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The World Test: is it worth it?

The World Test Final had another day ( the fourth day) rained off yesterday and – although there is a reserve day and better weather forecast today at the Ageas Bowl – a draw seems likeliest and the question needs to be raised whether it is worthwhile in what is already a congested [...]

June 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

Crowd control

It’s an ironic issue that English football – having moaned the absence of crowds – is now presented with a tricky problem by their return. The problem is “taking the knee”. Gareth Southgate has consulted the England  players who are in favour. Fans are not and even [...]

June 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

England v New Zealand (third day)

After the washout on Friday we were rewarded by a glorious sunshine yesterday. We were also treated to the now familiar phenomenon of an England batting collapse. Joe Root went first ball and the wickets continued to tumble all morning. Only a stand between Ollie ‘Naughty Step’ Robinson and [...]

June 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

Lords: 1st day of England v New Zealand

It was such a delight to be back at Lords. Never mind the palaver of Covid restrictions which resulted in re-settlement in different seats when one of the benefits is your own seat. No restaurant was open but the bar was flourishing. I took in the new Edrich and Compton stands and did not much like [...]

June 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Northants ( day two)

Yestereday I returned to the County Ground Hove .   Stumps were drawn with the game well poised.   Sussex were 61 runs ahead but 4 wickets down in their second innings. Ben Brown and Tom Haines are at the crease but unless Henry Slocombe and Jack Carson put on another rearguard action for the [...]

May 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Northants (1st day)

After 20 months it was wonderful to watch cricket at Hove again. Henry Crocombe Sadly, Sussex’s performance did not match the exhilaration as, after winning the toss, they were at one stage just after lunch 67-8. Fortunately a 8th wicket stand of 99 by young bowlers Henry Crocombe and Jack [...]

May 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

Second jab

Yesterday, later than most, I had my second jab at the Brighton Racecourse. My first was on February 18 and I was getting a tad worried that I had received no notification about the second. The theme of this week’s Rust is speak to a human and I called the Racecourse hotline. The recorded message [...]

May 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

The art of serendipity

Like I suspect many Rusters I follow my colleague Algy Belville’s posts on the wine trade avidly and – though certainly I would never claim to be an expert – I should estimate that over the past six decades I have drunk very nearly my share of wines of every variety that any sane [...]

May 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

Sussex CCC and Brighton HAFC

The availability of – and access to – watching county matches on the stream service of their websites has proved a great success particularly in lockdown. Yesterday I enjoyed the key game between Lancashire and Sussex. Due to problems with the Hove pitch the match had to be moved a few [...]

May 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

Sussex CCC & Jack Carson

Sussex’s defeat yesterday by 48 runs to Yorkshire will attract only a few paragraphs in the sports pages but one young man will remember it for a longer time: Jack Carson. Carson scored a century in a final in his native Northern Ireland aged 11 which attracted the interest of Ed Joyce one of [...]

April 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

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