras

Floodlit Test cricket – angry or amazed?

< 1 minute readAmazed. While looking for an image to accompany this post, we discovered that we’d already covered this subject once before. Still, that never normally stops us, so let’s plough on. Give the people what they want That seems a sensible way to market your sport. In England, people don’t particularly

May 10, 2011 County cricket

Remember Alex Loudon?

< 1 minute readPosh bloke. Played cricket. Retired in favour of a career in ‘business’. Well, apparently he’s even posher than we had suspected. Poshness is largely beyond our comprehension. If you turn your nose up at food that’s been on the floor, you fall into our ‘posh’ category and we struggle to

May 9, 2011 Regulars

A cricket sign

< 1 minute readNe says: “I saw this.” We asked where it was taken. He said: “In Cardiff. I think.” We asked if he had anything else to add. Ne added that it was taken “in a park”.

May 9, 2011 England

Craig Kieswetter dominating second-class cricket

< 1 minute readYou have to understand that we’re not criticising Craig Kieswetter. Our issues are with how easily people are impressed and with county cricket in general. Craig Kieswetter scored a hundred again yesterday. Well played Craig. That’s two in a week so SURELY he’s ready to play for England now. Well,

May 6, 2011 County cricket

Everyone point at Warwickshire and laugh

< 1 minute readBecause that’s how you fold. It’s not so much the being bowled out for 97 on a pitch of kofte bhuna spiciness, it’s the Lancashire bowling figures their middle and lower order so generously created: Simon Kerrigan – five wickets for seven runs Gary Keedy – three wickets for two

May 6, 2011 England

England Test captaincy play-off

< 1 minute readSo Alastair Cook’s an England captain (one-day internationals) and Stuart Broad’s an England captain (Twenty20). But which one will go on to become the REAL England captain – the one who’s in charge of the Test team? Is this really the way to do it. Is this really the plan

May 5, 2011 County cricket

County cricket headline generator

< 1 minute readHowe zat, the sports sub-editors of the nation will forever be in your debt for this:

May 4, 2011 England

Wicketkeeper scores hundred

< 1 minute readThat is all it takes. Craig Kieswetter hasn’t really scored runs in quite some time, but he’s a decent batsman and sooner or later he was going to put that right. Today he made 117 and our first thought was that there would be some knee-jerk media coverage. Sure enough,

May 3, 2011 Match report

Interstate competition, Bhawaripatnam v Konta at Jagdalpur – match report

3 minute readGed Ladd writes: Bunty is a big cheese in Jagdalpur – he and our guide Jolly’s family have just opened this new Bastar Jungle Resort and we were their first English guests. Soon chat turned to cricket. “Oh you like cricket”, said Bunty. “You must visit my hotel in town

May 2, 2011 County cricket

The Robin Hoods lead the Stephen Tomkinsons

< 1 minute readHmm. We might abandon our plan to give every county new, ever-changing nicknames deriving from the names of famous people from the respective areas. It’s not so much that using a different nickname in every post will be confusing – we’ve no problem with that – it’s just that we