cricket with balls

Mr Panic enters the frame with his attempt to win a signed copy of the year of the balls 2008: a disrespective by giving us, in 200 words or less, an explanation of how cricket with balls is ruining cricket. Can you do better? cwb@cricketwithballs.com

Who needs two hundred words to describe the disastrous effect good ole uncle j rod has had on cricket? I can do it in three.

Darren ‘eyelids’ Pattinson (i’m not even english, and i know how bad that is).

In fact, there has been a horrible proliferation of Victorian cricketers playing internationally (i mean, dirty dirk at holland? wtf?).

The rise of uncle j has coincided with the rise of Victorian cricket, and (coincidently? i think not) the fall of australian cricket.

And don’t think he doesn’t know it – the bastard fled the country.

Now he writes from a ship moored off england in international waters (i imagine) where he can impune the good name of the ICC at leisure, surviving on a diet of twenty20 KFC meals a day, and ricky ponting brand (TM) vitamin supplements (just to be healthy).