(click v Hampshire Hogs for full post and to watch vlog)
It pissed down. Didn’t want to play. One of our players stormed off calling our captain unprintable things. Got out to a raspberry blower bowler.
(click v Incogniti to read full post )
Incogs were a great wondering side once. When I’ve played against them, they have had a hardcore of old men and the rest are ringers and overseas pros.
(click v Cryptics to read full post and watch vlog)
Runs, runs and at a decent pace until I was caught at deep long off. I quickly forgot that Cryptics bowled with a sodden ball, that they didn’t have a proper keeper, that the legside boundary was tiny etc.
(click v Royal … to read full post and watch vlog)
This wicket is a bloody road. Got 30 and then holed out. RAF had one speedster who’d played for Durham. He says they timed him in the mid 80s. He was a bit too quick for my liking. I tried to pull him and was so late on the shot that the ball ended up at short cover.
(click v Quidnuncs to read full post and watch vlog)
Quidnuncs are a Cambridge University side for cricket blues and near blues.
(click v United.. read full post and watch vlog)
What do you do when you chide your batting partner for ambling a single that could have been two and he barks at you ‘get back in your cage mate, I know you don’t score very many’.
(click v Richmond to read full post)
I played for this club in the past and couldn’t buy a run for them. I came -a la Greig- to make them grovel but was ormsbygored by a half blind, half deaf ‘home’ umpire for a two ball duck.
(click v Milton … to read full post and watch vlog)
I scored 59 but my count on film says it’s 67. They weren’t the worst attack in the world. They weren’t the best attack either. I rode my luck and survived several chances.
(click Cricket week… to read full post and watch vlog)
Hell, it rained all week. Not a ball bowled. I spent a bit of the winter sending missives about the sorry state the of ex inmates cricket week. When I saw the fixtures for the ‘week’, there was marmalade on my kitchen walls. God, get a life. I wish I could.
(click v Bradfield.. to read full post)
A 2 day game, 2 innings and god blessed Berkshire with 2 days of sun. First innings was abject. I edged two 4’s through the slips and finally guided one to the keeper’s gloves. This is personal. This game is telling me something.