Let’s not hear it for the County Championship

By Richard Clarke, AKA The Grumbler

Far be it from me to disagree with heavy metal gods AC/ DC, but rock’n’roll may, in reality, be noise pollution.
Definitely, when it’s applied without thought to sports like cricket
We’re used to five-second acoustic assaults during Blast games. That is fast and furious cricket for the generation who enjoy movies of the identical name.
Nevertheless, it’s telling that football, the game that has captured the young and precious audience that short-form cricket was designed to focus on, has never needed in-game music. So I used to be surprised to listen to the gang at a recent Pr…