AOC Issue No.38
It may be the English off-season, but AOC knows sleeping is for wimps, and with world cricket now a never-ending flying circus that barely stops for a minute, there's always some good stuff to get stuck into.
It's over two months since England played a Test match, which seems like an age to us, if not to the players themselves, some of whom openly fear burn-out. But one man who can't play enough cricket is Michael Vaughan. As Joni Mitchell once warbled, "you don't know what you've got ‘til it's gone," and in Vaughany's case, we never knew just how important he was to this England team until he was forced out of it. Now he is back - fit, hungry, and just as good - and in an AOC exclusive he tells Andy Afford exactly what the future holds.
And our build-up to the Test series gathers pace with a profile of king of the slingers, Lasith Malinga, and a fascinating chat with Sri Lanka's majestic Kumar Sangakkara. Talking as elegantly as he bats, he puts the cricket world to rights in conversation with Phil Walker.
Then there's all the other stuff. A cracking top ten of genius performances from absolutely nowhere, ten pages of definitive photography from 2007, a Monty Panesar extract from his autobiography, Graeme Swann's account of England duty in his now famous diary, an appreciation of Darren Lehmann, and a trip through the ages with Andy Caddick. What else? Colly's slippers, Al Gore, errant monkeys, books, games, tunes, Gracie Fields, split fingers, spring onions...
Oh, and we turn the Darrell Hair ball tampering baloney into a Shakespearian farce in four acts - at the risk of being typecast, AOC plays The Fool.
We hope you enjoy reading AOC. To extend your subscription (especially if you like our current offer of three issues for just one English pound), or to subscribe for a friend or cricket-loving relative, go to www.alloutcricket.co.uk or call 0870 458 3778
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