BREAKING NEWS
Forget Bazball! Forget the high performance review! New data published today reveals how counties can be guaranteed to attract larger crowds to cricket matches played over four days.
Two post reflecting a typical day spent at a county championship game were posted on social media platforms. One was a fascinating* essay detailing the childhood memories of a now middle aged white male, the other was a photograph of an ice cream obscuring an otherwise out of focus view of the outfield.
Whilst all right thinking individuals within the friendship group of the author of the posts responded positively to his extended reminiscences of his now long distant youth, the post containing the picture of an ice cream attracted significantly more ‘likes’ [p < 0.01] and generated considerably more engagement by way of comments.
At a hastily arranged press conference held this afternoon at the County Ground in Taunton, the author of the study claimed that for clubs to survive they now had no option but to provide more in the way of frozen dairy base comestibles.
Somerset’s Chief Executive conceded that careful consideration would have to be given to the reports findings but refused to be drawn on speculation that the clubs current sponsors would be dropped and that, as from next year, Somerset home games would be played at the ‘Mr Whippy County Ground’.
*Please note, the ‘fascination quotient’ of the posted essay could not be independently verified. But you can judge for yourself by following the link to it that appears below.
Other cricket blogs:
To read ‘Cigarettes, Singles, and Sipping Tea with Ian Botham: Signs of a Well Spent Youth!’, click here
To read ‘Bazball, Bazchess, Bazlife’, click here
To read ‘Lewis Calpaldi – Retired Hurt?’, click here
To read ‘Online criticism: it’s just not cricket’, click here
To read ‘Cricket: It’s All About Good Timing’, click here
To read ‘A Tale of Two Tons’, click here
To read ‘A Somerset Cricket Players Emporium’, click here
To read ‘A Cricket Taunt’, click here
To read ‘Scooby Doo and the Mystery of the Deseted Cricket Ground’, click here
To read ‘Brian and Stumpy visit The Repair Shop’, click here
To read ‘A Cricketing Christmas Carol’, click here
To read ‘At Season’s End’, click here
To read ‘A Historic Day’, click here
To read ‘On passing a village cricket club at dusk one late November afternoon’ click here
To read ‘Cricket – through thick and thin’, click here
To read ‘A Song for Brian’, click here
To read ‘I’ve got a little CRICKET list’, click here
To read ‘My love is not a red, red rose , click here
To read ‘Stumpy – a legend reborn’, click here
To read ‘A Cricket Tea Kind of a Day’, click here
To read ‘A Day at the Cricket’, click here
To read ‘The Great Cricket Sell Off’, click here
To read ‘How the Grinch stole from county cricket…or at least tried to’. click here
To read ‘How Covid-19 stole the the cricket season’, click here
To read ‘Life in the slow lane’, click here
To read ‘Frodo and the Format of Power’, click here
To read ‘If Only’, click here
To read ‘Eve of the RLODC limericks’ click here
To read ‘It’s coming home…’, click here
To read ‘A Song for Ben Green’, click here
To read ‘Enough Said…’, the last section of which is cricket related, click here
A Jack Leach Trilogy:
To read ‘For when we can’t see why’, click here
To read ‘WWJD – What would Jack Do?’, click here
To read ‘On Playing a Blinder’, click here
To read ‘Coping with Disappointment’, click here
And now a couple of cricket blogs with a theological flavour
To read ‘Somerset CCC – Good for the soul’, click here
To read ‘Longing for the pavilion whilst enjoying a good innings’, click here
Some musings 
My sister has just returned from the UK and says there was ice cream everywhere she went. She loves ice cream so this made her happy. So I think that any cricket club planning to test your theory had better have pretty special ice cream.
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