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Surrey pays women to come to the cricket

Surrey has cracked the code, they’ve come up with a way to get more women come to cricket.

They’ve gone and got walk on girls from the sexy world of darts to usher the batsmen to the crease.

I talked to Surrey, or I think it was someone from Surrey, about their cunning plan.

“We want more women at cricket, an this is one way to guarantee it. Some may see it as a cheap poorly thought out publicity stunt made to give our middle aged fans a boner at the game, but this is about the women, not the men who ogle them.

Another upside to getting more women in the ground, we’ll also have a situation where young girls in the crowd will have someone to look up to. So far the only job in cricket for women as that of a cheerleader or WAG, both of which you need specialized skillsets for, but any middling to attractive woman can be a walk on girl. We need to create more positions for these kind of women.

Imagine going to the cricket with your six your old daughter, she looks around and there is no positive role models inside the rope, now she can see a job she can hope to achieve, walking the batsman out to bat, standing fairly close to the pitch itself, and ensuring that the batsman doesn’t get timed out.

It might come across as sexist, but our research shows us that young girls love tits and are mostly bi at that age. Breasts sell cricket tickets, everyone knows this.

Sure, we haven’t really thought through all the details, we do have a gay on our team. But where thinking of two sexy looking trannies, but it’s ultimately Steve Dave’s decision. We just hope he doesn’t want half naked bears.

I mean if we had a women’s team, we’d get men in tight bike shorts taking them out.”

The problem is that like most soft porn, walk out girls don’t really sell any extra tickets and are kind of shit.

I mean they’ll be clothed and not performing sex acts.

What a waste of time.

Surrey should be forgetting about the cricket and having a full oval orgy.

Hundreds of women and a few strapping young lads to perform 3 hour long sessions (any longer and new comers will be bored) of hardcore erotica.

I’m sure there is market research to back this up.

Sure there will far more mess to clean up in the stands than usual, but that’s the price of running a massively successful live sex show.

Cricket has been crying out for more useless sexism that doesn’t help it at all, I’m glad Surrey have stepped up to fill the breach.

Cricket and sex never really go together, but only because cricket will never fully commit, put the gimp mask on and face it’s naked ass to the sky. Maybe this could be Surrey’s role?

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The England IPL disaster

As I turned up for Surrey’s first T20 of the year I couldn’t help but make comparisons between this competition and the IPL.  Sure I’ve never been to an actual IPL game, but we’ve all been to an IPL game in spirit.

I arrived about 15 minutes before the start of play, and so did about 300 other people.  It meant I, and Suave, got to see how the “crowd” was pumped up.  First the Surrey cheerleaders were brought out, in long pants.  Surely this proves that cheerleaders and the English climate are not a great match.  Then the PA guy took us throw an awkward 30 seconds of chanting Go Surrey, or something like that.  He seemed excited by the crowd response.  We didn’t hear any response.

That lacklustre start was then compounded by the Surrey PA man announcing the team in the same way NBA players are read out, except without the energy.  Batting at 1, your captain and winner of last year’s T20, Rory-Hamilton-Brown.  When your team has to talk up your captain’s achievement with his former club, times are tough.  Andrew Symonds was called the greatest T20 player ever.  Younis Khan and Ramps had their test and first class record bumped up.

It was as if the whole thing was a half assed attempt to be American.  The IPL might be mental, but it is a fully-fledged American Indian hybrid of mental.  This was cheerleaders in long pants in front of a stand with 40 people in it.  For a great deal of time there had to have been more employees than actual crowd.  Surrey had decided on assigning seat numbers, which is what they do for all Category 1 matches.  The problem is that this was an after work game, so no one came down at the same time, and everyone just sat where they wanted while over eager Oval attendees tried to force them into their seats while hundreds of seats were free behind them.

Then the game started.  Surrey to bat with a pretty handy line up of Lady Hamilton Brown, Tell em Steve Davies, Ramps, Andrew Symonds and Younis Khan.  Even at six they had a test player in Usman Azfaal.  So when they feel to 5/17 it was a bit of a shock.  Even for Surrey this was bad.

Eventually they made their way to 97.

There was music blaring, but when the game got boring, we’d have preferred they kept it on.

Then the real entertainment started with the bringing out of the T-shirt gun to fire t-shirts into the crowd.  The t-shirt guy was far better than any of Surrey batsmen, as he actually found the gaps between the crowd.  Suave and Dan from test match sofa both went running after one, Suave got it, Dan fell over.  Now being that there was almost no one at the ground, imagine how embarrassing it would be for the t-shirt guy to run out of t-shirts.  Exactly.

A cheerleader came over with more after 5 minutes of two cheer leaders and the t-shirt guy looking really embarrassed as drunken patrons abused them.

