Comments on: Ollie Robinson has been given a golden opportunity to develop a new ailment

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 11:10:04 +0000

In reply to daneel. Jayzus.

By: daneel

daneel — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 02:50:52 +0000

Meanwhile, in local(?) cricket news:

https://twitter.com/milcricket/status/1564061856196599808

Shove it up your arse! Who’s the best club in the world!?

There was even a serious article written recently about local cricket:

https://www.theurbanist.org/2022/08/13/elevate-cricket-in-incoming-bellevue-kirkland-and-seattle-parks-levies/

I should try to get to a game over there but it’s not really in Seattle, it’s over on the east side with with the Microsofties. I don’t venture over there often. Plus I’m really quite invested in the baseball team being actually half-decent for the first time in forever. They just decided to give a (very very good) 21 year old an 18 year contract that might be worth like half a billion dollars.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 09:45:08 +0000

In reply to Bert. Everything seemed to turn out OK for you in the end Bert. Must have been a good few days!

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 15:38:49 +0000

Last player to score a century and take five wickets in a Test for England?

That’s right – Mark Butcher!

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 19:41:14 +0000

In reply to A P Webster. Division 2 arguably has more than its share of low-scoring shoot-outs.

By: A P Webster

A P Webster — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:03:00 +0000

In other news, page 28 of the ‘High Performance Review’ proposal (https://resources.ecb.co.uk/ecb/document/2022/08/25/5ed38d62-72c0-45d3-9514-aa3b310ca067/Men-s-High-Performance-Review-Consultation-Material-FCCs.pdf) seems to go against the ‘Second Division runs don’t count’ idea…

By: Ged

Ged — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 07:09:22 +0000

In reply to Bert.

I find that eating, drinking and just bring with friends at the cricket ground ameliorates most but not all of the stress, Bert.

Some of us are still suffering from the form of PTSD associated with witnessing (or in my case mostly, in the style of a Greek tragedy, learning that devastation is occurring just out of sight) carnage last week.

In short, i’m finding it hard to sympathise with your plight, Bert, but sincerely hope you have an enjoyable and stress-light day.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:11:28 +0000

In reply to Bert. Don’t worry Bert - they’re batting themselves into bowling tomorrow.

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:13:36 +0000

In reply to Bert. Meh.

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 13:12:19 +0000

I’m going to the test tomorrow. The weather looks good, we’ve got excellent seats. The only metaphorical cloud on the figurative horizon is that England appear to be bowling themselves into batting tomorrow. And as we’ve discussed here before, watching your team bat is vastly more stressful than watching your team bowl. To add to this, Wigan play St Helens that evening – which has been an extremely stressful thing in the last five years or so.

Does anyone have any tips for ameliorating stress while in a cricket ground?

Newsflash! As I write this, Jimmy is on a hat-trick. Back in a moment or two with more news.