My Favourite Cricket Moments 2018 ( May – June)
Time to look back on what was an amazing summer of cricket, I may have to do this in 2 parts, I saw even more live play than I ever have and witnessed some wonderful performances. I’m going to go through the months to pick out some of the best. May 2018 Sam Cook (Essex) Harry Brook (Yorkshire) – […]
Saracens Women v Gloucester Hartpury Women
I hadn’t been able to watch Saracens Women play so far this season, the fixtures tend to be scheduled to clash with the Premiership etc matches. I am going to start with a moan, that seems crazy to me, if the game wants to grow crowds they either need to have double headers or put then women’s games on at […]
Saracens v Bath – Rugby’s Back!
And so that’s the cricket season finished! Wow I’ve had an amazing summer, I’ve seen some amazing individual performances , there’ll be plenty of TV cricket over the winter, but I prefer my sport live, Rugby is my sport of choice over the winter months, Saracens are my team of choice, with the odd alternative team thrown in. Oh and […]
Surrey v Essex
I’m going to try to do this one differently, get the writing done before I tackle the photos (I took over 4000, they’re going to take some time!). I joined as a Surrey and England member before the last home Ashes, over those years I’ve managed to get to a few home games and therefore acquired one of those soft […]
England v India – The Oval – Day 5
Day 5 of the Final Test, an unusual event as a rule! This was to be virtually a whole day too. Those who’d bought tickets at the last minute for Day 4 had been served up a real treat and Day 5 was non too shoddy either! Jimmy Anderson was hunting a record, but Joe Root failed to bowl him […]
England v India – The Oval – Day 4
Day 4 was the day of the horror journey to The Oval for me (it was about a lot more than that, but let’s get the journey out of the way) It wasn’t possible to drive to a tube station on a Monday morning so my brother was kind enough to give me a lift to Redhill station. I boarded […]
England v India – Ageas Bowl – Day 4
Right, let’s see how this internet works this evening, hopefully it won’t make me want to throw my laptop out the window! Tomorrow I go home so should be back to normal wi-fi wise, but until then, here I go! I’m not even going to try to add photos here, I’ll do that at home. Day 4 of this test […]
England v India – Ageas Bowl – Day 3
PHOTOS TO FOLLOW Day 3 of the 4th test saw another utterly glorious day at The Ageas Bowl, today is the first of September, Autumn supposedly, not in Southampton, the sun shone in a largely blue sky all day. India had finished their innings with a lead of 27 runs, how important would that be in this low scoring game? What I’m going to type next may need some time to digest, England batted…….. ALL DAY! That was what was needed for the home team to salvage this game. The 2 openers Alastair Cook and Keaton Jennings were under some pressure with averages of 16 and 15 respectively. Cook had scored runs against Pakistan but this was proving to be […]
England v India – Ageas Bowl – Day 2 (In brief)
I have a self imposed deadline of writing up each day of a test match on the day it happens, but, for this evening I had an invite to have dinner and spend the evening with my friends Andrew and Sandy who live very near to the ground. It’s now gone midnight and I’m back in my hotel after a […]
England v India – Trent Bridge – Day 2
Before I start writing about Day 2 of this third Test between England and India I should confirm that I am an England fan, but, luckily for me I’m a fan of the game of cricket first. I had an OK sleep after Day 1, the Airbnb I’m staying in is close to a hospital with an Accident & Emergency […]
England v India – Trent Bridge – Day 1
After an unsuccessful test for me at Lord’s I was looking forward to the third test at Trent Bridge. I was lucky enough to have received a ticket for the TMS v Tailenders match at Derbyshire’s 3aaa’s Ground. My daughter had been visiting from Paris and had a train to catch in London, I decided to drive her into Stratford […]
England v India – The 2nd Test – Lord’s
With tickets at £110 a day for the first 3 days I took the decision to only go for the first 2 days at Lord’s, I later added Day 4 for £80, but decided to sell that ticket to a friend as my daughter is here, visiting from Paris. My decision meant I saw just over 8 overs of cricket […]
England v India – Edgbaston – The Finale!
And so we came to the finale of this intriguing test match, I had another horror night in my hotel, I have no idea why people coming from a different time zone can’t understand that people want to be asleep at 3am in the morning! But, slamming doors and shouting for 2 hours at that time at least meant I […]
England v India – Edgbaston Day 3
My journey to the ground for Day 3 was seamless, I felt like trying to tell those paying to park that they really didn’t need to! I had empty seats around me, they must’ve heard about me! But had a few good exchanges of views throughout the day. England had the opportunity to get runs on the board and set […]
England v India – Edgbaston Day 2
My morning had a much better start than Day 1, I drove to the road I was parking in rather than driving miles away from the ground! It was a much better plan. My seat was in the Scriveners Opticians Stand, I knew this would be a good seat because I’d picked it when I visited the ground to watch […]
England v India – Edgbaston Day 1
England’s 1000th Test and their first against India this summer started today at Edgbaston. Most of the talk before the match, on the England front, revolved around the inclusion of Adil Rashid, a man who opted out of playing red ball cricket for his county, Yorkshire, in 2018. He goes into this series with a good deal of pressure on […]
