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Assessing the Ashes

When the sports editor asked me for a piece to preview the Ashes my heart dropped. There has been so much hot air in the media, so much raking up of old incidents and generating new confrontation that I suspect most cricket followers like me would really like battle to commence, as it will this [...]

July 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Killer Sharks

Sussex Sharks won their fourth game on the bounce at Lords last night against Middlesex taking us to the  top of the Southern Section. Every victory was away from Hove but today we return to our home ground to play the Kent Spitfires. Victory should ensure passage to the semis. The hero last night [...]

July 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Mike Brearley and the Art of Captaincy

A few years ago I was invited to Lords by the treasurer of Middlesex for a game by the touring West Indies. Mike Brearley was there too, in sandals, and after lunch I stood next to him on the balcony.  If your definition of a good analyst is adding value then Mike Brearley was in a class of his [...]

July 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

A dinner with Sir Garry Sobers

As part of the Luke Wright benefit year a golf day and dinner was organised at East Sussex National last night. Luke Wright was not there, he was hitting the winning run off the last ball against Gloucestershire in the T 20 blast but the greatest cricketer of all time was. With his crinkly silvery [...]

June 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

What’s not to like?

We sports lovers live in a golden age. There is a surfeit of sport going on in the world and modern technology renders it available to viewers and listeners in a manner of which previous generations can only have dreamed. When it comes to presentation, things have changed much in the last seventy [...]

June 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

How it all began

As we cricket lovers bask in the glories of the New Zealand Black Cap’s all-too-brief (or should I say ‘ridiculously truncated’?) Test and ODI tour and slowly turn our minds to the Ashes clash, here’s a to-be-recommended article by John Lazenby that appears today upon the [...]

June 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ivan again

It’s becoming the Ivan Conway show as yet again I’m posting. Hopefully the readers will bear with me. This time its more about Matt Prior and cycling. I saw Matt at the Players Club at Arundel  and later at at Luke Wright’s Dinner at the Old Forge Storrington. Matt was with [...]

June 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life as it should be lived

First, my apologies to any disgruntled readers who in the past week may have felt that the Rust had been taken over by myself or indeed cricket. In a rare break from my traditional loyalties to Sussex CCC, yesterday I accepted a long-standing invitation from a doyen (and former President) of Surrey [...]

June 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Arundel: part two

It was kind of the sports editor to let me post on two consecutive days but it’s not that often that a game involving Surrey makes the headlines without any reference to Kevin Pietersen. Thankfully Rory Burns and Moises Henriques are going to be alright although the latter has had to have his [...]

June 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Events, dear boy,events

Harold Macmillan famously observed that he could cope with political decisions but that it was the events that were much harder. En route to and at Arundel there were two events which required immediate judgment and both came out of the blue. The first happened on the train at Hove station. A young [...]

June 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

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