All posts tagged "humour"
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England News
/ 11 months agoButtler: England ‘want to give better account’ at T20 World Cup
Jos Buttler wants his England side to repair their wounded pride at next month’s T20 World Cup and banish memories of...
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County Championships
/ 12 months agoGrounds for concern
RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler My local non-league football club were eyeing promotion before the winter flooding. But between Boxing Day...
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Featured
/ 6 years agoLEHMANN EXIT NO LOSS TO THE MIC
YOUR SHOUT… Send your comments to: The Cricket Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: newsdesk@thecricketpaper.com I CAN...
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News
/ 8 years ago’SIR’ GEOFF HAS PUT HIMSELF ON STICKY WICKET
AS A batsman, Geoffrey Boycott prided himself on a stout defence. Yet even he has acknowledged that the straightest bat cannot...
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoMartin Johnson column – It’s time to spare us all that post-game baloney
Listening to the various spoutings of the politicians in the run up to the General Election, do you ever get the...
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoMartin Johnson column – Cricket in the 1980s! It was an X-rated classic…
Back in the 1970s, it was nigh on impossible to go to the cinema without seeing a film about skyscrapers bursting...
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoMartin Johnson column – England captains always end up in a stew
It’s not easy being a leader, a thought which doubtless occurred to the other Captain Cook when he was being lightly...
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoMartin Johnson column – If this is supposed to be fun, then I’m Napoleon
You can scarcely go to a rugby match these days without watching some disorientated participant being ordered off for a head...
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoMartin Johnson column – Always trouble when the wags are in town
Dubai seemed like an appropriate venue for England’s cricketers to nip off to and recharge their batteries. You could argue about...
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoMartin Johnson column – Gloves labours lost – Or a comedy of errors
The first cricket related Christmas present I ever got was a scorers’ book, although I’d only got through one pencil (mainly...
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Features and Columns
/ 8 years agoMartin Johnson column – Who needs style if you can play it to the max?
There have been many fast bowlers down the years – Holding, Lillee, Hall – with actions graceful enough to set to...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Let’s face up to real perils of touring…
There seems to have been a fair amount of tut-tutting and eyebrow raising over Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales opting out...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – Haves and have nots in county ground pageant
I have managed, through the admittedly devious process of bribing a Lord’s cleaning lady to secrete a microphone in the handle...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoRoom 101 – John Blain
Odd socks I can’t stand it when people wear odd socks, it drives me mad. It’s an OCD thing of mine,...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – There are some guys who just thrive off being bad
A nicer man than Vic Marks would be hard to find, and the dialogue as he walked out to bat for...
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Features and Columns
/ 9 years agoMartin Johnson column – There’d be no fun if Geoffrey’s mum was at No.11
There are one or two instances in which Wisden’s claim to be cricket’s unimpeachable bible fails to stand up to serious...
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