Sticky Wicket: The Yips

Whilst the ICC Champions Trophy trudges dull-ly along with scant chance of seeing any sort of exciting gamesplay, I thought I start a feature that looked at the quirkier side of cricket. It might turn out as a sort of cricketing glossary. Similar to the feature that Channel4 used to run, before they stupidly gave up the rights lost the cricket, the name of which I’ve forgotten*. That said, it was a much better feature than Sky’s Willow and Stumpy a godawful animated pool of cricketing sputum.
So in this inaugural edition, I’m covering a peculiar affliction that doesn’t apply only …read more