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Large margins

A cliche you often hear is “small margins”. It actually means in reality the rub of the green. No one would use the phrase to describe Sussex’s defeat by Northants of 393 runs (a record defeat) or England ‘s 119 run victory over New Zealand. With Middlesex lying bottom of the second [...]

July 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Meltdown in Hove

How do you manage to go from the potentially victorious position of having the opposition (Northamptonshire) over the barrel of 157-5 on the first day to following on 167 runs behind on the second yesterday? Ask Sussex as this is what happened. The ball can fly around in the morning at Hove but [...]

July 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

My only result this weekend was backing the Chilean prodigy Joaquin Niemann each way in the USPGA Rocket mortgage where the unknown Nate lashley ran away with his one. The South African Christian Bezuidenhout won the Andalusian Masters which most expected the Sponsor Sergio Garcia to do. Otherwise [...]

July 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

England fail (yet again)

Were I a prophet I suppose I would derive a smug satisfaction in questioning from the outset England’s credentiala to win the ICC World Cup but as it was I paid out a lot of money, had 2 unbearable rail journeys and lost my distance glasses – all to witness the sorry spectacle of craven [...]

June 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

A great day of sport

With my missus off to Alton Towers with grandkids Holly and Bracken I had the run of the gaff. Armed with a chilled rose, a Rosalie Mistral, recommended and supplied by Algy for services rendered and warm enough to fire the barbecue on the back yard I settled down to burgers, sausages and coleslaw [...]

June 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

England lose but the tournament wins

England’s defeat came as a surprise to many but not the Sports Rusters who were more doubtful of their chances. Had England won, then next week we would have matches between the top four (Australia, England, India, New Zealand) and meaningless games between the rest. Now the rest have some [...]

June 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

Australia v Sri Lanka

The petering out of Australia v Sri Lanka blows the theory that limited over cricket is necessarily more exciting than the Test/county variety. Sri Lanka, set a high total (334), made a good fist of it of it. At one stage they were 153-1 but once they started losing wickets ( 7 for 42 runs) it was [...]

June 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

ICC makes a rick

When you are planning a World Cup you would have thought that you would have engaged a leading local weather expert and above all a contingency plan for rain. It’s a rare British summer that is not affected by rain. So far 4 matches have been abandoned over rain, three without a ball bowled. [...]

June 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

A glorious day at Arundel

I prefer Arundel week to anything else in the sporting calendar. Nothing surpasses the sheer beauty of the cricket ground bordered by old trees with one gap in them to see the river Arun and downs. You can see the Duke of Norfolk’s castle and the cathedral. It’s short of stands with one [...]

June 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

ICC World Cup /one week on

It’s been a good first week in the World Cup. There was some criticism of it not being a genuine World Cup with eight competitors but I don’t get that. The best in the world play each other and would Ireland, Scotland, Zimbabwe and Holland be any more than cannon fodder? Bangladesh have [...]

June 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

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