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Lords: a pictorial celebration

Sports photography is a neglected art so Andrew Strauss is to be congratulated in selecting 200 photographs to celebrate Lords in this pictorial celebration. It traces the history of Lords from its founder Thomas Lord to the era of the bearded doctor WG Grace and the present day. Lords is unusual [...]

December 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

A player and man to admire

Yesterday I travelled to Brighton to attend an evening meeting of the Sussex Cricket Society as the guest of a pal of mine who had recently joined it. The guest of honour and main speaker was Alastair Hignell, the former England rugby international and Gloucestershire cricketer. Aged 59, he had [...]

November 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Did I really hear that?

They say that simple thing amuse simple minds – well, please excuse this smidgeon of self-indulgence … This morning I was up, as usual, around 1.00am and came to my laptop with a pint mug of black expresso coffee. My first act after signing is always to conjure up the Radio 5 website, click on [...]

August 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Middlesex

Yesterday I was invited, by the historian of Sussex and board member Jon Firby, to watch the Royal London 50-over game between Sussex and Middlesex. With fixture congestion and the advent of twenty-twenty, the one day game may be squeezed.  This would be a shame, as you have the tension of a [...]

August 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

An Evening with Mike Yardy and Luke Wright

Last night I was invited to an intimate cricket dinner at the Sussex cricket museum at Hove in aid of the Mike Yardy benefit. Sussex CCC has certainly improved in terms of amenities and performance these past few years, mainly due to a generous legacy of £16m. Sussex is a proud sporting county [...]

July 31, 2014 // 0 Comments

An experience in the round

Yesterday to Guildford, in order to watch the second of a four-day county cricket match between Surrey and Kent in a party hosted by an eminent Surrey CCC grandee. Driving home afterwards, I tried to think of the last time I had taken time out to watch a county game. I think it may have been a [...]

July 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Couch potato

There has been a debate on these pages on the relative advantages of attending an event or watching it on tv. Yesterday I wanted to follow three sporting events: the second Test against India, a crucial mountain stage of the Tour de France and the second day of the Open at Hoylake. I [...]

July 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Meeting an old friend

Yesterday I met up with an old school friend whom I last saw some four years ago. He is a distinguished biographer of James Boswell and Hugh Trevor Roper, now working on a biography of John Le Carre. This must be a fascinating work as the author, like Daphne du Maurier, is a semi-recluse and has [...]

July 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fings ain’t wot they used t’be

Today the England cricket team plays the latest in its One Day International series against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford. On 12th June at Leeds its equivalent will begin the First Test against the same country. Unless something extraordinary happens, I shall be watching little or nothing of either. [...]

May 31, 2014 // 0 Comments

Cricket and betting at Hove actually

Sitting at Hove, I found it hard to imagine that this most sedate of county grounds – with its sea air, deck chairs surrounded by the leafy streets of Hove with Jewish Sephardic names ( Goldsmid St, Avigdor St, Montefiore Place) – could produce the betting scandal that took place [...]

May 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

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