Like most cricket fans, I love stats. I can’t get enough of them. Anyone who has ever played against Iver Heath will tell you that we are a team obsessed with the darned things. We can tell members of the opposition exactly how many runs they got in a day against us, what the bowling figures were, what colour socks they wore. Even if we don’t know the answer, we put across such a compelling argument that you end up believing us.

I’m one of the worst. I used to maintain the clubs stats until it got to the point where I’d wake up in the middle of the night to see what the club record partnership was between two batsmen with surnames beginning with the letter Y. It had to stop. I passed on the scorebooks to our skipper and have let him have the sleepless nights instead.

Anyway, the point of all this is that I’ve spent a bit of time today looking at my Google stats. I wanted to see what people were typing into the search engine to find Flintoffs Ashes.

Unsurprisingly 54% of all searches contain the word “ashes” and 32% of all searches contain “Flintoff”.

For the 7.8% of people looking for words to the Barmy Army songs, click here

For the 4.3% of people who are looking for Barmy Army merchandise, click on the link to the left or visit The SportsHQ

Now it gets interesting…

2.2% of all searches are looking for pictures of players wives.

1.3% contain the word “twat”.

3.2% of people are looking for the songs written by Aussie comedian Greg Champion so perhaps I’ll revise the twat count to 4.5%.

For the person looking for pictures of Andrew Flintoffs sister, I’m afraid I can’t help. Will the picture of Dawn French help you?

Finally, and without doubt my favourite, will whoever typed “you smell of wee” into Google please let me know exactly what you were looking for?

Tags : Cricket, The Ashes, England, Australia, Flintoff, Google, Barmy Army