Quiz question of the day (Walt comes good)

Well, it’s only taken a week but finally someone has come up with the correct answer. The thing linking the Test match ground in Dunedin with our favourite weather-challenged ground in the north, Old Trafford, is, indeed, the weather. They are the only two grounds to have attempted to stage two Tests that have been abandoned [...]

Another trivial thought about KP

Shouldn’t Jason Gallian get a recall?

Some trivial thoughts about KP

Does anyone think that this appointment is a very smart move from a PR point of view. I have my £83 Oval ticket sitting in my kitchen drawer and, if it wasn’t for the fact that I’ll be attending with a friend who rarely gets to see live cricket, I might have been tempted to [...]

Ch-ch-ch-changes (but not many of them)

Well, so much for the new broom then. Not a surprise selection among em, unless you count Samit Patel’s inclusion in the one-day squad (again trailed by Reverse Sweep only hours ago) and Matt Prior’s recall to the same.
Owais Shah must wonder what he has to do to get a chance now that Ravi Bopara has [...]

New broom needed to (reverse) sweep clean

You might think, after my tirade against England’s under-performing batsmen on the third afternoon of the last Test, that I would be basking in the resignation of captain Michael Vaughan, and lauding our powers-that-be for having the foresight to signal a serious change in outlook.
Of course, I won’t be. Not only has Vaughan been one of [...]

Time for a new captain, openers, middle order…

It just gets worse doesn’t it: England have now lost four wickets, of which only one has actually been got out – Strauss.
It really is time to dump these wasters. As I said in my last piece, the thinking is completely muddled. To think purely in positive terms ia a sign of mental weakness, not [...]

England’s default modes a result of muddled thinking

I think it is time that Sky’s commentators and assorted cricket experts stopped treating us all like idiots. England have two default modes: totally negative or madly positive – and the second of these is seen as a good thing: at least Vaughan, or whoever, has come out there “with a positive attitude.” Never mind [...]