(click v Sherborne to read/watch blog and vlog)
v Sherborne
Spent 3 days before fighting stomach/swine flu. But with a game, decent lunch and a hundred still to get, I found the best natural vaccine to quell a killer pandemic.
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v Winchmore Hill
Ah back in league cricket after my fortnight attempting to bully schoolboys and proper umps for the match. Panel men for a home game at the Walker; sunny day, the skipper won the toss and a placid looking pitch; great day to score a ton. “Can you do 8 for me and start the scoring and er do the first 10 overs yeah” the captain said
the Close, v Rugby
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Another go at bullying schoolboys. I was succesful this time. Though once again I saw little of the strike.
v College, Marlborough
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It was good to get away from league cricket . Read the last post to see just what a lot of bertie’s league cricketers can be. At some stage I’ll show you the letter/pack of lies written by Barnet Barclay’s to the Middlesex league. Thank god I tape some of these games. The mendacious boghouse banisters didn’t know it was all on film.
v Barnet Barclay’s CC
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This is the first league game I’ve blogged about this season. After what happened on saturday, you might understand my reluctance to write about league cricket. I joined a new club. They’ve been fair. They gave me starts in first team cup games but told me to work my way up their four teams. So I started in the 3rds, got dropped to the 4ths, went up to the 3rds, scored 85, took five wickets v Harrow 3rds , into the 2nds where I’ve remained. There are three 2nd team divisions. We play in league one. The standard’s good.
All this stuff took place last tuesday and thursday. I turned up for nets and there were Pakistan; training at the Walker. White balls disappeared. Not mine though. I sat out Afridi’s onslaught. I think the best bit was talking to Pakistan’s bowling coach about my third team dobbers not knowing who the hell he was. All wavy black [...]
I used to develop tv docs and there were programmes you’d pass up a hundred to sell. Series 2 of Empire of cricket last night was one such programme. I recieved a review copy last week and it was brilliant documentary tv. The opening film on English cricket was a tough one to start with. 1 hour to cover the history [...]