(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.
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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.
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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.