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Once upon a time in the good old days of TMS, lengthy breaks in play were greeted with pleasure as the team could sustain a discussion on all matters cricket for hours on end. The modern broadcaster cannot so they have to pad out with replays of interviews, of the match and/or any other match. [...]

January 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

Cricketing issues.

It was an attritional third day at Newlands – “attritional” being cricket speak for dull. The crowd slow-handclapped on several occasions as England established a convincing lead. During the day I therefore examined some of the issues of the day and generally. The first was the [...]

January 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

Time to say goodbye

Its time to say goodbye to James Anderson and Stuart Broad. With an inexperienced captain they probably exercise too much influence and one has the impression that Anderson is holding out and for his 5ooth Test wicket. They are choking up the selection. I would like to see in their absence an [...]

December 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

Cricketing matters

It’s a bit strange to be writing on cricket with the sun setting at 4.00 pm but the recent series in New Zealand and the passing of Bob Willis are worthy of Rust review. It was a dull series in New Zealand largely due to placid pitches. Crucial questions were left unresolved notably Joe Root’s [...]

December 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

2 1/2 sporting documentaries

Whilst grateful to Neil Rosen for his in-flight recommendation of Lost in Translation I was drawn to that section of movies on the plane titled “sports documentaries” and watched two and a half of those. The first was The Edge – the story behind the Revival of England cricket in 2007 [...]

November 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

The 1964 Tokyo Olympiad

With the Olympics in Tokyo next year, there was much discussion in the party on the 1964 Olympiad there. We Brits produced 4 gold winners (Lynn “The Leap” Davies, Ken Matthews the marathon walker, Ann Packer in the 800m and Mary Rand in athletics and long jump. I argued the case that Mary Rand [...]

November 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

Reviewing England this summer

Winning the World Cup and Ben Stokes’s innings has rather papered over the cracks of some seismic faults in English Test cricket notably: Joe Root The policy has been to choose your best player as captain but in the case of Ian Botham and Freddie Flintoff this did not succeed. This is because the [...]

September 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Brighton HAFC, Sussex CC and Sussex Sharks

The jury is sill out on Graham Potter. His reign as Brighton Head Coach began with a victory away at Watford devalued by the latter only achieving their first point at Newcastle this weekend, a draw with West ham and losses to Southampton and Manchester City. Potter plays a more expansive style [...]

September 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

Adding to our ongoing series

Spotted on the website of The Independent: From Jonathan Liew, Cricket – THE THIRTY GREATEST CRICKET TEST INNINGS From Graeme Ross, Movies – THE TWENTY GREATEST BRITISH FILMS [...]

August 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

My weekend

Observant readers will note the omission of “Sporting” in the title. This was because “family” might be the better word. We had invited my brother and his family for the day to our coastal home. They number ten and with other guests this was 13 in all. I had agreed to this day as [...]

August 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

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