The Sticky Wicket Blog: Recent Episodes
Jeremy Jensen
A podcast taking a look back on the recently completed matches between England-South Africa and Australia-Pakistan is on the way, but until it is ready, I wanted to share some wonderful news: Cricket is coming to YouTube in a big way! It’s wonderful news, isn’t it? Although what it means for us Yanks wasn’t made […]
Okay, so I don’t hate it that much. It’s probably not the most becoming headline for a blog post, but if you look at this blog post, I pretty much spelled out what would happen if England didn’t move Pietersen to five. They didn’t listen. Pietersen got out for seven. England were 180-all out before […]
As I look out my backdoor at the bleak white landscape one comes to expect in January after witnessing 33 straight years of similar tundra-like conditions in this great cricket hotbed of Wisconsin, I can’t help but feel an emotion long foreign to me–envy. Not since the long-departed years of hoping for an AT-AT under […]
That’s right; I said it. England cricket golden child Kevin Pietersen needs to be moved down the England batting order, or I predict England will lose the final test in this series. Now that I have your attention, let me explain. Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell were all under pressure coming into this […]
Once again, England, we can count on you to fail to seize the initiative when handed to you on a golden platter. This time, England had a cracking start to day 2 of the Third Test with South Africa–taking the final four Proteas wickets for just 12 runs. Jimmy Anderson tore through the rest of […]
The first official episode of The Sticky Wicket Blog Podcast is now available! I’m just going to start off by making a few things clear: 1) I’m an amateur; 2) Radio was the worst part of my broadcasting repertoire; 3) It will get better; 4) Where else are you going to hear an American talk […]
I thought this was a very good article by Cricinfo on the status of associate nations and their strange relations with full-member nations and the ICC. http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/441863.html
This is a video journal of my trip to Minneapolis, Minn., on Sunday, Aug. 2, to check out the final day of the USACA’s Western Conference Cricket Championship at Bryn Mawr Meadows. It’s an absolutely beautiful venue for cricket, with an amazing backdrop of the Minneapolis skyline and some neat features (the railway running along […]