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Natural talent versus coached

Prior to the beginning of the First Test, on TMS that know-all Michael Vaughan was holding forth on his view that the primacy of Australia, England and India enabled them to coach their best talent and thereby it was not a level cricket field. I agree with the first contention – but not the [...]

August 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sporting Saturday

With the Premiership back on a typically sunny hot day, there was always going to be loads of football to savour. However,  my sports watch began at 8/05 with a rugby match between the All Blacks and the Pumas from Argentina.  There is no more dangerous side in any sport than the avenging All [...]

August 18, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Manchester United 1 Fulham 0

That Fulham are neither mentioned as a top eight club, nor as a relegation candidate in the hype prior to the start of the Premiership, indicates that another midtable position is expected. Joao Pahlinha will be a great loss now that he has moved to Bayern but Emile Smith Rowe is an exciting [...]

August 17, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sharks & Seagulls

Sussex Sharks have lost 7/7 games in the Mertro One Day Cup a format they were the first to dominate. Personally – and I am sure I speak for many supporters – I’m not that disappointed. Some of the defeats were well-fought contests but, most importantly, we keep our powder dry for the [...]

August 16, 2024 // 0 Comments

Worrell/Simon Lister

This biography serves as an illuminating follow up to Who Only Cricket Knows.   Frank Worrell was the first black cricketer to captain the West Indies for a full series. A member of the three Ws triumvirate Caribbean; Clyde Walcott, who like Worrell went to Combermere school, and Everton Weekes [...]

August 10, 2024 // 0 Comments

Great British failures

The failure to win gold by Team GB’s Matthew Hudson Smith was the 3rd such one after Adam Peaty and Josh Kerr. You would not have guessed it from the soft post-event interview – and now Peaty is blaming the food. He is pathetic. Footballers are overpaid but they have to put up with much [...]

August 8, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Olympics assessed

We are now more than a week beyond the opening ceremony ruined by rain which set the tone for an Olympiad not living up to expectation. Scarcely a day goes by without some scandalous happening – the latest being the barring of running Goddess Sha’carri Richardson to the stadium for the [...]

August 4, 2024 // 0 Comments

Who Only Cricket Knows/David Woodhouse

This is a book prize-winning account of the 1953-1954 tour to the Caribbean led by Len Hutton and managed by Charles Palmer. The title is an adaptation from Rudyard Kipling by the Marxist writer C.R James which reflected one of the tensions of the tour – nascent Caribbean nationalism – [...]

July 31, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sharks narrowly beaten by Warwickshire in One Day Competition

Yesterday I was invited into the Sussex boardroom for a one day game against Warwickshire. Top of the second division of the Championship and in the quarter finals of the T20, our resources are stretched by another competition and it showed. After a platform of 54-0, our batting collapsed. This [...]

July 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

Saturday sports watch

I decided that today my post would centre more on sports coverage than the sports themselves. TMS with ball-by-ball commentary on the third day at Edgbaston was on my radio all day. It threw up such statistical gems as that a Warwickshire player had never scored a century at their own ground [...]

July 28, 2024 // 0 Comments

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