Welcome to The Cricket Slouch.

For a while now, since 2022, The Cricket Slouch has been a podcast for the average cricket fan and the more global fan in general and we have primarily covered test series, world cups, women’s cricket and also provided some coverage for cricket in emerging countries like Japan, the USA and Nigeria. Suffice to say that at TCS, we LOVE the stories that don’t fit neatly into a highlights reel or a scorecard.

Today, we’re stretching our legs into new territory: a cricket website, and with it we are extending an open invitation to anyone and everyone who is interested in writing about the sport. This is a place for the cricket writer who has a story to tell but nowhere to put it; a place for the fan in a country where cricket barely registers on the sports pages; a place for the obsessive in a cricket-mad nation who wants to write about something other than a routine match report or stats about control percentage and strike rate; a place where keen-eyed amateur analyst noticed something odd or funny, and couldn’t find a home for it anywhere else.

We’re not chasing hot takes on the latest T20 franchise tournaments, or the mega auctions, or frantic post-match reports — the big sites already do that, and they do it well.
What we want are the stories that either get overlooked or are an addendum in the margins of the major websites. We are chasing stories from cricket leagues in a city nobody associates with cricket, a forgotten cricketer who deserves a second look, the chaos and frustration of a rain delay from the stands via fan’s perspective, a satirical dig at the sport’s endless committees and controversies and administration gaffes, or simply what it feels like to love a game that your friends and neighbours may never have heard of. If it made you think, laugh, or shake your head, there’s a good chance it belongs here.

So consider this the open door. We don’t need a press pass, a famous byline, or a country with a Test team to take you seriously — just a decent story and the will to write it. Pitch it to us, send us a draft, or just say hello. The Cricket Slouch was always about the game’s odd angles, and we always will be. We have just given ourselves more room to share your stories with the rest of the fandom.