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The Border-Gavaskar trophy between Australia and India has done much to enhance and elevate the status of Test cricket. India won the First Test in Perth – Australia levelled the series in Adelaide – and the Third Test in Brisbane was a washout draw. Australia won the Fourth Test in [...]

January 5, 2025 // 0 Comments

Australia beat India in Melbourne Test

The Melbourne Test Match, played before a record crowd, proved to be an eventful and absorbing match as well as instructive as England will play both India and Australia in 2025. Australia won comfortably in a ding-dong battle after India collapsed after tea 0n the final day. India can add Reddy, [...]

December 31, 2024 // 0 Comments

What’s going wrong at Brighton?

Some might argue “Nothing at all” as the Seagulls, at the time of writing, are 9th. Yet they are winless in 4 games and have lost the last two London derbies 3-1 to Fulham and Crystal Palace – the latter, on Sunday, being hard to take as it was against our great rivals. We have [...]

December 18, 2024 // 0 Comments

England win Test series 2-0.

It may have passed your notice as sporting events and achievements outside the UK are sparsely covered but New Zealand, without Kane Williamson, won their series in India this year 3-0. The odds on this were 2000-1. England lost theirs in Pakistan 1-2. After winning the first Test, Pakistan [...]

December 8, 2024 // 0 Comments

London 2014/2124

Ten years ago I made my momentous decision to leave London for the South Coast. I was born in London and regarded myself as a Londoner. My closest friend- alas now passed – opined that I would be back in 2 years if I could afford the housing prices. I can see the attraction and attractions of [...]

November 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

One Hell of a Life/biography of Brian Close by Stephen Chalke

Personally, whilst I respected Brian Close, not least for his often reckless courage, he was never a favourite of mine – there was too much of the curmudgeonly Yorkshireman for me. Stephen Chalke is more sympathetic of “Closey”. Close had the longest first class career of any [...]

October 19, 2024 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on a great England Test victory overseas

England’s Test victory by an innings and 47 runs deservedly made the sporting headlines but still had to vie with the 1-2 defeat in soccer by Greece. The wicket at Multan was docile which made the Pakistan collapse on the fourth and fifth days all the more inexplicable. The Test will be [...]

October 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex crowned champions

Sussex had to score 250 runs yesterday – only the second day of four – against third-placed Middlesex. James Coles They did so – when play was possible – to achieve the bonus point needed for promotion as Champions, thanks to centuries from both John Simpson (my player of [...]

September 30, 2024 // 0 Comments

Cricketing national identities

Reading articulate and well-informed books on post-War Caribbean cricket led me to the scarcely original theory that cricket is not played in that many countries but each has an identity  and style of its own. The West Indies dominated cricket for 20 years under Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards but no [...]

September 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex win in the cold

I went to Hove yesterday and left at midday as I could not take the icy wind. The championship has been book-ended with a chilly spring and autumn. Still, Sussex easily beat Glamorgan by an innings and 87 runs and now top the second division with 200 points – 37 clear of Yorkshire and 52 of [...]

September 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

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