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Sharks are toothless

Sussex form continues to worry. There is a lack of spine and spirit. Skipper Ed Joyce has complained  that the county side has lost all four pacemen but this does not explain  the batting failures not least of Joyce himself. Last night the Sharks lost to Essex Eagles. They could only set a target [...]

June 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Celebrating Barry McGuigan and Irish featherweights

Yesterday I had to pick up a prescription from a pharmacy in Hove. The chief pharmacist is a friendly Irishman called Paddy. He is a short fellow and I was surprised to learn was once the All Ireland featherweight  champion.  Conversation turned to Barry McGuigan ( “The Clones [...]

June 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Broadcasting – excellent and very, very average

Last night, after a fairly busy day culminating in making myself an evening meal, I decided on a whim to retire to bed just after 8.30pm for no other reason that I was weary and felt like it. It proved to be a happy move because, quite by chance, I had only just missed the beginning of what turned [...]

June 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Shark attack

It was chucking it down all afternoon, by six a sun so fierce emerged that spectator and player had difficulty seeing the ball and once the sun dipped below the Spen Cama pavilion we felt the cold.  Middlesex posted a total of 221 runs, their highest ever score, with Dawid Malan contributing 115. [...]

May 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sussex triumph in thriller

I know that some prefer the shorter form of cricket to the county game of 4 days but Sussex’s victory over Warwickshire proves that the latter can set up a sporting treat. One of the features of Sussex games at Hove this season is the poor quality of the pitch, so much so that we may well be [...]

May 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

KP free

Rather like The Independent not carrying stories on the Royals I was prepared to veto Kevin Pietersen as I was so bored by it all. Yet underpinning it is an issue which should be aired, namely a media campaign to pick a player. This has existed in football for years. As recently as the last World [...]

May 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Yorkshire fails?

Yorkshire has never been more powerful or prominent in cricket than today. ECB  Chairman Yorkshireman Colin Graves will this week be officially in situ though when he was not he still labelled the West Indies “mediocre” ; half the English side could bear the white rose  (Lyth, Root, [...]

May 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sussex stutter

So far this season Sussex three games against Hampshire, Worcestershire and Durham could have gone either way. It was much the same against Middlesex at Hove yesterday. Sussex dominated the day dismissing Middlesex for 269. However we lost 3 wickets for 66 runs in the final hour and the game is [...]

May 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Test Match Special

One institution that has consistently maintained its reputation for commentary is Test Match Special. I am old enough to remember Norman Yardley, one of th last amateurs  to captain England, but grew up with John Arlott and Brian Johnston, though the two did not get on. Johnners and Aggers [...]

May 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sussex win again

It was a good day yesterday for Sussex sport. Millwall’s defeat at Blackburn meant the Seagulls are all but safe. Sussex won their second game in succession when we beat Worcestershire by 61 runs. Worcestershire needed 200 runs to win but wickets soon began to tumble. Ajmal Shahzad, recruited [...]

April 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

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