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We’ve lived near Manchester Airport for most of our life and we have never seen a light in the sky quite like the one we saw last night. It was off-white, indistinct and almost certainly an alien spacecraft.
Aliens have, quite underst...(more)

We ate some sauerkraut last night and there was something not quite right about it. We’ve not had the jar all that long and sauerkraut keeps, so it’s a bit weird.
Most of you will have reached the obvious conclusion upon hearin...(more)

We were driving home tonight and one side of the road was closed, quite possibly as a result of the earth being thrown off its axis a bit last week.
There were so many people rushing home to catch the last three overs of the day that not al...(more)

The County Championship will end this week, just so long as the world hasn’t ended before then. The excitement is ripping our reality apart at the seams.
When we got up this morning, we weren’t at all surprised to find that our...(more)

We made ourself a cup of tea this morning, we started drinking it and then we went upstairs for a bit. When we came back down, the mug was empty. No-one else was in the house.
We know what you’re going to say. You’re going to sa...(more)

We’re committed to documenting the effects of the climax of the County Championship, but we’re really starting to fear for our life now.
Last night, we heard screaming outside our house. It was these two girls and they were havi...(more)

Okay, we don’t want you to worry, but things are really getting out of hand now. The nation is going FULLY MENTAL as we approach the climax of the County Championship. You’d better brace yourself, because the story that follows...(more)

Maybe you were pipe-cleaner modelling or carrying out wig maintenance.
Here’s what you missed:
Vinay Kumar seemingly wearing clogs
MS Dhoni keeping without a hat on
Alastair Cook slogging a single to cow corner off the back foot abou...(more)

We took a walk alongside the canal last night. At one point, a barge went past and the guy at the tiller was clearly SUPER EXCITED about the climax of the County Championship. He just had that air about him.
With the next round of matches ...(more)

Up and down the country, people are SUPER EXCITED about the climax of the County Championship.
We were in the supermarket at the weekend and we saw this woman shopping with her kid. You could tell that she was super excited about the County...(more)

Redbacks and Adelaide Strikers spinner Nathan Lyon took 5 for 34 on his Test debut against Sri Lanka.... for preventing me from writing two India posts in a row. Keep going boy, and don’t ever think of leaving SA.BTW here’s Grey...(more)

I am writing this after day 1 of a certain Edgbaston Test, and in a state of utter crabbiness and mental disarray. Although my brain is temporarily being inhabited by a little curry-munching caterpillar, at least for the duration of this to...(more)

Zimbabwe v Bangladesh, Only Test[scorecard]Majestic. Good, thrilling and entertaining Test cricket. Attitude, style and a very happy end.If Zimbabwe’s return to Test cricket was muffins the recipe would look as follows:Ingredients:&nb...(more)
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[galleries] [match reports] [tournament home on cricinfo][table and scorecards Group A] (Austria, Croatia, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Italy, Norway)[table and scorecards Group B] (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Jersey)[results and sco...(more)

("Only warriors fall on the battlefield")This is what my friend Zeeshan replied, when I told him about yesterday’s saddening defeat. Now I am smiling, somewhat happier... how right he is! Nevertheless, we are are now left in the situa...(more)

[galleries] [match reports] [tournament home on cricinfo][table and scorecards Group A] (Austria, Croatia, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Italy, Norway)[table and scorecards Group B] (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Jersey)Ball-by-ball co...(more)
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Despite occasional accusations of journalism, we do not consider ourself part of the British press. We’d like to take this opportunity to distance ourself from two specific themes that are currently appearing in the cricket pages.
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Faith is what you need when you don’t have facts. More accurately, faith is what you resort to when you don’t have facts – ‘need’ isn’t the right word. Faith is a way of sticking your head in the sand and...(more)
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