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The musings of everyone's favourite revolutionary independent cricket commentary service. LISTEN to live ball-by-ball commentary: guerillacricket.com FOLLOW us on Twitter: twitter.com/guerillacricket SUPPORT us on Patreon: patreon.com/guerillacricket

    The Bear and The Bishop Ep71

    The Bear and The Bishop Ep71

    Welcome back to the warm embrace (and warm beer) of the Bishop and Bear.
     
    The chat this week is very much focused on the IPL as this year’s marathon begins. Who are the runners and riders? Where is the smart money going? Who are the stars and who is missing for each team? What makes the new smart replays smarter than the average replays? Why do Sunrisers Hyderabad get battered everywhere? Is their website still a UX disaster? (Don’t bother looking - it is I can assure you). Who is Jake Fraser McGurk and what happened to the monkey that bit him?
     
    To answer these and so many other questions, we have our own ‘Oracle of the Odds’ and IPL aficionado Andy Ward. Andy is going to be steering our weekly IPL coverage and he seems to be limbering up in fine form, albeit with a Guinness Zero.
     
    We even make time to debate the morals of Australia’s Afghan withdrawal and ponder why no one is mad about the Roy.
     
    Here is our very loose running order:
     
    ·     IPL 2024
    -      What’s new for 2024?
    o  Bouncers
    o  Smart replays
    -      Guerilla Tips – where is our money for this year?
     
    ·     Australia pull out of Afghanistan Mens T20 – A fair stance or looking for an excuse?
     
    ·     Why is no one mad about the Roy?
     
    ·     A decent start for England’s Women vs NZ despite missing some WPL starts
     
    ·     Our IPL Coverage – what to expect
     
     
    Thanks, as ever for your company. Do let us know what you think and join us for our weekly show.
     
    Cheers!
     
    Your Ursine Landlord and Episcopal Barman
     

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    • 1 hr 6 min
    The Bear and The Bishop Ep70

    The Bear and The Bishop Ep70

    A warm welcome once more to the Bishop and Bear.
     
    A fabulous if ultimately unsuccessful Test series for England is behind us, but there is plenty to reflect upon. The IPL stretches out before us. No less than 66 days of, well pretty much the same as last year, but it will be fun.
     
    As we look back to that enthralling Test series in India, we have two guests propping up our bar to cogitate on that and much more besides. Anindya has been busy penning his thoughts on whether or not India saw the death of Bazball as a strategy. If you haven’t read “Death of a Strategy? The Curious Case of 'Bazball' in India” then we can heartily recommend it. You can find it here.
     
    We also welcome the late Sagir Parkar. Not “late as in in the late Dentarthurdent”, but apparently detained on his way to the pub by a traffic accident.
    He picks up the pace of conversation like a pro though.
     
    It’s a lively chat I can assure you we answer many questions as we go including:
     
    ·     Was Baz ball battered?
    ·     England’s dilemmas
    o  One attitude – flexible approach?
    o  Making way for Brook?
    o  Duckett’ technique (and his dog)?
    o  Leach – should he stay or should he go?
    ·     Will the Jazz Whale stay in tune wherever he plays?
    ·     Jimmy 700 – For a fast bowler a record that will never be beaten?
    ·     New Zealand against Australia – Is it a mental thing?
    ·     Fire up the clown car – who wants tickets to the IPL circus?
     
     
    Whether you agree with any of the answers is of course, entirely up to you, but do get in touch and let us know.
     
     
    Cheers!
     
    Your Ursine Landlord and Episcopal Barman
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    • 1 hr 7 min
    The Bear and The Bishop Ep69

    The Bear and The Bishop Ep69

    Sæll og velkominn til Biskups og Björn
     
    I’m not sure you can ever fully trust Google Translate, but that should be Icelandic for “Hello and welcome to the Bishop and Bear”. If you happen to speak fluent Icelandic and it accidentally says something else, I can only apologise. Blame the landlord not the barman.
     
    There is a reason we have gone full Icelandic though. Our guest on the Barstool of Bravado this week is Kit Harris. Not only assistant editor of Wisden but also author the extraordinary “From Lords to the Fjords – The Saga of Icelandic Cricket”.
     
    From Lord’s to the Fjords is the uproarious tale of cricket in Iceland: how the national press believed a stag party from Oxford were the official England team, how Sky Sports accidentally sent a crew to televise an Icelandic Cricket Cup final that didn’t exist, how the lead singer of Iron Maiden flew a passenger jet into a match under the midnight sun, how Henry Blofeld umpired in a blizzard on top of an ice cap, how the Iceland team was sold to the world’s public and became a viral Twitter sensation (incurring the wrath of Jofra Archer), how an Icelandic ‘mystery spinner’ signed for an Indian Premier League team, how the Iceland team fulfilled their dreams by playing their first international match – and how historical evidence proves that the Vikings were absolutely, definitely playing cricket in the tenth century.
     
    It's a fantastic read so we’ve included a below where you can avail yourself of it.
     
