Tag: humour

Buttler: England ‘want to give better account’ at T20 World Cup

21 May 2024 0 comments

Jos Buttler wants his England side to repair their wounded pride at next month’s T20 World Cup and banish memories […]

Grounds for concern

21 April 2024 0 comments

RICHARD CLARKE AKA The Grumbler My local non-league football club were eyeing promotion before the winter flooding. But between Boxing […]

LEHMANN EXIT NO LOSS TO THE MIC

8 March 2019 0 comments

YOUR SHOUT… Send your comments to: The Cricket Paper, Tuition House, St Georges Road, Wimbledon SW19 4EU email: [email protected] I […]

’SIR’ GEOFF HAS PUT HIMSELF ON STICKY WICKET

25 August 2017 0 comments

AS A batsman, Geoffrey Boycott prided himself on a stout defence. Yet even he has acknowledged that the straightest bat […]

Martin Johnson column – It’s time to spare us all that post-game baloney

23 May 2017 0 comments

Listening to the various spoutings of the politicians in the run up to the General Election, do you ever get […]

Martin Johnson column – Cricket in the 1980s! It was an X-rated classic…

2 May 2017 0 comments

Back in the 1970s, it was nigh on impossible to go to the cinema without seeing a film about skyscrapers […]

Martin Johnson column – England captains always end up in a stew

14 February 2017 0 comments

It’s not easy being a leader, a thought which doubtless occurred to the other Captain Cook when he was being […]

Martin Johnson column – If this is supposed to be fun, then I’m Napoleon

1 February 2017 0 comments

You can scarcely go to a rugby match these days without watching some disorientated participant being ordered off for a […]

Martin Johnson column – Always trouble when the wags are in town

13 December 2016 0 comments

Dubai seemed like an appropriate venue for England’s cricketers to nip off to and recharge their batteries. You could argue […]

Martin Johnson column – Gloves labours lost – Or a comedy of errors

6 December 2016 0 comments

The first cricket related Christmas present I ever got was a scorers’ book, although I’d only got through one pencil […]

Martin Johnson column – Who needs style if you can play it to the max?

19 October 2016 0 comments

There have been many fast bowlers down the years – Holding, Lillee, Hall – with actions graceful enough to set […]

Martin Johnson column – Let’s face up to real perils of touring…

20 September 2016 0 comments

There seems to have been a fair amount of tut-tutting and eyebrow raising over Eoin Morgan and Alex Hales opting […]

Martin Johnson column – Haves and have nots in county ground pageant

30 August 2016 0 comments

I have managed, through the admittedly devious process of bribing a Lord’s cleaning lady to secrete a microphone in the […]

Room 101 – John Blain

20 June 2016 0 comments

Odd socks I can’t stand it when people wear odd socks, it drives me mad. It’s an OCD thing of […]

Martin Johnson column – There are some guys who just thrive off being bad

13 June 2016 0 comments

A nicer man than Vic Marks would be hard to find, and the dialogue as he walked out to bat […]

Martin Johnson column – There’d be no fun if Geoffrey’s mum was at No.11

6 June 2016 0 comments

There are one or two instances in which Wisden’s claim to be cricket’s unimpeachable bible fails to stand up to […]