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Playfair Cricket Annual 2007

By Will last year, mid-February Leave a comment on this post

Always interesting to see who appears on the front cover of the Playfair Cricket Annual. It’s a bit of a poisoned chalice, based upon a player’s form in the previous season. As such, they usually fail spectacularly in the next summer. This year’s victim is Ian Bell.

Expect one or all of the following: loss of form; chronic and/or career-threatening injury days before the opening Test; other chronic things; tabloid exposure (unlikely in this case) and/or does/has a Thorpe; dropped in place of Mark Butcher; dropped in place of Ashley Giles who is promoted to No.3 as reverse-pinch-hitter. Or, worst of all, he launches a book in an attempt to dethrone Jamie Oliver, entitled Cooking like the Shermanator.

It fails - he fails - and Frindall starts plotting the downfall of 2008’s incumbent.

Ian Bell on the front cover of the 2007 edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual

Pre-order it now for a puny £3.99 (released April 5 2007).

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2 Responses to “Playfair Cricket Annual 2007”

  • Angry of Australia wrote:
    February 20th, 2007 at 8.28 pm

    Will

    My friends at Cricket Europe tell me that while you were in Kenya you missed several matches because you were laid low with the squits after claiming to have had a dodgy curry. Is this true? I thought that like the mounties, nothing stopped a reporter covering a match. Is this a first for Cricinfo and does it reflect a softening of attitudes?

  • Will wrote:
    February 20th, 2007 at 9.10 pm

    Softening doesn’t even come close to describing it I’m afraid. Praise be imodium; thanks be to andrex.


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