All Out Cricket Issue No.40
It's January. It's cold, wet, and England aren't winning Test matches. It's all a bit of a struggle. It would have been easy for us to rest up over Christmas and go through the motions. But you, dear reader, you deserve so much better than that.
But what, exactly? For starters you deserve an exclusive Q&A with Monty Panesar, covering, amongst many other things, beards, faith, celebration techniques, and his greatest ever deliveries.
Your loyalty also merits a top ten rundown of England's tours from hell - this one's not for the fainthearted - as well as the best first-hand account of their latest tour to Sri Lanka from our own very talented Mr Graeme ‘Swanny's Diary' Swann. Plus Owais Shah, opens up to Charmeyne McCollin whilst kicking his heels in Sri Lanka. And staying on the international scene, we study the implications of another controversial heavy-duty month of Test cricket.
Also coming your way is a cracking feature with Messrs. Read and Jones, and Craig White talks us through his brilliant career. Elsewhere there's an appreciation of Mark Alleyne, a cheeky book extract, the sharpest comment from the biggest shakers, a few hit-and-miss jokes, Chris Cairns on the ICL, Clive Lloyd's (truly wonderful) fantasy slip cordon, and to cap it all we've got a big fat bumper picture quiz, with a top-notch Vodafone camera phone to give away to one lucky punter.
But the feature that will really warm your soul in this, the coldest month, is the ‘I Love Cricket' cover story, where modern heroes, from David Gower to David Lloyd to office junior Sammy, reveal the moments, events and places that first left them in love with our great game.
All this in January! Don't say we don't try...
We hope you enjoy reading AOC. To extend your subscription (especially if you fancy getting your hands on a free copy of International Cricket Captain III), 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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