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Stoking the fire

It occurred to me as I rose this morning that, for good or ill, Ben Stokes’ extraordinary match-winning performance at Headingley yesterday in the third Ashes Test raises a number of talking or debating points. First up, a positive (and to be honest unexpected) personal reaction to the demeanour [...]

August 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

From behind the sofa

Sport – at elite level or below – is a funny old game, isn’t it? At its best it is probably one of the human race’s most life-enhancing and positive experiences – either to participate in or watch – and yet, after all the complexities of emotion and hype potentially involved in the [...]

August 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach

On the Rust we are honest enough to make light of our mission and indeed pay tribute where tribute is due. In recent weeks, cricket has regularly been in the headlines – in the case of the male version of the game, in the context of the epic World Cup victory and now the happily tense and [...]

August 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sharks falter

Sussex Sharks should all have guaranteed a home quarter final but after losing to Essex Eagles by 9 runs it was not to be. The biggest cheer of the night was the announcement that Jofra Archer took 6-45 in the Test at Headingley. Brighton is a tolerant place and the Sussex CCC has a long and [...]

August 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sussex beat Middlesex in Championship

I watched a lively third day of the Championship match with Middlesex which Sussex won by 7 wickets with a day to spare. Speedster Ollie Robinson will remember the match for some time: he won his cap and took 14 wickets for 135 runs. If there was not such a plethora of English international pacemen [...]

August 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

Unusually for me I did not have a tickle all weekend though I had some golf bets in the week. Sometimes I just want to watch sport free of angst. I started with the Bledisloe Cup as I’m watching a good deal of rugby in preparation for the forthcoming World Cup. I had little doubt that there would [...]

August 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

A memorable day at the Test

The Saturday of a Lords Test is always special, an Ashes one very special, but yesterday can only be described as very, very special. I cannot remember a more absorbing day of Test cricket. It had everything: incident, but better than that – so close was and is – the encounter that you [...]

August 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

The art of embracing the new

Sometimes in life you have to try and keep a sense of proportion. For some months now, from the side-lines, I’ve been following the Rust sports department’s campaigns seeking to condemn drugs cheats absolutely and point out the absurdities inherent in the PC-backed thrust to get elite female [...]

August 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

Second day of Test

In a day of slowish scoring of less than 300 hundred runs in total, a third of them scored by Rory Burns and Jonny Bairstow, the main feature of the day was its dedication to the Ruth Strauss Foundation. At the risk of sounding like Victor Meldew I was not sure about this. Charity is a matter of [...]

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

Rain, rain, go away

Today I’m going to Lords for the start of the Ashes Test. It’s highly likely I will not see a ball bowled. If it ends as a draw England will have to win two and draw one of the remaining three to recover the Ashes. Unlikely. More likely more rain and they cannot get Steve Smith out. Steve Smith [...]

August 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

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