3 minute readSam writes: A “board games day” had been arranged. It was to be held at our house. I wasn’t keen, but the weather had finally improved after what seemed like months of endless rain, so I suggested that rather than sitting inside all day we should go to the park.
Continue readingCategory: Regulars
Feline reaction to Andrew Strauss’s retirement from cricket
< 1 minute readIn the highly unlikely event that we’ve picked up a new reader in the last year, we should say that we have a feature on this website entitled animals being conspicuously indifferent to cricket. Lemon Bella’s cats, StraussCat and Meowcus Trescattick, have appeared on several occasions and we’re honoured to
Continue readingEngland v Australia day-night match report from Birmingham
3 minute readNe writes: We had arranged to meet at Marylebone station, in order to get the Chilterns Railways line up to Birmingham. This route had many advantages: firstly, on the day tickets are significantly cheaper than those offered by Virgin at Euston; secondly, the train nerd in APB (my travelling companion)
Continue readingWest Indies v New Zealand T20 International in Fort Lauderdale, Florida – match report
3 minute readDaneel writes: It’s a tough life being a cricket fan in the USA; no coverage on television and sometimes even TMS is blocked if the rights aren’t available over here. In desperation, I’ve had to resort to watching baseball. This wasn’t so bad when we were in Seattle. Although the
Continue readingEngland v West Indies Twenty20 international match report
2 minute readSam writes: We were moving house. Or rather, we had already moved house, and now we were back in the old house for a day of cleaning, painting, sorting and tidying. It was not going to be fun. On arrival, we got down to business in the bedroom (wink wink,
Continue readingUnder-11s match report
2 minute readBert writes: While the opening weeks of the 2012 County Championship season have brought continued glory for champions Lancashire, in the Ted’s Roofing (All your roofing needs met, by Ted) Mid-North Cestrian Third Division Championship League West, Old Filchonians Under 11s have made a somewhat less impressive start. Bert Junior
Continue readingPakistan v England in Abu Dhabi match report
2 minute readBradders writes: This was a curious day on which I learnt much. It began however, if not badly, certainly disappointingly. I shouldn’t complain of course seeing as it was a free day out but when you get an unexpected invite to a ‘Corporate Networking Day’ which just happens to be
Continue readingTino Best cups his balls in his left hand
< 1 minute readA ‘balls’ joke. You can tell we’re on holiday.
Continue readingWatch the bail, Ricky
< 1 minute readAs most of you know, this site uses pictures taken by Sarah Ansell. While perusing her site last week, we found this beauty: We like the way the ball is behind his head. As a batsman, it’s never good to have the ball behind your head. This is never more
Continue readingSlavishly copying Pakistan
< 1 minute readWe did a Cricinfo piece about ways England could slavishly copy Pakistan – because if you’re beaten by a particular side, it stands to reason that EVERYTHING they do is correct. One thing that we didn’t suggest was that England should try and get their opening bowlers incarcerated. We’re quite
Continue reading