County Championship only. First division only.
We’re also lumping them all together in one post this year, because multiple posts feels like quite a big commitment.
Our reasons for picking batsmen to watch are invariably the same: they’re young and we’ve got a general sense that they score runs when other people don’t, even though we haven’t really looked into it properly.
Hildreth is a rare exception. He just scores a lot of runs.
See Adam Lyth to a greater degree, but with less evidence.
We watch him every year. We reckon he could take one million wickets this year. Probably no more than that though.
We had him as one to watch in both 2009 and 2010, so we’re sticking with him through thin-and-thin. He also averaged 70 for Matabeleland Tuskers over the winter and we enjoyed writing the start of this sentence, whatever it meant.
This has ball-all to do with cricket and everything to do with the fact that we just fundamentally like Oliver Newby. He hasn’t got broken legs this year and we are hoping we can spur him to great feats through sheer force of will.
The what now? Come on, you remember: The Alternative Test Cricket World Championship. We did…
Bert writes... Regular readers of this website will be aware that I have a standing…
Players and commentators talk a lot about playing each ball on its merits, but actually…
It's almost time to start looking ahead to the Ashes again, but before we get…
The 2023 Ashes has sogged and then at the last moment unexpectedly fizzled to its…
It's a weird feature of cricket that you can go out in style but then…