Then the Gloucester Gladiators came out to bat with a Kiwi and an Irishman. They chased the target down in 9.5 overs without losing a wicket.

From the moment the game was off people in the cheap seats starting booing Surrey.  It was hardly surprising, they had put up such a pointless display of cricket they should have been happy to be booed.  Then when they got to the Pavilion the members booed them some more.

The booing and the terrible cricket were the only attempts at making it more like the IPL that didn’t fail.

Then we all went to the pub, with with Soph from the sofa, whose netball game outlasted the majority of the cricket.  The bar man asked me if the cricket had started yet, I told him it had finished.  He asked where everyone was, as they were expecting a big influx of cricket fans.  I said we were it.

Go Surrey.

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administracrats fail, again

When a cricketer walks down the wicket slogging in a crucial game there is a chance that if he misses it he will be out of this game, and perhaps out of the next one.

Cricket, and all sport, is tough like that.

You can be selected on performance, and de-selected on performance.

Cricket Administracrats do not have to worry about this.

They can fuck up for years without fear of demotion.

Even if their error has something to do with their side losing.

Look at the latest fuck up, Imran Tahir, the luscious leggie who is so cool we refuse to bag his alice band.  Mostly.

South Africa lucked into this world-class leg spinner because the dude loves to travel and found himself a wife in their country.

In April 09 he said he was qualified to play for South Africa.

No one questioned it.

Before that he had played in a Presidents XI match against Australia, so he was clearly a chance of international honours.

Then almost a year later he is supposedly qualified and gets picked for a squad when South Africa really need an attacking bowler to help them win, but instead they can’t pick him because he is not yet a permanent resident.  Surely something some official should have known before calling him into the squad.

If South Africa trusted that he was qualified in April 09, why did no one check then on the off chance he might be required?

At best it makes CSA look like a bunch of idiots who have shown that they don’t believe in their spinner but have no other player to replace him. At worst this could cost South Africa the series against England.

There is more though, because it seems that Tahir just doesn’t understand the rules, he thinks that he qualifies because it is four years since he played for Pakistan A, and now is only missing out because of paperwork.

That is not how the system works, as the Times points out (and I have read up on this boring shit before), you need to have lived in the country you wish to represent for at least 180 nights a year for four years.  The times doesn’t think Tahir has, and I have my doubts too.

While these errors were also Tahir’s, someone at CSA should have checked all this out at least two years ago when he was obviously trying to qualify.

And this isn’t some one off. Azeem Rafiq cost Yorkshire points when the played him when he didn’t have a UK passport. Darren “Eyelids” Pattinson played a couple of seasons for Victoria before playing for England, but technically he should have played all his games for Victoria as an overseas player before that, just no one noticed.  Surrey also did a great one when for the 08 season they tried to get Shoaib in for the last four games so they wouldn’t get relegated, by no one checked Shoaib’s visa so he only ended up arriving for the last two games.

Not that it mattered.  He looked shit anyway.

All of these, and there are probably heaps more, have either cost teams or could have cost teams on the field.

I wonder how many people were demoted or fired over it?

Ofcourse the ICC are experts at this kind of fuck up.  How often does an umpire or match referee get refused entry in a country due to visa problems?

But we know that no one gets fired from the ICC, how else would you explain Daryl Harper.

Has anyone even checked if Brendan Nash is Jamaican?  Or did he just rock up with a Marley T-shirt and say I’m one of you, gimme a game?

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Ashes fact 77

The oval was once a detainment camp for nymphomaniac women.

Back in the late 1800s, when horny women were frowned upon by the English Monarchy, the Establishment would round the women up and chuck them all in the Oval.

It became a place of debauchery and sin. Before the OCS stand was built, the old stand was known as the Lesbos stand.

Mark Ramprakash, who was playing for surrey in the 1800s, talks about that period, “You have to remember that at that time women becoming wanton sex goddesses was frowned upon, but had they known that throwing all these women here would have started such blatant lesbian sex, they would have thought twice about it.”

Cricketers however were very pleased with the situation, and Surrey and England prospered while the Oval was full of nymphs as the opposition teams weren’t used to large scale Lesbian orgies in the grand stands during games.

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Shoaib till Lunch

Surrey won the toss and decided to make the most of their financial outlay and bowl first.

More importantly Shoaib is bowling from my end.

His run up is so long, it feels as if he is starting underneath the press box.

He doesn’t look like he will make the crease, but he does, and he fires down a bouncer at a good clip.

His second ball was even quicker at the chest, and a no ball.

Second ball, take two, was quick outside off.

The third ball is a slower ball down the leg side.

Fourth ball was a quick Yorker, Shoaib takes a few deep breaths after dispatching that one.

