Saturday 25 January 2014

BOB WILLIS TO MANAGE THE 2017-18 ASHES TOUR


Bob Willis, aka 'Goose', is not a jovial fellow. You may have noticed. He may still be your cup of tea, mind.

Anyway, with this basic premise of dubious comedic value I speculated as to how a Willis-run Aussie tour would pan out. Das Boot Camp.

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TIME TO REGIONALISE COUNTY CRICKET?


A blog for cricinfo's The Cordon postulating that it might be time to create a regional tier to the English domestic first-class cricket structure. 

(I may update this piece with notional XIs.)

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HOW TO SORT OUT THE FLOWER / KP TIFF


A debut piece for the excellent Sabotage Times website in which I set out three not entirely serious suggestions for how they might sort out their widely reported though fervently denied tiff, as well as breaking the extraordinary story as to who will become England's Test player #666...

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MURRAY DARLING AND FRANK WISDOM

A piece for Cricket 365

Two hardcore fans, one Aussie, one Yorkie, discuss the Ashes.


"Oh my, what a debacle it has been! They might has well have been playing in chinos, so relentlessly village has it been. However, as the sage Mr Kipling counseled: 'Would you like a slice of Bakewell tart to take the pain away?' He also said (and I paraphrase), there’s no good reaching for the happy juice just cos you’ve won a game of cricket."