    Don’t worry there’s plenty of other cricket chat too as we cast an eye over events in India, discuss how to engineer more playing time for young spin bowlers, lament the frustrations that seem to surround Ollie Robinson and even look ahead to what’s coming up in The Wisden 2024 Almanac published in April.

    Here’s that link we promised for “From Lords to the Fjords”.
     
     
     
    Cheers!
     
    Your Ursine Landlord and Episcopal Barman
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    • 1 hr 3 min
    The Bear and The Bishop Ep68

    The Bear and The Bishop Ep68

    Welcome back to the Bishop and Bear – the internet’s favourite virtual cricket pub (probably).
     
    Well, it was a right old battering for England in Rajkot. The young Jazz Whale played all the right notes in exactly the right order and there were way too many bum notes from England against Bumrah and co. The Yorkshire middle order of Root and Bairstow looks under pressure and out of sorts. Can they battle their way back into some form in Ranchi? Ben Stokes thinks the pitch there looks “interesting very interesting” to appropriate the words of the great Barry Davies.
     
    Our guest this week is the ever-erudite Forthy, who joins your ursine landlord and episcopal barman to ask and attempt to answer some of the questions vexing England’s management. If indeed they ever do get vexed, which at least to external eyes they seem not too. We also celebrate the power of Indian run scoring and dig a bit behind Jay Shah’s comments that Indian players shouldn’t prioritise the IPL over domestic cricket.
     
    Here is a rough idea of the topics we chat and drink our way through:
     

    Bazball out Bazzed in Rajkot

    What do we expect in Ranchi?

    Strong Yorkshire Strong England – what’s in the heads of Root and Bairstow?

    “BCCI says don’t prioritise IPL over domestic cricket” – sorry what??!!

    Umpires Call – is it the blind the leading the blind? (Sorry Joel!)


    Settle in, enjoy your drink and do please get in touch and let us know what you think.
    Cheers!
     
    Your Ursine Landlord and Episcopal Barman
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    • 56 min
    The Bear and The Bishop Ep67

    The Bear and The Bishop Ep67

    Once again, a very warm welcome to the Bishop and Bear. We’re enjoying a little bit of breathing space between the 2nd and 3rd India Tests and the England team are enjoying themselves too with golf and family time in Abu Dhabi. Not Rehan Ahmed though. The lad thinks golf is for old men and he’ll be catching up with a Turkish TV series about the Ottoman Empire instead.
    Our guest this week is no stranger to the bar in the old Bishop and Bear. She has a stool and pint glass with her name on it. It’s the one and only St Annie, county cricket natterer and matterer supreme. And there is so much to talk about, starting with the dismissal, or rather non-dismissal, that has had our Guerilla WhatsApp group in a lather of excessively verbose opinion.
    So here are the things we meander our way through with plenty of detours en route.
    ·     Neil Brand – out or not out?
    ·     Visakhapatnam Test
    o  20’s and 30s don’t win you Tests (Alastair Cook)
    o  Blowing the Jazz Whale’s trumpet
    o  Brilliant Bumrah
    o  Jimmy Jimmy
    o  Can Shoaib, Tom and Rehan learn fast enough to haul England back in front?
    o  Is Joe Root trying too hard to Bazz?
    o  Runs in Rajkot
    o  Changes for Third Test?
    ·     South Africa C getting what CSA deserve in New Zealand?
    ·     U19 World Cup – India and Aus into the final
    ·     County Cricket Matters – What’s coming up?
     
    Settle in, enjoy your drink and do please get in touch and let us know what you think.
     
    Cheers!
     
    Your Ursine Landlord and Episcopal Barman
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    • 48 min
    The Bear and The Bishop Ep66

    The Bear and The Bishop Ep66

    Get your Kicks in the Bishop and Bear 66! With due deference to Bobby Troupe who wrote Route 66 (and not a lot of people know that), perhaps not even Joe Root who wears 66 on the back of his shirt of course.
     
    What a week for Test Cricket, culminating in its own Super Sunday. Two incredible Tests, two extraordinary results. Three heroes in the form of Shamar Joseph, Ollie Pope and Tom Hartley. The latter, we think, bears an uncanny resemblance to the great Hedly Verity. Google some pictures and see what you think.
     
    It really was riches indeed for Test cricket fans and on our Barstools of Bravado, your ursine landlord and episcopal barman are joined by two passionate and knowledgeable guests. Aryan Surana, our resident Guerilla news hound and the irrepressible David Brook, represent India and the West Indies, but take a refreshingly non-partisan view of events.
     
    Fortified with rum and coffee, we dive not just into the two matches, but more importantly perhaps, the statement they have made in the context of challenges faced by Test Cricket generally. And we answer important questions like “How far is it from Old Trafford to Hyderabad? Just what was did the Windies put in Shamar’s magic toe spray? And exactly how should we pronounce Visakhapatnam”?
     
    For good measure, we tackle KP’s tweet asking for people’s opinions on the balance of T20’s and Tests, so grab yourself a drink at the bar and settle in to enjoy the chat.
     
    Cheers!
     
    Your Ursine Landlord and Episcopal Barman
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    • 1 hr 8 min

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