2 minute read Balladeer writes: One of the few things I knew was vital was preparation. One doesn’t just take any old food to The Home of Cricket. So I pondered my options. Waitrose? M&S? Selfridges, for the extra touch of privately educated class? Alas, I also had to pick up some washing
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Warwickshire v Middlesex match report
< 1 minute read You may or may not know that the one quality we always look for in a piece of writing is brevity. If you have submitted a match report and seen it hacked to a skeleton, you will know this. Ged has submitted countless match reports. We semi-regularly tell him to
Continue readingEngland v Australia at Old Trafford match report
3 minute read We went to the fifth one-day international between England and Australia. Cricket-wise, it was your quintessential damp squib, even if the weather was a beautifully sunny, warm, dry squib. The paper wallet in which the tickets arrived promised music, action and cricket, in that order. We assumed this was a
Continue readingEngland v Australia at Edgbaston – day three match report
3 minute read Ged Ladd’s smartphone, Ivan Meagreheart, writes: It can be exhilarating, being Ged Ladd’s smartphone; even after the bland ending to our Day Two, we were full of excitement ahead of Day Three. Ged woke me up and I was feeling 100% full of energy, which is as it should be.
Continue readingEngland v Australia at Edgbaston – day two match report
3 minute read Ged Ladd’s smartphone, Ivan Meagreheart, writes: It can be quite exhausting being Ged Ladd’s smartphone; day one of the Edgbaston Test had been such a day. Normally a good rest overnight and I recharge my batteries without difficulty, but I had a bad night and in the morning I felt
Continue readingEngland v Sri Lanka at Lord’s, day one – match report
4 minute read We weren’t going to do this, but when we started writing something else we sort of felt obliged to ‘fess up that we’d actually been at the ground yesterday and by that point a match report seemed unavoidable. New rule We always include a brief italicised outline of what we
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2 minute read Ivan Meagreheart The Smart Phone writes: It’s hard work being Ged Ladd’s smartphone. I get pretty run down by the end of most days. Still, there are perks. One of those perks is cricket. During the cricket season I get to look at the scores a heck of a lot.
Continue readingLord’s net practice – journey report
3 minute read Dumbo the Suzuki Jimny writes: Just a few days after Ged and Daisy went to the Lord’s Ashes Test and got all confused about etiquette, Ged asked me to take him out and about for the working day, to culminate at Lord’s, The Home of Cricket, for a net with
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3 minute read Ged writes: I prepared a splendid picnic, though I say so myself, for me and Daisy to enjoy on the Saturday of the Lord’s Ashes Test. Breakfast muffins stuffed with juicy coriander prawns was the centrepiece of the midday feast. The main event, though, was focaccia-wiches, containing Big Al deLarge’s
Continue readingMop-up of the last few days – it’s been a while
2 minute read Sorry the website was knackered. We’re sure you all missed us enormously. Web hosts being web hosts, we’ve no clear idea what actually happened, but it seemed like actual damage and not just someone flicking the wrong switch. At least there were backups. This contrasts with our old job where
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