I try to stonewall, bowl leg spin, field in close and sledge relentlessly, but in reality I'm usually out injured. Now retired and trying to coach. Just as rubbish with a pen as with a bat.
Tie-breakers always seem unnecessarily cruel. No matter what method is used, no matter what decision is decided, it always seems unfair in one way or another. And the European Division One Twenty20 tournament, held this month in Jersey, was no exception. Coming into the final day of play, the victors of the two main matches … More Cricket in Jersey: “we’re punching above our weight”
HEAVY HITTING BLOWS, MATE AGAINST MATE, FIGHTING FOR THEIR PRIDE. Well, no. It’s not a Channel 9 State of Origin promo. I’m Dev, my mate’s Dan, and we both write for Mind the Windows! Surely it was only sensible to combine ideas and resources? Actually no, the idea had to come from Dan’s girlfriend. But that’s … More Dev vs Dan: The #ENGvNZ wicket-keepers
When, at the end of the 2003/04 Australian domestic season, Jo Angel decided to retire, a giant presence was leaving the Western Australia ranks. A giant man too, at six-foot six-inches tall. For more than a decade, Angel had been the man WA turned to match after match. The final statistics said it all: 485 … More Jo Angel; ‘It’s a pretty simple game overcomplicated by people’
It’s November 12th, 1991. India are hosting South Africa in the second match of a three-game ODI series. South Africa are playing their first series back from isolation, so the historic occasion isn’t lost on anyone. The Gwailor crowd are cheering their home fans on, with Kris Srikkanth and Navjot Sidhu putting on a fantastic … More Clive Eksteen; ‘they stuck the badge on with glue!’
The Associates need all the help they can get: forget KP, the fate of the Associates in the World Cup is the axing we need to be concerned about. During the World Cup, they showed amazing form throughout. Afghanistan, Scotland, and the UAE all troubled Full Member nations. Ireland beat two of them.
In my first ‘Six Ball Over’ in over six months, Stiaan van Zyl has been kind enough to talk to us about his cricketing career to date. In fact, we even bowled a couple of wides, so we’ve got a nine ball over! Van Zyl made his Test debut in the series against the West … More Nine Ball Over: Stiaan van Zyl
Sports coaches have possibly the most fragile jobs in the world. In all sports, but particularly football and cricket, coaches are the first to have their head on the chopping block after a defeat. Even in the quiet fields of County Cricket, the job of a coach is tenuous at best. Most survive one cycle, … More Building the County Champions: The Mick Newell interview
‘Hot NZ arrive to catch England cold’, reads the ESPNCricinfo headline. Following New Zealand’s recent run of form – World Cup runners up, series wins against the West Indies, Sri Lanka, India, a drawn Test series against Pakistan – the team appears to be shaping nicely to push themselves further up the Test rankings. And … More It’s still Lord’s in May
Part one of Andrew Hall’s interview can be found here, discussing his international career. Part two concentrates on County cricket. Case C-438/00. Held in the fifth chamber of the European Court of Justice, the case was between Deutscher Handballbund eV and Maroš Kolpak. None of that will have made much sense – apart from that … More Andrew Hall: From Cronje to Kolpak (part two)
“Best Team In Europe”, the sign read. In one of the Blarney Army’s greatest moments, that was the placard they unveiled late in the 2015 Cricket World Cup. While England failed miserably, losing to Bangladesh, being slaughtered by New Zealand, Australia, Sri Lanka, and only scraping victories against Scotland and Afghanistan, Ireland were at their … More Bangladesh, from botched to brilliant
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