A gradual but inevitable descent into cricket-based loathing and bile.

Articles by Matt H

Runs Don’t Win Matches, Catches Do

Runs Don’t WIn Matches, Catches Do. This fact may not necessarily be true.

No Comments | December 5, 2013 | | Opinion, Tests | Tags: , , , ,

No Such Thing As A Free Launch: Simon Hughes’s ‘Cricket’s Greatest Rivalries’

It’s the Ashes and it’s nearly Christmas. It must be time for loads of books to be published!

1 Comment | December 2, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags: , , ,

Australia vs. England: First Test Review (Just The End Of Love)

An aging group trying in vain to recapture past glories. But do we mean England’s batsmen or the Manics?

No Comments | November 25, 2013 | | Opinion, Tests | Tags: , , , , ,

Stuart Broad 1 Australia 0

Day one of the series was all about one man.

1 Comment | November 21, 2013 | | Tests | Tags: , , ,

Australia vs. England, First Test: Preview

Watching the Ashes – the second best thing you could be doing in the early hours of a cold Thursday morning.

No Comments | November 20, 2013 | | Tests | Tags: , , , ,

Shooting Trolls In A Barrel

Shane Warne – we’re not sorry.

1 Comment | November 9, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags: , ,

Is Rankin or Tremlett or Finn the new Bresnan or Finn?

The boring old selection question has a new twist as exciting as Sophie Ellis Bextor’s charleston.

No Comments | November 7, 2013 | | Opinion, Tests | Tags: , , , ,

Whatever Happened To The Unlikely Lads? #40: Chris Silverwood

A player from back when England didn’t have a clue, Charles.

No Comments | November 5, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags: , , ,

One Of The Great What Ifs, #4: Gatting Doesn’t Rebel

The late 1980s – turmoil in the England camp, but can one man and a beard lead them towards better times?

No Comments | October 31, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags: , , ,

Whatever Happened To The Unlikely Lads? #38: Warren Hegg

Making his 51allout debut today is the former Lancashire wicket-keeper and Tony Wilson wannabe.

1 Comment | October 28, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags: , , ,