June 21st, 2010
We are sad to report that The Nurdler is no longer enjoying sufficient traffic levels to make it worth updating and so it is now back in the pavilion enjoying a nice cold G&T.
Thank you to the highly select few who read along with us for the last two years. May your totals always advance cautiously, especially on a turning pitch. Although we have retired the site and its Twitter feed we will probably leave it up for a while as an archive, not least because we quite liked like the new design.
Even if we were the only people in the world who did…
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June 20th, 2010
See what we were wittering on about on June 20 2010.
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June 20th, 2010
“I’ve not really been all there completely as a captain and I’ve got to think about other people” – Scotland captain Gavin Hamilton steps aside after his team is beaten by England.
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June 19th, 2010
“We already know each other pretty well. We’ve played a fair bit against each other and now we’re going to play a little bit more but I like that. There won’t be much we don’t know about England by the end of the summer” – Ricky Ponting announces that the phony war is over and the hostilities have begun.
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June 18th, 2010
See what we were wittering on about on June 18 2010.
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June 18th, 2010
“Technically speaking, a player doesn’t have to be registered with a county to be eligible for England. But, practically, it’s in the best interest of the player and the England management that he is registered with a county” – so the spectre of Freelance Kev may be some way off yet, if the ECB has any say about it.
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June 17th, 2010
See what we were wittering on about on June 17 2010.
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June 17th, 2010
“Stand in any pub in England when our national team is playing during the football World Cup and you will quickly realise that every football supporter is an expert. These ‘experts’ have now been converted to cricket and they are always ready with sage advice to the batsman such as: ‘Welly it back over his head you prune!’” – Betfair’s Frank Gregan suggests that that with T20 comes a totally different – and much less stoic – philosophy of supporting cricket.
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June 16th, 2010
“This has changed my thoughts on where I am in the side. During the South Africa tour I thought I was becoming a key part of the team and now I don’t feel like that so much, certainly in the one-day team” – now Jimmy’s dangerously near to a case of the yips following the events of the summer so far. At least he can console himself with the fact that he doesn’t fall over very much.
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Tags: Australia, Bangladesh, ICC World Twenty20, James Anderson, Twenty20
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June 15th, 2010
“I think England have a good chance of retaining the Ashes” – Sachin Tendulkar. Thank, you sir. Come again any time.
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Tags: Ashes 2010/11, Australia, England, Sachin Tendulkar
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