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A la Colthard/Baia restaurant

Bob Tickler invited Conchita and her family and the Rusters to Conchita’s favourite restaurant Baia, a Portuguese fish restaurant in the Waterfront  Mall and overlooking Table Bay. It’s peak season and only through Conchita did we obtain a reservation. Things got off to bad start when [...]

January 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fourth day / first day, second test

In the great NR debate on attendance v home watching the quality of the stadium/venue plays a role and few are as beautiful as Newlands the scene of the second test. It’s aspected by a mountian range that gives as thrilling a back drop as a Western and by the sea. The stands are around the [...]

January 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Day 3: let battle commence

England start as firm favourites with Jimmy Anderson back in the bowling line up. South Africa have deep problems. The side that dominated world cricket are now in severe decline, inevitable with the retirement of Jacques Kallis and Graeme Smith and their 3 best players, Amla, AB De Villiers and [...]

January 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Day One/ National Rust Tour to South Africa

I felt honoured to make up the quartet of National Rusters going to Cape Town – with Daphne Colthard, Tom Hollingworth and Douglas Heath – to cover the second test and give our impressions sporting and otherwise of the rainbow nation. This is my fifth visit to South Africa, my first [...]

December 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be

For some Rust contributors and readers of my acquaintance, the 21st Century endless merry-go-round of the various forms of international, regional and city-based cricket has become a surfeit that leaves them hankering for the old days when men were men and prep school boys played soccer, hockey or [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Players Club Lunch

Our  Players Club of Sussex CCC is most social and yesterday we gathered at English’s, who sponsor the junior Sharks, fora pre-Xmas celebration. It was also attended  by two players, Chris Nash and Jimmy Anyon who did a ‘q and ‘a’. I had a long telephone chat with a [...]

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Cricketing lunch

Yesterday I attended with friends the closing lunch of the Luke Wright benefit year. Luke is captain now of Sussex but it’s not been the greatest year for his team with relegation, finishing bottom of the Royal London southern section and falling at the quarter finals of the T20. However, [...]

November 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

A fascinating cricket talk

Yesterday I went to Arundel Cricket  Club to hear Stephen  Chalke author of “Summer ‘ s Crown ” talk on county cricket.  I have already reviewed this superb celebration  of the County Championship.  In the flesh the writer is in his mid sixties, academic looking and bristling [...]

November 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

A sport going the way of all flesh

It is a fact of life that everything keeps evolving. In sport the elite sporting participants constantly get fitter and their core skills better, time-honoured strategic and tactical shibboleths get shredded and replaced with new ones, the global balance of power shifts. Sometimes these changes [...]

October 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

2005 Ashes revisited

Sussex CCC is a social place so the dinners continue to flow even though the season is finished. Last night Tony Cottey, one of the few to have won championships for 2 counties, Glamorgan and  Sussex,presented one of his “When cricket meets…” as he invites sportsmen to a dinner [...]

October 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

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