BREAKING NEWS:
It emerged today that the ECB is secretly plotting to foil Somerset’s ambitions to win this year’s county championship. In a move that many consider consistent with the governing body’s long held desire to rid the country of the hugely popular West Country club, two shady characters, licensed to use ‘unnecessary violence’, were seen loitering outside the headquarters of the England selectors in the hope of intimidating those who were gathering there to decide who would play in the final test of the summer.
Their appearance coincides with allegations that have been made regarding a plan that is said to be afoot whereby Jack Leach’s recent 7-50 will be cynically exploited so as to have him selected, alongside teammate Shoaib Bashir, for England’s encounter with Sri Lanka scheduled to start this coming Friday. Such a move would see the pair unavailable for Somerset’s next match – a potentially championship deciding game against Surrey – and thereby hinder the team’s rejuvenated title ambitions.
Challenged to respond to claims that they had ordered groundsmen at the Kia Oval to prepare a spinning wicket ‘like Ciderabad, only more so’, a spokesman for the ECB declined to comment, saying only that ‘If it wasn’t for you meddling peasants, we would have got away with it’
Ahead of getting the team back together, Andy Hurry, Somerset’s Director of Cricket, was asked for his reaction. He appeared in confident mood. ‘We’re a hundred and thirty nine miles from Kennington, we’ve a squad full of players, and we’ve all been executing our skills’, he said’ ‘More than that, we’ve all wearing replicas of Tom Banton’s sunglasses. It’s only a matter of time before the mission these guys are on is accomplished!’
Other cricket blogs, with an inevitable bias towards Somerset.
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A Jack Leach Trilogy:
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And now a couple of cricket blogs with a theological flavour
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Some musings 