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

Opinion Archive

No Such Thing As A Free Launch: Mike Hussey’s ‘Underneath The Southern Cross’

Books can be fun. They can also be informative. Some of them are best described as ‘shit’. But which of these categories does the Mike Hussey story fall under?

No Comments | October 20, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags: , ,

No Such Thing As A Free Launch: David Gower’s ‘An Endangered Species’

The 51allout book club: less popular than the gin club, to be fair.

No Comments | October 19, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags: , , ,

Great Unsolved Mysteries Of The Modern World #1: Gentle Ben

The first in a new series of articles where we seek to uncover some of the great mysteries of the cricketing world. That is till we get bored of the idea and bugger off to play Pokemon instead.

No Comments | October 17, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags: , , ,

Steve Harmison: The Last Of The Gang To Die

Steve Harmison can take the credit for driving us to gin back in 2006. The rest is history.

No Comments | October 14, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags: , , , ,

51allout Is On Holiday

Stick the out of office on – we’re off on holiday for a week or so!

3 Comments | October 5, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags:

County Cricket 2013: The Ugly

Whilst everyone else has already forgotten about county cricket, we’re still dragging a rake through its fallen leaves and seeing what dead creatures we find blocking the gutter.

No Comments | October 2, 2013 | | 40/50-over, First Class, Opinion | Tags: , ,

County Cricket 2013: The Bad

County cricket 2013, part two.

No Comments | October 1, 2013 | | 40/50-over, First Class, Opinion | Tags: , , ,

County Cricket 2013: The Good

Part one in our county cricket round-up.

1 Comment | September 30, 2013 | | 40/50-over, First Class, Opinion | Tags: , , ,

England World Cup Ladder Volume 1

The race to the World Cup starts somewhere around here.

No Comments | September 27, 2013 | | 40/50-over, Opinion | Tags: , , ,

Cricketing Gingers: The Work Experience Boy Writes Again

The work experience boy and ginger cricketers: a match made in heaven.

No Comments | September 25, 2013 | | Opinion | Tags: , , ,