With apologies to any fans of ITV’s, now abandoned, On the Ball football highlights programme, what follows is a consideration of the ideal cricket ball. The post comprises a series of thought experiments, with little (no) actual research or science to support them…but there might be some hypotheses that could be worth further investigation.
Category Archives: Good Cricket
Review — “Something in the Water: The Story of England’s Football Talent Hotbeds”. And some thoughts on “natural” talent development environments.
Interesting conversation on Xtter last week on talent development in English football, and the next generation of superstars. So Callum Murray’s Something in the Water: The Story of England’s Football Talent Hotbeds provided some very timely background reading, with a case-study of the emergence of south London as a hotbed of soccer talent development, Murray …
Review — Beastly Fury: The Strange Birth of English Football — be careful what you wish for!
In the continuing debate about the future of professional cricket in England, there is an iconoclastic strand that would see the end of the “First Class” system — a big “no” to the elitist, closed shop of the MCC and the Counties. One repeated theme has been the need for an “FA Cup of cricket”, …
The Teesra 