Cricket by LeggieLefty

Devoted to Leggielefty’s chats about his all-consuming passion for cricket.

He can be quite opinionated …. so be warned that some of his opinions may not be warm and fuzzy or follow popular tastes…

Lord’s Cricket Ground 9th August 2018

 

Dedicated to Cricket

Hello, You may know by now that I used to blog at https://www.sloword.com SloWord really had no place for cricket in that blog, which has become a more general purpose blog that shares nostalgic stories, essays, travelogues and poetry. The Slo-Man wrote a satirical post here https://www.sloword.com/2014/10/09/sad-news/ announcing the separation…Continue reading→

Sad News

For some time now we have been noticing that LeggieLefty has been “very disinterested”. His last post was written in April, 6 months ago. On a few occasions he has thrown away his post, despite such opportunities as “Red Monday”, the day when Bangladesh scored over 600 and Australia fell…Continue reading→

The Summer Game

I read this article by Jonathan Agnew and was struck by it’s smarmy tone. As an apology for Peter Moores‘s reinstatement it fails convincingly. About the only thing the article does is re-iterate the infantile regurgitations of team, team player and togetherness. It has all the hallmarks of those independent…Continue reading→

Saving the ODI

Continuing the earlier post about T20, inspired by this analytical article. In recent years the ODI has been threatened by T20. (if you don’t know what either of those two terms mean, you can stop reading now, for none of the following will make any more sense. However, you can…Continue reading→

Cricket and T20

I just read this very numbery article. If you’re not into statistics and numbers you’re going to be quite numb at the end of it. However, if you’re not into statistics can you truly call yourself a cricket aficionado? Hmm? Clearly Mr Date knows his data well and there are…Continue reading→

New Author!

Please join us in welcoming a new contributor to this blog. LeggieLefty will be bringing his specialized and rare knowledge of the lovely game of cricket to these blogs. For some time now, LeggieLefty has been ghosting cricket posts for the LastWord. The LastWord was never truly comfortable with that…Continue reading→

The Escaped Goat

And on a great island sat James. For he was the head, the chief. And this James coveted the riches of the kingdom of BCCI. For James’s kingdom had once been rich in heroes. Jeff, with his slingshot thunderbolts, and the menacing Dennis had smote many in the field of…Continue reading→