From The Ashes. Sadly….
Bazball and Ben and Brendan energised English Test cricket. They ensured that the longer format of the game flourished at a time when T20 franchises were on the cusp of dominating…
Barney and Tallulah and their mates love Test cricket…
But the wheels have come off, and thousands of radios will have tuned in this morning to doom and gloom and extinguished hope. The end of the Bazball era…
A great shame for those jumping onto aeroplanes. Tickets booked with MCG and SCG dreaming. Dead rubbers were not in the script. Anticlimactic long distance journeys…
My own mad SCG and Australian New Year dreams in tatters. Just a silly dream that if England were on the cusp of lifting the Urn….
No need for any more silly dreaming. Enough cricket. For a while…
Three runners tomorrow evening in Bahrain. Most likely the final runners of 2026. Another year consigned to those dusty history books. Water under several bridges. Journeys under several motorway bridges. Long days and long nights. Highlights aplenty – inevitable disappointments and tough calls and the fickle Lady Luck….
A full 2025 debrief to follow. Some great fun days along the way. Have I told you about The Wokingham at Royal Ascot….??
Fun looking back on the days when those cards dropped perfect and right…
But much more exciting and fun to look forward. A strong team being assembled, both equine and human, for 2026. On we go…
Kempton confusion continues. Where there is no definitive news, the suspicion grows that that “news” will be of the less good variety….
