NOT QUITE….
Ashes to ashes. Just yet… Australia probably just below par with 8 wickets down. 90 odd for 4 was a good moment in the middle of the night – but I reckon after losing the toss, [...]
SLATE GREY….
Old Trafford skies. Hanging damp. Drizzle on top of heavy rainfall. Sakhir Racecourse in Bahrain… Unseasonal. Unexpected. Unusual…. Pretty much the same here on Epsom Downs where the [...]
IF YOU GO….
To Sydney, you go to Bondi Beach…. A rite of passage. Iconic. Sydney’s beating heart… I vividly recall as if it were yesterday two very happy days there a long long time [...]
AS WE SIT….
On the cusp of another winter campaign, I have a bubbling mix of frayed emotions…. Trepidation, hope, ambition, excitement – aligned with a tinge of melancholy as I reflect on what [...]
A BAN…
On Social Media for Under 16’s in Australia… A further ban is being contemplated. A ban on cricket being played on those shores for the next month. Sign the petition, guys and [...]
WHEN OUT….
Pounding the roads shortly after 5 O’Clock yesterday morning…. Storm Bran was raging away. Trees bending double and heavy rain in the face…. “Shortly after 5 [...]
ENGLAND….
Inexorably…. Nudging their way to a remarkable 3-2 Ashes series victory. 2-0 down after being out batted and out bowled and out caught. And comprehensively out thought… We have those [...]
THE SHIPPING FORECAST….
Beginning to feel like a better option than Test Match Special when I wake up… Turning my radio on in West Sussex seems to coincide with either a collapse of English wickets or a frenzy of [...]
THANKFULLY….
I left the England team to it for the first few overs this morning…. Two wickets in the first five minutes would not have been good for the heart, the mind or the soul… A rally of [...]
JUST THIS….
An email from Cornelius Lysaght yesterday…. Nothing to add. Except to marvel at the strength and the resilience of John and Amy Hunt in the face of terrible trauma…. Hello George, I [...]
