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  • "The fact is that once I was playing again I was automatically available for everything on the schedule and that meant Stanford. I make no apologies for that and, as for the suggestion that I should waive the fee or give it to charity, I don't see why I should be a special case."
    Steve Harmison feels strongly about suggestions that he came out of one-day retirement in order to play the Stanford Twenty20 for 20

    Sep 7, 2008

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    Pillock of the month

    By Will 7 months ago, 4 Comments »

    The Times’s Patrick Kidd has given up his attempt to be a polite cricket correspondent, and has announced a new monthly competition: The Line and Length Pillock of the Month.

    It’s a damn fine idea, and god knows we have a host of losers to choose from. Pillock is one of those excellent words that can be used in all circles of life. You can call a bowler a pillock; a builder a pillock; your colleague a pillock. We’re all pillocks, at some time or another. Other favourite words include twassock, tosser, cretin, spanner, spoon and - Cricinfo London’s latest favourite - numpty.

    My brother once ordered me to call one of his mates a cretin and I, aged about six, got a smack round the face for it. Ergo, my brother is not a cretin but a tosser. I am considerably taller than him now though, despite continued threats into my twenties that he will sever my ankles.

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    Thanks to the Beeb

    By Will 2 years ago, at the end of August, 8 Comments »

    Thanks to Chris and Jo at BBC Radio Five Live for conducting my first radio interview. Not nearly as frightening as I expected. I want more now! Well…sort of. Next time, hopefully I won’t sound such a pillock.

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