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First day of the County Championship

Yesterday was the first day of the Championship and I was at Hove to herald it. With a high gusty wind it was bitterly cold but thankfully no rain and uninterrupted play. It was good to be there and see old friends. Sussex CCC are very much in transition. Gone are stalwarts ex-skipper Ben Brown, [...]

April 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

Photo session at Hove & Peter Shilton Dinner

Yesterday was a full on sporting day with a photo session of our Players Club at Hove Cricket Ground and a football dinner at the RAC where Peter Shilton was the guest of honour. I arrived at Hove at 8-50. Although I turned 68 recently I still get a kick out of seeing the ground albeit empty. [...]

April 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Root & Branch?

The dominant view appears to be that Joe Root should give up the captaincy but I do not share this. It should wait for a new Director of Cricket (yet to be appointed) and Head Coach (yet to be appointed) and Chairman of the ESB (yet to be appointed). There is talk of Ed Smith coming back after he [...]

March 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

English cricket – the winners & losers

After the report into the Ashes debacle the winners and losers have emerged. The clearest winner is skipper Joe Root. There seems no viable alternative. He is by some distance our most effective batter and is popular in the group. So he stays with if anything his position strengthened. His weakness [...]

February 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on the Ashes

I’m sure readers would not appreciate another depressing piece on the Ashes debacle down under. I will merely quote that model of concision after a Cabinet reshuffle Clement Attlee: “Not good enough” I will highlight the coverage. Normally I follow TMS during the night but yesterday, as I [...]

January 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

Coverage of the Fourth Test

As I write this towards the end of the third day with England struggling, I would rather post on the coverage particularly the Aussie contribution. When I was last in Australia 5  years ago there was no journalist I enjoyed more than Gideon Haigh in The Australian. The newspaper was given out free [...]

January 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

English cricket – the inquest begins (again)

The records have it that the first-ever international cricket match – between the United States of America and Canada, no less – took place at the grounds of the St George’s Cricket Club in New York in 1844. A English professional cricket touring team mounted the first-ever [...]

December 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

The sporting day

My day starts in the early hours with the Test Match commentary. The written press is one day behind and if England did not have such a disastrous final hour – losing 4 wickets – their doom and gloom would have looked foolish. Jimmy Andersen has come in for lot of flak – [...]

December 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

Brighton 2 Brentford 0

Brighton achieved their first win since September after completing the double over Brentford. In the absence of central defenders Lewis Dunk, Shane Duffy and Joel Veltman, Adam Webster and Dan Burn took the central berths in a flat back-four flanked by exciting attacking full backs Qadir Lamptey [...]

December 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on the second test

That Joe Root led from the front after a painful injury amidships and the England resistance extended to the second session of the final day must not disguise the fact that this was an inept performance against an Aussie side bereft of their captain and two key bowlers – Pat Cummins and Josh [...]

December 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

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