Fifth ball is a riser outside off and slaps into Batty’s gloves.

Sixth ball looks like a slower one again, but is full and straight.

1-0-2

Ormond has made way for Shoaib, in real terms I wonder who is fitter.

The first ball of his second over was taken by Batty in front of second slip, it was a wide, but that seems like an understatement.

The rest of the over is much more mundane, he strays down the legside at one stage and gets clipped for 4.

2-0-13

He seems to be all about the slower balls today, have counted 3 in 2 overs.

First ball of the third over is his best so far, on a good length, takes off and beats the bat, yet again hits Batty’s hands very hard.

Next ball strikes brown hard on the pad as well, he looks like he has found some kind of Shoaib style rhythm.

No, I spoke too soon now he is bowling crap down the legside again.

3-0-14

3 ordinary short balls, two down the legside and a knee high full toss that looked like it came at a similar pace to a Stuart MacGill shocker.

It’s been a long spell, time for a break perhaps?

4-0-16

With that huge spell he is rested.

In the field he is walking in hard, looks keen, is talking up the team, no sorry that is Ramps.

Shoaib is stretching a lot, groin and hamstring, talking to the umpire, and looking a little bored.

He just dived to save a four, which is a good sign, even if it did look like slow motion.

Next ball he chased one, and while it took him a while to warm himself up, by the end he was flying and saved the third. Although he did spend the whole time looking over his shoulder to see if he should be running at full speed.

Shoaib did seem to get excited over Alex Tudor’s bowling, and he is the only one to do so since 2001.

He is alternating his stance between tea pot, arms crossed and the arm hold behind the back, interesting stuff.

At one stage he did a commando roll, even though the ball was not in play, and nothing was happening in general. Great stuff.

I just realised that Shoaib has had no real contact with any of the Surrey boys, which is fair enough, new team and all that, except that one of them is a former team mate in Saqlain.

I will watch this for further developments.

Lunch, he walks off arm in arm with Alex Tudor.

Those two have a special bond, that only under performing quick bowlers can have.

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Surrey, spicing things up a bit

When things get stale you need to change costumes, try new positions, and bring in new people.

Surrey, the kinky buggers, know this.

In cricket terms you can’t get any more kinky than Shoaib.

He would spice up a white piece of bread.

He is nipple tassels on a monkey that man.

And don’t Surrey know it.

But like putting nipple tassels on a monkey this is not a long term solution.

Now Ali Brown has been given the ass, and Surrey is looking for new men.

See full post here.

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take the money and run boy

Ali Brown has never really made much of an impact on me.

He played a few games for England, even smoked the Indians once.

Scored a double ton in a domestic one day cricket.

And played for Surrey.

None of these things impregnated my memory.

Then before the IPL started, the cream of the English domestic cricketers were in a rush to come out and say they were approached to play.

Ali Brown was one of the first.

He had just signed a one year happy retirement contract with Surrey.

Brown is old school Surrey, not one of these “I’ll play for anyone with cash” sort of county players.

He decided that as Surrey had been good to him, he would be good to them, and he stood by his contract.

This meant saying no to Bhaji and Sachin.

Surrey have been rubbish this year.

Really rubbish.

Watching them the other day reminded me of watching the clean up of a mass religious suicide.

They had to start getting some new blood.

The decision to get rid of Brown was a correct one.

The team is bigger than the individual.

Ali Brown probably thinks he did the right thing.

Perhaps his wife/lover/accountant or posse are doubting that.

If he had done a Dimi, he would have at least double his salary for the year, and been in on the ground level of the IPL.

Now he is looking for a county, when if he played in the IPL he could have owned one.

Sportsmen have only a short window to cash in, and you can’t blame some of them for choosing cash over club/county/country.

Ofcourse I will, and do, all the time, bloody money grubbing fuckers.

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Shoaib gets caught at the border

I don’t know what Surrey was playing at. 
But someone has fucked up. 
And their potential saviour Shoaib Ahktar could not get past the border security. 
I will not make any jokes about Muslims getting caught without Visas. 
I don’t know how mistakes like this are made, but this was a good one. 
Shoaib was to be the metaphoric white knight, and now all they have is Matthew Nicholson.
Again. 
When i arrived in London, with slightly less fanfare than Shoaib, i was asked the rules of my visa. 
Once of which was that you cannot play professional sport, unless you are on a professional sport visa. 
You’d think a county cricket team that brings people over to play for them all the time might know the rules. 
Perhaps not. 
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QBQ @ the oval vs the spitfires (2nd innings)

Here is the 2nd innings.

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QBQ @ the oval vs the spitfires (1st innings)

If anyone is interested in my thoughts on Kents innings against Surrey click here.

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