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Simon Jones, pictured above, has been hanging around my house recently. He’s really looking forward to the new edition of the Wisden Cricketer.
It’s usually a flighty, even racy, publication, so he’s hoping for something a little more high brow this month.
As the rest of the England team gather around the latest copy, excitement builds: perhaps we could have some serious, hard-hitting articles on Andrew Strauss, perchance?
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Ryan Sidebottom, however, is more interested in the poster of himself. You should see his bedroom. He’s mad for it, him.
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What’s this? Simon Jones has found something to interest him. An article by AYALAC! Dominating the most important page of any self-respected magazine: page 22. The page of kings.
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Alec Guinness gets a little jealous of a photo that isn’t of him.
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Richie Benaud reads the whole piece. Because this is a photograph, you can’t see his vigorous nodding. But he is. Well, as vigorously as when Richie moves towards a bottle of plonk.
12 comments:
You are mad (and I quite like that).
http://cricket-forever.blogspot.com
I wasn't sure the tone of Wisden could be any higher - it's so high already it would be like the Bee Gees on helium.
Anyway, congratulations.
Well done old chap.
Good work mate.
I am going to make a calendar of all you blog lads for next year and the profits can go to, well, me.
So hello, Mr April (or is it May? I don't actually read it).
Well done, old bean..
Sterling effort, on your part!
I'll have a little drink on your behalf.
awesome.
watch out, kerala. there is a celebrity on his way!
me fears are coming true...
first wisden...and next step is gonna be hollywood stdio...
take a bow atheist...cheers everybody...lets raise a toast for AYALAC...!!
AYALAC you cheekster! very well done. Also, nice wallpaper in your house!
If page 22 is The Page of Kings, how come I was on page 21?
I hankered after page 22, but 'twas you that claimed it. Well done. Well earned.
Oh! Congratulations. I like that the world of cricket journalism is slowly but surely being taken over by people who make plasticine models of cricketers.
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Cheers all. When they give me awards, I'll be sure to mention you all.
So long as I don't get a better offer from someone who pays me to mention them.
Bravo Atheist. I shall use your new-found prestige to argue for more plasticine-based analysis in The Times. Nice touch with the leek (or was it a spring onion), too, but it seems fitter than the other Simon Jones
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