Ah, the England ODI team will become better!

The England and Wales Cricket Board have confirmed there will not be a domestic 50-over competition from next season onwards. Source: Cricket365 As if the above statement isn’t seriously fucked up, here’s what the ECB has to say about the axing of the 50-over competition… The ECB do not believe this will necessarily weaken England’s [...]

Gerrie Snyman for England?

It’s a well known fact that England really don’t have a lot of big hitters…. Was just looking through cricinfo and saw this article on Gerrie Snyman, a Namibian dude who has played 35 first-class matches and scored 2285 runs at a strike rate of 72. Limited overs cricket: 1951 runs @ a SR of [...]

Giles Clarke and the ECB have…

…, in the words of satirist Andy Zaltzman, …emerged from this with egg on its face, in its hair, all over its jacket, and dribbling apologetically onto its shoes. Well, I should have known that something was up with Al when I read that his financial ventures are recession-proof. It’s now all in the open. [...]

News roundup for today!

Wow, within about 3 hours, there’s been a surfeit of some quite big news. First things first, Younus (or Younis, not really sure!) Khan has been made the captain after some really dismal performances by Malik. It’s a really big relief because Pakistan have so much talent, I’m often so envious and wonder why SL [...]

England are going!

Well well, am I surprised? Not really! Why? Come on, did anyone, for a moment, actually think that anyone would really skip this tour? OK, now that the security report from Reg Dickason was positive, everyone’s hugging and kissing each other. If it was negative, would the players have actually skipped the tour? This is [...]