3 minute readGed writes: Daisy and I happened to be staying near Chennai on the day of the South Africa v Zimbabwe warm-up match. It must have been fate. At least, that’s what I told Daisy. We had arranged to tour Kanchipuram and Mahabalipuram that day, with a recommended early start and
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Hampshire v Surrey CB40 match report
2 minute readSam writes: It was a bank holiday, the latest in what seemed like a never-ending string of bank holidays. The weather was clear and breezy. We put our washing out to dry using a makeshift washing line running from the window of our first floor flat and tied to an
Continue readingInterstate competition, Bhawaripatnam v Konta at Jagdalpur – match report
3 minute readGed Ladd writes: Bunty is a big cheese in Jagdalpur – he and our guide Jolly’s family have just opened this new Bastar Jungle Resort and we were their first English guests. Soon chat turned to cricket. “Oh you like cricket”, said Bunty. “You must visit my hotel in town
Continue readingLal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad match preview
2 minute readGed writes: The weather is glorious and the people are extremely friendly. They have named a bazaar after my pseudonym – Lad Bazaar is the place in Hyderabad for bangles and boy is it sparkly. Our guide reluctantly takes us to the Lal Bahadur stadium, explaining that the big matches
Continue readingPakistan v Australia Lord’s match report
2 minute readWill writes: Despite being a Thursday, it was actually the fourth day of what is now, with hindsight, the totally ironically named MCC Spirit of Cricket Test Series. I had bought the tickets a year before with the intention of taking clients and having a drunken day out on the
Continue readingIndia v Australia Bangalore Test match report
3 minute readRitesh writes: It was my last day as a Bangalore resident – I was saying goodbye to the city after calling it home for seven years. It was a time for quiet reflection, for spending quality time with friends and eventually for inebriated celebration. Time, in other words, for a
Continue readingEngland v Pakistan 2010 Oval Test, day two match report
2 minute readBradders writes: One year on from my wedding, I was again confronted with the prospect of missing more cricket. This year, however, we had decided to have our anniversary in London rather than Ireland, therefore enabling us to go to the Oval for day two of the third Test. Technically,
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< 1 minute readBradders writes: My wife Pauline and I were married on the 20th August 2009 in Adare, southern Ireland. Due to it being the first day of the final Test of the Ashes series, it was obviously a momentous day. Having booked the wedding a year before (and prior to the
Continue readingEngland v Pakistan at the Rose Bowl – match report
2 minute readWe told Sam that we would ‘get this one up before the Ashes at the very latest’. Sam writes: I finish work early on Wednesdays, so I dashed home in order to catch the remainder of the final one-day international between England and Pakistan. Being far too brassic to afford
Continue readingEngland v Australia, Adelaide 2010 match report
3 minute readDandy Dan writes: Some months ago myself, Price and the so-called ‘Will’ (from String’s Oval match report) organised a weekend of watching some comedy Scottish football and staying up through the night to watch something happening on the other side of the world. Unfortunately, whilst Price was able to catch
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