Dear mainstream cricket journalists, For the last ten months the likes of us have given most of you a very hard time. And rightly so. You’ve let your readers down. When the Pietersen affair began, it was immediately obvious the ECB’s story did not hold water. It hardly required the nous of a Woodward and Bernstein to sense a cover-up. Paul Downton and Giles Clarke were dissembling, obfuscating, and downright fibbing. They have perpetrated a great deceit, and their conduct strongly...
In the name of God, go
Things have been moving quite quickly today – although whether events are leading to any kind of proper resolution remains to be seen. We know now that the Dark Lord will deign to speak to the media tomorrow. Already our expectations have been lowered. What was first rumoured as a press conference to address the Moores/Cook balls-up (or even to announce the latter’s resignation) is now being described by the Hack Pack as a long-arranged chat about his first year in the job. Which...
