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England v Pakistan ODI

Yesterday I went to Lords for the second match in the ODI series. The ECB have missed a trick by scheduling only four tests which ended in parity and ODIs instead of a deciding test. The tourists have shown little enthusiasm and even less application in the first match at the Ageas Bowl. Yesterday [...]

August 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex close to victory

Sussex CCC have only won one match all season drawing the other eight. League leaders Essex have lost two but won three. Still with six games left after this match against Gloucestershire and with Sussex having a game in hand a late winning run would mean promotion. Sussex had Gloucestershire [...]

August 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Championship, Brighton, Sussex CCC and Gay Pride

I had two long conversations with Alan Tanner prior to the Fulham v Newcastle game and after our goalless draw with Derby and shared our views with Pargie  anxious for tips. My view is that the chances of promotion are greatly enhanced by having someone at the helm with form in the  Championship. [...]

August 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

The third test

I was invited yesterday by the PCA (The Professional Cricketers Association) to their box at Edgbaston. This proved so difficult to find not least as the relevant stand, The Wyatt, was not referred to on the ticket. In the end Alison Prosser who does indefatigable administrative work for the PCA [...]

August 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Glamorgan

Yesterday I took Martine, a French friend of Bob Tickler, to her first cricket game. In the taxi to the ground from Brighton to Hove I managed to explain the T20 format, the tensions between the counties and the envisaged new metro T20 competition and the power shift from Lords to the sub-continent [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Eighty not out

Some might call it lazy journalism, but they don’t understand what websites such as the Rust are about. Our primary purpose is to reflect the interests, observations, attitudes and complications of life as it is lived in the 21st Century by those who have reached broadly the age of fifty or [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cheltenham Festival

Yesterday I travelled from the coast to Cheltenham to see Sussex play a Royal London 50 over match v Gloucestershire in the Cheltenham Festival week. I had two other motives: I had never seen cricket at Cheltenham and most of all I wanted to see again two brother Martin and Richard I met in [...]

July 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

I have tried, I really have

Readers will note from my biography below that I am no fan of the T20 game. Yet it is here to stay and yesterday I resolved to make my peace with it. It was a lovely warm evening, 27,000 packed Lords, the highest attendance for a T20 match, to see Middlesex play Surrey. My problem with this format [...]

July 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

MCC and the home of cricket

Although the match is tense and poised it did not seem to absorb the spectators round me who were by the afternoon chatting, sleeping, drinking or doing a crossword.  Drink is drunk in industrial quantities at cricket right from the start so on a hot humid day the consequence is fatigue. If I were [...]

July 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

First day of test

The first day of Lords is a special occasion, so much so that it tends – as it did yesterday – to overshadow the cricket. The old ground looked fabulous with only the Warner incomplete with no roof. It’s such a pleasing and successful fusion of old, the red brick Victorian [...]

July 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

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