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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

Sussex v Essex

The second division of the Championship is the poor relative of the cricket competitions meriting a wrap-up paragraph at the rear of the sports pages. One of these reasons for this is that a second division side can  still complete in the white ball competitions, indeed all 4 finalists in the [...]

April 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

The T20 Final

Correct me if I am wrong but if England win on Sunday this will be the only World Cup trophy they have won twice. We have certainly mastered the grammar of T20 cricket and much is due to Andrew Strauss who put the white ball game  high up the priority list. When he became Middlesex captain he [...]

April 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Third day of the Test

In an attritional day, after the fireworks of the previous, Amla played a captain’s innings to keep South Africa in the game. On a  pitch that offered the bowler of pace, swing or spin no succour, England must have rued the two chances of catching Amla that Anderson and Compton failed to [...]

January 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fourth day / first day, second test

In the great NR debate on attendance v home watching the quality of the stadium/venue plays a role and few are as beautiful as Newlands the scene of the second test. It’s aspected by a mountian range that gives as thrilling a back drop as a Western and by the sea. The stands are around the [...]

January 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be

For some Rust contributors and readers of my acquaintance, the 21st Century endless merry-go-round of the various forms of international, regional and city-based cricket has become a surfeit that leaves them hankering for the old days when men were men and prep school boys played soccer, hockey or [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

A fascinating cricket talk

Yesterday I went to Arundel Cricket  Club to hear Stephen  Chalke author of “Summer ‘ s Crown ” talk on county cricket.  I have already reviewed this superb celebration  of the County Championship.  In the flesh the writer is in his mid sixties, academic looking and bristling [...]

November 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Back to Blighty

Yesterday I and three family members, one a cousin who has lived in North America for the past forty years, returned to Blighty after a four-day tour of WW1 battlefields and cemeteries for which our guide was fellow Ruster Henry Elkins. The trip served us well on two counts – firstly, the [...]

September 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s all in the preparation

Next week I shall be part of a family group (one flying over from Seattle for the purpose) on a four-day tour of the cemeteries and battlefields of WW1 centred – because of an ancestor’s connection – around the centenary of the Battle of Loos which began on 25th September 1915. Guiding us [...]

September 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

World War Two and cricket

On September 1st 1939 the Nazis invaded Poland. Two days later Britain declared war. All but one cricket county championship was abandoned.  Sussex and Yorkshire played on as it was George Cox’s benefit. Hedley Verity took 7-9 in dismissing Sussex for 60. By the time Yorkshire had won there [...]

September 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

the Oval

Compared to the patrician Lords, The Kia Oval is the “people’s ground”… and they are welcome to it. I consider it one of the least attractive, untidiest sporting venues anywhere. As with many inner city stadia including Lords, Stamford Bridge or Craven Cottage, access too it [...]

August 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

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