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IT started as drunken blather. Let’s follow cricket around the world and escape the drudgery of the office environment. A Test match from the Caribbean was gleaming from the screen at our dingy watering hole. The calypso drums and the turquoise beach postcard image spiralled our intoxication. Alcohol had once again been our bane and scythed our weary heads. It wasn’t exactly an eureka moment.  But the obsession failed to subside. So, after much ado and quitting our desk jobs, the misguided idea became reality. The road beckoned for a pair of cricket tragics.

 

Cricket is a global sport, the most played bat and ball game in the world, but is generally only associated with the 10 Test playing countries. The sport, derided universally as the English invention for procrastination, has bounced past the old British colonial lands and through to new territory. The frenzied excitement of Twenty20 cricket has created optimism for the sport to find a new audience and we hope to report and write on this development, whilst traversing the Baltic woods to the Tropics.

 

Of course, there will also be mainstream cricket drivel and tales from our misguided adventures to beef up the blog.

We hope the content will be evocative and informative.Hopefully we’ll showcase a new wave of talented writers, who have been squeezed out by archaic newspapers.

At the very least, we hope to help waste some of your not so valuable work time.

 – Robert Hobson and Tristan Lavalette (editors)