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Douglas Heath began his lifelong love affair with cricket as an 8 year-old schoolboy playing OWZAT? Whilst listening to a 160s Ashes series on the radio. He later became half-decent at doing John Arlott impressions and is a member of Middlesex County Cricket Club. He holds no truck at all with the T20 version on the game. More Posts

Second day of Test

In a day of slowish scoring of less than 300 hundred runs in total, a third of them scored by Rory Burns and Jonny Bairstow, the main feature of the day was its dedication to the Ruth Strauss Foundation. At the risk of sounding like Victor Meldew I was not sure about this. Charity is a matter of [...]

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

Rain, rain, go away

Today I’m going to Lords for the start of the Ashes Test. It’s highly likely I will not see a ball bowled. If it ends as a draw England will have to win two and draw one of the remaining three to recover the Ashes. Unlikely. More likely more rain and they cannot get Steve Smith out. Steve Smith [...]

August 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

The World Cup final

This match was surely the greatest argument for the I-was-there brigade which included me in the Great Rust Debate. Never mind that my earpiece was attached to TMS all day whose commentary was superb and crucially on top of the rule requirements to decide a winner that the match itself nor [...]

July 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Large margins

A cliche you often hear is “small margins”. It actually means in reality the rub of the green. No one would use the phrase to describe Sussex’s defeat by Northants of 393 runs (a record defeat) or England ‘s 119 run victory over New Zealand. With Middlesex lying bottom of the second [...]

July 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

England fail (yet again)

Were I a prophet I suppose I would derive a smug satisfaction in questioning from the outset England’s credentiala to win the ICC World Cup but as it was I paid out a lot of money, had 2 unbearable rail journeys and lost my distance glasses – all to witness the sorry spectacle of craven [...]

June 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

England lose but the tournament wins

England’s defeat came as a surprise to many but not the Sports Rusters who were more doubtful of their chances. Had England won, then next week we would have matches between the top four (Australia, England, India, New Zealand) and meaningless games between the rest. Now the rest have some [...]

June 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

Australia v Sri Lanka

The petering out of Australia v Sri Lanka blows the theory that limited over cricket is necessarily more exciting than the Test/county variety. Sri Lanka, set a high total (334), made a good fist of it of it. At one stage they were 153-1 but once they started losing wickets ( 7 for 42 runs) it was [...]

June 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

England lose a classic

I will leave our readers to the media reports of this match against Pakistan, England’s poor fielding and batting; mercurial Pakistan: the excessive throwing of the ball into the deck to soften it up; the potential suspension of Eoin Morgan for a slow over rate will all be covered, but having [...]

June 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

ICC WORLD CUP- will England win?

I am a tad doubtful if favourites England will win the forthcoming World Cup. I base this on the fact that favourites often do not win World Cups and in a 50 over cricket match you are particularly vulnerable to losing a one-off game. There are other factors too: the injuries are so frequent that [...]

May 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

Rained off

The phenomenon of a wash-out due to incessant rain is something we expect in England but not in Grenada a country in the throes of a drought. The National Stadium has no floodlights, unlike the football stadium next door, so by 2.00 pm (6pm British time) it was clear that no match would be possible [...]

February 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

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