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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

Paying by numbers

At a lively restaurant lunch for six yesterday (Sunday 22nd June) to mark the departure from these shores of my 92 year-old aunt’s highly-regarded and indeed beloved carer, my father quietly arranged with the manager that he – not his sister – would pay the bill. For some reason, when he was [...]

June 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fings ain’t wot they used t’be

Today the England cricket team plays the latest in its One Day International series against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford. On 12th June at Leeds its equivalent will begin the First Test against the same country. Unless something extraordinary happens, I shall be watching little or nothing of either. [...]

May 31, 2014 // 0 Comments

Cricket and betting at Hove actually

Sitting at Hove, I found it hard to imagine that this most sedate of county grounds – with its sea air, deck chairs surrounded by the leafy streets of Hove with Jewish Sephardic names ( Goldsmid St, Avigdor St, Montefiore Place) – could produce the betting scandal that took place [...]

May 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sussex sport

Sussex punches above its weight in sport. Brighton and Hove Albion FC is one of the best supported teams in the country, never mind the championship in which they reached the play offs: there is fine horse racing at Goodwood: Eastbourne has a leading speedway team and top level tennis is played at [...]

May 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Aussies are back

Australia are back atop the rankings after thrashing England and winning 2-1 in South Africa. They have a new crop of youngsters like Steve Smith, a rejuvenated Mitchell Johnson, but much of the credit must go to work off the pitch. Rodney Marsh replaced John Inverarity as Chairman of Selectors and [...]

May 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Certainty has its positive side

Nearly seven months ago, I injured my right hip/thigh playing golf. My partner and I were leading the competition – geographically, I should add, not on the scoreboard – and decided to stride out and ‘yomp’ the last nine holes because we were taking so long looking for our lost balls that [...]

April 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

What goes around comes around

Over the weekend the crisis in Ukraine deepened at least two notches as Russian-backed militia overran several Ukrainian military bases in the Crimea and General Philip Breedlove, supreme commander of NATO, warned that the Russian military forces now massed on the Ukrainian border could be [...]

March 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

West Indian cricket

Watching England contrive lo lose a ODI they dominated last night, I tuned into an enjoyable conversation between Sir Ian Botham and Courtly Ambrose. They discussed Antiguan cricket, which once produced Viv Richards, Richie Richardson, Andy Roberts and Ambrose. Those were the days when the Windies [...]

March 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Johnners

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the passing of Brian Johnston, Johnners to one and all,  Radio 4 Extra had a three hour programme presented by Rory Bremner. It’s doubtful in today’s diverse BBC that Etonian Johnners, with his stink bombs in the tuck box mentality, would have [...]

January 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

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