(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.
(click v Rugby to read full post)
I played here for the school XI when I was 15. I mention that with some pride but the truth is that half the team were ill or had exams so the last fit cricketer in the school got picked. We travelled up the night before. I got totally pissed and threw up in the middle of the night….
(click v Sherborne to read full post)
It’s was a bloody long way to Sherborne, a bloody long way to bat six and face four balls.
(click v Marlborough to read full post )
Arrived early and had a quick net. As the net finished, I heard those dreaded three words. ‘You are opening’. This time I asked why.
‘Well you are the only one padded up’.
‘Did you see me practising’ I asked?
We start in two minutes. Someone’s got to do it.
I was out for 11. I was going well.
(click v Hampshire… to read full post and watch vlog)
Cricket was easy again today. Well it felt easy for one or two boundaries. I was out for 29 but boy it felt like 192 at times.
(click v Unknown XI to read full post and watch vlog)
I turned out for a Schoolmaster’s XI against a bloody awful bowling attack. It was so bad that I scored 70 odd runs and retired 30 short of my hundred. A hundred spurned…..
(click v Wanderers..to read full post)
“Against your name the dark recorder, trace a circle”.