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Only a year old? What a precocious blog this Cricket With Balls is. How could something become so big so quickly? Just like one of those steroid fed, genetically modified, featherless chickens that Jamie Oliver gets so enraged about, CWB is no the unofficial Cricinfo without the stats and the earnest press releases. The strength of Cricket in Balls lies in the quality of humour, the frequency of blogs and, most importantly, the international nature of the topics. Most blogs and websites have a national or parochial feel to them. There is nothing wrong with this, but that is how they are. Cricket With Balls has always been far more international than that. The writing here has either been truly balanced or evenly imbalanced in dealing with whatever issue or drama has been dominating talk.
It has also had its favourite players from all round the world. Apart from South Africa; another strength. And then there is the distinctive writing style. You know the one. The style that refuses to differentiate between a sentence and a paragraph. The Australian haiku Where you scroll down to read the next point. Literally. He has also been a leader in self-promotion. It takes more than good writing to get snapped up by Wisden On-Line. It’s hardly as if people from there actively go looking for what gets put up on the web. And in sending out an e-mail to 192 people asking what his “contemporaries” think of the site he has shown he’s one step ahead when it comes to being in the forefront of consciousness. But it works. You can tell that by the sycophantic reviews the request generated. Of course, Cricket With Balls is not without its faults. The fascination with flat-chested actresses, the occasional but not forgotten Bonnie Tyler references, the inability to understand the sexiness of Helen Mirren, and the recent (hopefully short-lived) obsession with English County cricket are curious anomalies. But life would be boring if everything was done in good taste. It is best to thinks of these errors in judgement as the on-line version of how the Smiths used to reference Coronation Street on their sleeve covers. Albert Tatlock wrapped around the 45 of This Charming Man. The musical epitaph for CWB. We look forward to the Difficult Second Year. Visit Cricket With Balls
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