A gradual but inevitable descent into cricket-based loathing and bile.
Scorer’s Notes Archive
How Good Was Michael Clarke’s Annus?
Cheap bum jokes! Business concepts! Charts! References to Cameroon gaining independence! Our latest Scorer’s Notes piece has all this and more.
Coming In A Mess, Going Out In Style: The Oasis Story (Featuring Mike Hussey)
We’re not arrogant, we just believe we’re the best website in the world.
The Wiggles: England’s Lower Order Hot Potato
Children’s TV and charts: the natural ways to describe England’s lower order failings.
Nick Compton And The Bradman Gap
Nick Compton’s summer: good. Joe Root’s summer: less good. Here we drag these basic facts out into 1,200 words, two charts and several references to the cancellation of Knightmare.
Cashing In Or Checking Out?
The only things certain in life are death and taxes. Plus occasional articles in which we mess about with batting averages to fill those awkward gaps between Test matches.
FLT20: Stars Of The Season
Which players are leading the way in this summer’s T20 marathon?
Pietersen Pieters Out
Kevin Pietersen can be described as many things. Impulsive. Exciting. The man who pinched our future wife. And now a former limited overs international player.
Passengers And The Ramprakash Factor
We haven’t done a Scorers’ Notes piece in a while but with a Test series against Sri Lanka coming up we felt we needed a new way to criticise Ravi Bopara.
2011: Year of the bowlers?
Ideally, Test cricket should have bat and ball in equilibrium, so that the best batsmen can be rewarded, but bowlers always have a chance of taking wickets. If that balance can’t be achieved- whether for reasons of weather, playing surface, ability or lack thereof – then the next best is a match that favours the bowlers.
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