Articles by Douglas Heath

About Douglas Heath

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

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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