Cricket

For the second time in 4 days Sussex Sharks lost a T20 game by 18 runs, this time to Hampshire. We were confident with the opening England T20 speedsters, Chris Jordan and Tymal Mills, Kiwi Ross Taylor leading the side, and Luke Wright – a prolific T20 cricketer – we would be a force in [...]

When it’s cricket at Lords I am definitely in the attendance camp. As I travelled to Lords I wondered about the benefit of a debenture which guarantees your seat but which I do not use fully. This doubt was dispelled by the warmth of the greeting in our area where all the staff try so hard to [...]

Yesterday I returned to Arundel with a friend. Nancy rightly praised the proximity of beautiful countryside to the coast in Sussex and Arundel with its castle dominating is as fine example as any. Some 1,500 were there to see Sussex play lowly Leicestershire in a game we have to win to rein in [...]

Yesterday I went to the first day of the Championship match between Sussex and Gloucestershire – all of the 4 day cricket games began at 2pm and played with a pink ball. No one knew quite what to expect especially in the final hour or so when play was under the floodlights. When I had my [...]

There can be few better places to be on perfect summer’s day than Arundel Castle to watch cricket. Somerset Maugham said that as we have so few of them it’s only right that an English summer’s day should be better than anyone else’s or some such words. I had invited a local [...]

Yesterday I went to the Oval in the one and only ICC Trophy natch I will be watching as spectator. I am very much in the tv camp when it comes to big cricket matches and this match experience did not alter my view. Firstly, there is travel. It should be a simple journey from the coast to Clapham [...]