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A Passage to India

Sitting in the departure lounge at Heathrow waiting for my Air India flight, I had two thoughts: (1) Does the England team care that thousands of fans are spending their hard-earned cash to follow England where now the most hopeful and unlikely result is a drawn series? (2) Does the England side [...]

December 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s simple really

As the analysts pore over the entrails of England’s defeat in the second test in India they offer all manner of explanation except the most convincing one. If only Alastair Cook had not lost his wicket in the final over, if only we avoided the customary collapse – yet we lost the match [...]

November 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

A chance meeting

Going about my business yesterday, I heard on good authority a great anecdote. Last week a former player at a leading elite sports club attended an official annual dinner for his peers. He told of how one day long ago he had jumped onto a London bus that was practically empty and after a while fell [...]

November 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cricketing lunch

Ivan Conway and I had a bet, not the Pargiter kind, that if either of our two teams – Middlesex or Sussex – won a trophy the unsuccessful supporter must host lunch. Ivan kindly invited me to the GB 1 fish restaurant at the Grand in Brighton yesterday Conversation soon turned from our [...]

October 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

A memorable day for county cricket

Sadly I could not be present to see Middlesex win their first Championship tittle for 23 years but I followed it avidly on the radio. There will be some criticism of a contrived declaration particularly from the west country. Two points here. The contrived declaration where the two captains cut a [...]

September 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Royal London Final

The Royal London Final which I attended yesterday was spoiled by two things: a result that was predictable too early in the game to make it a a contest and an icy chill. Surrey got off to a good start and were 45 without loss when Laurie Evans took a superb one-handed catch to dismiss Jason Roy. [...]

September 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Money and sport

What has struck me recently about some of the developments in the world of sport is the fact that, as a branch of the entertainment business, its governors and administrators are constantly wrestling with the fundamental issues of attracting the paying public, television (or online) viewers and – [...]

September 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Brighton sporting day

If you ask someone to say what is Brighton famous for the answer you would probably get would be the Pier, Seafront, Lanes, Royal Pavilion and the gay capital of Europe. Sport would probably not feature yet with the Amex football stadium, Hove Cricket Ground, Brighton Racecourse and the greyhound [...]

September 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Lunch at Sussex

Yesterday I returned for the second day of Sussex v Kent and lunch at which Martin Corry spoke for the Wooden Spoon charity. Any notion of a dodgy wicket was dispelled by Kent amassing 496 in which virtually all the lower order contributed. Sussex closed at 42-2 trailing Kent by 274 runs. The game [...]

September 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Kent

Yesterday I went to Sussex v Kent at Hove with an old friend of mine, a barrister who is deeply knowledgeable on cricket. It is a game that Sussex must win if we are to catch Essex for the only promotion berth but the slim chances were made even more unlikely by the absence of Luke Wright, Ed Joyce [...]

September 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

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