Early spring. It’s chilly, there’s sleet in the air, you’re still wearing your scarf to the local pub, and the never ending football season is entering its overhyped ‘run in’. It can only mean one thing: the county championship season is upon us. And it will be with us until the end of September – except for that inconvenient hiatus in the warmest months when white ball cricket takes over like a plague of locusts and consumes everything that’s wholesome...
The ECB Don’t Need The Hundred. They Need To Be Bold With The Blast
Worcestershire triumphed at Edgbaston on Saturday, defeating the mighty Lancashire in the semis and then much fancied Sussex (Jofra Archer and all) in the final. It was a fairytale in many ways because Worcs have never been to finals days before, had the youngstest team in the competition, and were missing their overseas batsman Callum Ferguson. Worcs’ stars were mostly young players who’ve come through the ranks: ice-cool keeper Ben Cox, and 20 year old medium mystery bowler Pat...
The Spin, Issue 3
The first Lancashire fanzine for more than 25 years has proved to be a great success. Last week we published the third and final edition of the season and hope to reach more than 2,000 readers. Sales at Lancashire’s crunch game with Worcs at Southport were amazing. It’s been a hard road with a lot of mileage put in on a shoestring budget but the response has spurred us on when it would have been easy to get disheartened. The second issue required a second print run of 300 to meet demand...
The Monday Mushroom
First of all we should congratulate Hants on their splendid win in the Royal London Cup Final at Lord’s. It was a pretty comfortable win in the end. Hants started the game strongly with the bat, and Kent never really looked like chasing the runs. Rilee Rossouw made a fantastic century, with key contributions from young Tom Alsop and not-to-young Sam Northeast, and although Daniel Bell Drummond made 86, and Sam Billings a defiant 75, the writing was always on the wall. Hants just had too...
The White Horse Awakens
Today’s article comes courtesy of cricket poet Marco Jackson. He’s been following Kent over recent weekends and has spotted several signs suggesting something special’s brewing down south. Does that pass for an acceptable alliteration, Marco? The following piece comes in two stages: a love letter to Kent in general, and then a tribute to Daniel Bell-Drummond, a player who has really caught Marco’s eye. Enjoy folks … Kent That team you can hear throwing pebbles at...
The May Marriage
Today we have an article from Paul Potter, who is one of our Australian readers. He’s been following our recent discussions about the county championship with interest and has a rather interesting take on things. He certainly offers food for thought and, quite frankly, it’s good to see that people from other countries have faith in our domestic product. More than the ECB do anyway. Over to you, Paul … The IPL features many a full toss, but it is not a tournament for The Full...
