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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

Assessing the Ashes

When the sports editor asked me for a piece to preview the Ashes my heart dropped. There has been so much hot air in the media, so much raking up of old incidents and generating new confrontation that I suspect most cricket followers like me would really like battle to commence, as it will this [...]

July 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

The gap between reality and ‘how things should be’

At the outset of this piece I wish to stress that it merely represents my opinion and gut instinct. You could argue that opening with a statement such as this is nothing but a slimy ‘get out’ device designed to avoid or deflect accusations that what I’m about to express has no basis in [...]

July 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Mike Brearley and the Art of Captaincy

A few years ago I was invited to Lords by the treasurer of Middlesex for a game by the touring West Indies. Mike Brearley was there too, in sandals, and after lunch I stood next to him on the balcony.  If your definition of a good analyst is adding value then Mike Brearley was in a class of his [...]

July 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

When sport disappoints

Sport is a life-enhancing part of life, or it ought to be. We spectators come to it every time expecting or hoping to be lifted out of our mundane existences and transported to a world in which magical things happens and we can marvel at the athletic skills of people more talented than ourselves. [...]

June 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Yorkshire fails?

Yorkshire has never been more powerful or prominent in cricket than today. ECB  Chairman Yorkshireman Colin Graves will this week be officially in situ though when he was not he still labelled the West Indies “mediocre” ; half the English side could bear the white rose  (Lyth, Root, [...]

May 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Someone’s gotta do it

When I was at school, most chaps worth their salt were sport-obsessed – following the fortunes of individuals and/or club, county or international teams – if not also participating themselves at whatever level their talents justified. Within the ‘participating’ subset, at my rather [...]

May 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Test Match Special

One institution that has consistently maintained its reputation for commentary is Test Match Special. I am old enough to remember Norman Yardley, one of th last amateurs  to captain England, but grew up with John Arlott and Brian Johnston, though the two did not get on. Johnners and Aggers [...]

May 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Robin Marlar Cricket collection

Yesterday I attended an auction of the Robin Marlar cricketing collection at the Boundary Rooms Hove Cricket Ground. Marlar, 84 years young,  captained Sussex and was a figurehead in the revolution of 1997. He was an outspoken cricket correspondent and stood as candidate in full and bye elections. [...]

April 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Surrey

There is a film whose name escapes me of an American arriving at Victoria. Seeing a billboard “England in crisis” he asks the newspaper vendor what it’s all about and is informed it’s a test match against Australia. The American heads off to the Oval where a spectator, Miles [...]

April 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Cricket blue print

The one day final was too one-sided to be any sort of contest. Most ODIs coming after the test series are an unwelcome bore yet, after England’s poor performance, it looks like our traditional system will be overhauled. Tom Hollingworth wrote an excellent article stating that England across [...]

March 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

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