The “first think I thought about” is more poetic, anyway.

It was great that he consistently felt moved to offer up the case for the defence because it meant that we didn’t have to.

Unmitigated hate is not a good look, Felix.

Actually the most enlightening/enjoyable thing about the Ridiculous Michael Clarke Special is Adam Collins’s circumlocutions about Michael Clarke, exposing Collins’s cognitive dissonance about his subject to the scrutiny of listeners who had turned up for ridiculousness.

On that point, I really enjoyed his commentary during the T20’s and I think that he is better than the likes of Vaughn and some of the other TMS. To be honest I think TMS and a few commentary teams need a few more shake ups. There are so many active players that they can call upon for commentary duties and I think that the active players that do commentate, commentate better as they are more up to date with the game.

I also hate Vaughn’s strong opinions. I think Jimmy Anderson should shred a image of him as well as R Ashwin.
I also hate Tom Curran for running out Livingstone in the second T20.

I look forward to hearing the Ridiculous Clarke podcast once my feet metaphorically touch the ground later today/over the weekend.

In his own (very different) way, Stuart Broad must be a candidate for a Ridiculous Ashes special – there is something extraordinary about the many and varied ridiculous things that have happened around him over the years. Unlike Clarke, though, Broad is proving to be a very good, albeit rookie, summariser/broadcaster – I hope he perseveres with broadcasting as he starts to develop his post-playing career.

We don’t know if he’s remembered for specific mishaps even, so much as he’s just under-remembered given his record. Or he’s remembered for being somehow unpopular.

A third voice is always good, but given we struggle to find a time when two of us are free, it’ll be the exception rather than the rule.

I recently watched a ‘clip’ on youtube of Jack Leach’s and Ben Stokes’ full final wicket partnership at Headingly in 2019 and when he is commentating on that, it is bad enough to make you want to vomit. #opposethevaccine, no not that, #opposemichaelclarke.

ps. #supportthevaccine

Argh, should be “the first thing I thought about”….

The funny thing is, the first think I thought about when I saw that it was an episode about Michael Clarke was ‘he went on a ridiculous run of scoring for a year or two, didn’t he’, but the consensus seemed to be that his various other antics/spats/mishaps, some of which I had either completely forgotten or was perhaps unaware of at the time, had overshadowed this.