Welcome the new boys - UPDATED

The cricket blogosphere is spreading faster than the outfielders when Kevin Pietersen gets that look in his eye. Welcome a few new entrants to the gang who are worth a visit: Nigel Henderson is well-known to long-time readers of Line and Length after he sent regular postcards of despair from Australia during the last Ashes series, which were collated in his book, If It Was Raining Palaces... His blog, Reverse Sweep, is taking its first faltering steps in the world and will be well worth a regular read.

Also, as reminded in these comments, there is the Last of the Summer Whine blog by Len the Yorkshire kitman. Well-written and fun, if rather too focused on Yorkshire for some tastes, it is on my favourites list and should be on yours. Slightly disingenuous to trumpet "brought to you by the Corridor of Uncertainty website" on the banner, when "a CofU website" would be more accurate. It may link to a Yorkshire messageboard of that name, but most of us who have been around the blogosphere for a few years (not to mention Google) regard Will's Corridor blog, which had to drop the "of Uncertainty" bit because of legal pressure from some twit, as the original CofU.

Outside the Line and Well Pitched are two other blogs that have come to my attention recently, and Terry Jenner also has a blog. The self-acclaimed Spin Doctor was responsible for developing the young Shane Warne into the wicket-taking beast he became and is trying to do the same for young Englishmen. He's not posted much so far but it is worth keeping tabs on.

Jenner is arguably more famous for being the Australia batsman who inadvisably placed his head in the way of a bouncer from John Snow in 1971, which led to the England bowler being barracked by the Sydney crowd, who then chucked beer cans at him and grabbed his shirt while he fielded, with a very silly hat, on the boundary. Ah, those were the days when cricket really was a man's game... Not like the over-protected jessies we have today. Watch and enjoy.

I particularly admired the quote at the time from the SCG's curator, Athol Watkins, who said: "That crowd must have been mad. Half of the cans they threw were still full."

Comments

[Q]

Thanks for the mention Patrick.

Q from Well Pitched.

[Yorkshire Fan]

Still no love for Len?

http://lastofthesummerwhine.wordpress.com/

Oh Patrick, how could you?