Like this author after thirty seconds of watching 9 1/2 Weeks, the County Championship is fast approaching its climax. But which England bowler was the star of the show in the latest round of fixtures?
Back in the late ’50’s we began filling out an ECB survey. Now that we’re done, here’s what we wanted to say.
We do love the County Championship, honest. It’s just that we’ve had a really busy week.
Belatedly, the County Championship sprung into life this week with close matches, dramatic finishes and some superb performances. Here’s our rundown on the latest round of fixtures.
The County Championship is back! If it was 1989, this would presumably have been one of the lead stories for this week’s edition of the Junior Gazette.
YouTube: quite popular. The County Championship: not quite as popular. But surely the former could help the latter?
We turn our attention to Division Two as we go around the grounds, realise it rained all week and fill space by talking about the season so far.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. The rain in England and Wales falls mainly on the County Championship. Here’s the first half of our discussion around said County Championship so far.
Bloody foreigners, eh? Coming over here, retiring from one day cricket to distract everyone from the proper cricket going on. Can’t trust ’em.
For once, it was dry. Who performed in the heat and who wilted? Find out as we review the latest week of the County Championship.