Hello, all. I'm launching this blog, JUST CRICKET, not particularly out of any want of readership or any other motive, except that I noticed recently that, as a cricket-lover, the popular Cricinfo/Wisden organizations were just not quite cutting it for me. I mean I love the sport, and understand most of its subtleties and what have you, but in my humble opinion Wisden is just a tad self-important and Cricinfo provides an odd mixture of convenience, overanalysis and opinionation. In addition, they provide a mostly English and/or Indian point of view, and I'd prefer they didn't. I'm from Pakistan, but I'll try to keep as neutral as possible.

Now in general I'm not much of a disestablishmentarianist, but then this isn't a disestablishmentarian blog. I'm not competing with Wisden (perish the thought! they've got far more resources, for one thing). It's just a blog (and magazine-hopeful, but these are early days) about cricket.