Possible Clues:

• Bowling toll!
• Thinks too much of bowlers' statistics
• Thinks too much of Gove (prat) — he's sacked heads about reading?
• Extends too much credit?
• Estimates too highly
• More than 88, perhaps, one makes too much of this
• One makes too much of nines, by the sound of it
• Values too highly
• Bowling charges?
• Makes too much of cricket statistics