A website re-imagined
Like an unfinished Beach Boys record, the previous design incarnation of this site failed to live up to my ridiculously fussy standards. So now, after a winter spent working on my technique in the nets, a new design sweeps in like the proverbial new broom, and on the back of such buzzwords as “thought shower”, “blue sky thinking” and “conceptualize”…
…ok, forget the buzzwords. The point is I wasn’t happy with the old design, and I think that the new one is much better. I hope that you agree with me, but it isn’t the end of the world if you don’t.
If you are browsing in Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari or Opera you will see the groovy new CSS3 curved borders. If you are using Internet Explorer you’ll have to make do with corners. And if you don’t understand what this paragraph is about, then ignorance is bliss.
Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments, or contact me if you spot anything that doesn’t do what it says on the tin.
From now on I shall be back to posting as before, with some new ideas thrown into the mix as well.
This summer on Good Cricket Wicket
The IPL is almost over, but then it’s straight into the next T20-fest, the World Twenty20 over in the Caribbean. The first hurdle each team has to clear is actually getting there during the current travel blackout.
The county season is well and truly underway, and I shall be taking in some matches over the summer. I shall also be examining the goings-on at Real Surrey as their “project” under Chris Adams continues to splutter along, and explaining why the rest of English cricket enjoys watching them fail.
Off the field, English cricket in 2010 promises to be full of more intrigue than a Tom Clancy thriller as Giles Clarke and chums continue to bicker over how to get as much of Lalit’s pie as possible without having to cut down on their broccoli. And that’s even assuming that Lalit doesn’t have his pie taken away from him after he helped separate an Indian politician from his job recently.
Then there are the summer’s international series between England, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Australia. For the first time since 1912, England is being used as a neutral test venue, which will be as close as we ever get to watching Australians playing cricket without worrying about whether or not they’re actually any good – see below.
The 2nd edition of the Champions League T20 will take place in September without the English counties, for whom it’s a case of too much of a good thing. I’ll be joining the rest of the world outside of India in hoping the IPL teams take a beating again.
However, all of this pales like an Englishman in winter in comparison with the approaching Ashes series down-under. Can England win in Australia for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century? With the Aussies still in transition, it may be the best chance England get. I’ll be building up to Australia’s 2 – 1 victory as the summer progresses, identifying the protagonists and foolishly offering up more predictions.
All of this, plus another exciting (and for now secret) project, will be coming your way over the next few months. I hope you enjoy it as much as I plan to!
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