The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

We should perhaps salute Loughborough University (Loughborough MCCU to be precise). In three early season bun fights against county sides they drew all three and in fact took first innings lead in all of them: against Leicestershire, Northants (where the University scored 553) and Derbyshire (where they scored 388).
The first two ranked as first-class matches. In the Leicester game they gave the county enough trouble that Charlie Shreck seems to have lost his cool and abused the batsman, so losing t...