365 Sporting Days
Sharing a passion for Sport!
I’m going to try to keep this to the rugby! Well do my best anyway, although I’m not loving the pre-amble on BT Sport, I was at the game but I’m watching back if I can bear to. My own day started with lunch with two of my Harlequins friends, Sue and Henry, some good chat and a Costa, what’s […]
I started writing about rugby for the site In The Loose, before setting up my own thing. I’ve always considered myself to be fair, impartial and unbiased, in fact I try my hardest to think about the game first then my team. Being a Saracens fan has tested that resolve since the news of their Salary Cap transgressions broke in […]
In November Saracens were given a £5.4 ish fine and a 35 point deduction, having been found to have breached the salary cap for 3 seasons. As a Saracens fan that’s felt pretty awful, but more was yet to come! There’s been a sense of glee around any negative news around Saracens from some quarters, I was loathe to believe […]
With 2020 here, this is a good time to look back on a great summer for Essex, one that ended with them lifting the County Champions Trophy! This is my 2019 Wickets, Shots and Joy post! The season started with a loss at Hampshire for Essex, with Hampshire scoring a huge 525 for 8, I wasn’t there to see one […]
Round 4 of the Champions Cup saw Munster arriving at Allianz Park; my first experience of Munster was at the impressive Thomond Park in Limerick in December 2012, followed up by their visit to the gloomy Vicarage Road. This was another double header and with the first match finishing Munster 15 Saracens 9 and the second Saracens 19 Munster 13 […]
I started out the World Cup with tickets to 15 matches, that meant I’d be watching and taking photos of every team at least once. Weather in Bristol meant I didn’t get to see Sri Lanka, both their matches there, against Pakistan and Bangladesh were rained off. However I did get to see the Top 10 Batsmen runs wise in […]
Where were we? Well, I’m going to take a step back to build more of a picture of how it was in the Upper Compton Stand on Sunday. I was sat next to Jonny, a Doctor, from Birmingham, now living in Wimbledon; he was with 3 or 4 friends and their tickets had been sorted for them by a friend […]
It’s been a torrid few weeks to be an England and Saracens fan, a time that started with such hope saw a crowd of us rock up at Allianz Park at 8am on a Saturday morning to watch England win the World Cup. That don’t quite go to plan as South Africa pretty much did to us what we did to the All Blacks, perhaps Warren Gatland was right and England had put in their all in that astonishing semi-final. Losing Kyle Sinckler after 2 minutes didn’t help. But the match literally personified the rugby saying – The forwards decide who’s going to win the match, the backs by how much – England were out muscled from minute one. Although […]
This was one I couldn’t write while I was watching, the long awaited match between Pakistan and India. I drove up from Taunton through torrential rain, heading to Manchester a place renowned for rain at the best of times! Saturday evening was spent with some of my Stani Army friends at a restaurant in Wilmslow, Lal Qila followed by ice […]
Match 28 – Karachi Kings v Islamabad United Islamabad 136 for 6 Rizwan Hussain – 17 from 14 balls Philip Salt(wk) – 25 from 19 Hussain Talat – 37 from 30 Shadab Khan(c) – 12 from 14 Colin Ingram – 14 from 15 Asif Ali – 2 from 5 Faheem Ashraf – 12 from 14 Zafar Gohar – 13 from […]
Match 25 – Quetta Gladiators v Multan Sultans The weather ‘won’ this one, the match was abandoned without a ball being bowled. Match 26 – Karachi Kings v Lahore Qalanders Lahore – 150 for 5 Sohail Akhtar(c) – 68 from 49 Fakhar Zaman – 17 from 13 Chris Lynn – 5 from 5 Ben Dunk(wk) – 9 from 14 Mohammad […]
Headlines have been in abundance as per usual when it comes to Saracens, the Daily Mail, that well known rugby paper, told us there was to be an exodus of players. The only absolute news from the club at that point had been to confirm that Liam Williams is heading back to Wales after his 3 years at the club. […]
Game 24 – Lahore Qalanders v Peshawar Zalmi Peshawar – 187 for 7 Kamran Akmal(wk) – 12 from 8 balls Tom Banton – A Golden Duck Liam Livingstone – 4 from 5 Shoaib Malik – 62 from 43 Haider Ali – 69 from 43 Lewis Gregory – 8 from 4 Carlos Brathwaite – 16 from 11 Wahab Riaz(c) – 1 […]
Match 19 – Karachi Kings v Multan Sultans Disappointingly this match was abandoned due to rain, Karachi has Multan on 102 for 6 after 16.5 overs. The crowd had been thrilled by Afridi scoring 35 of those runs from 17 balls. But, the rain won the day. Match 20 – Peshawar Zalmi v Islamabad United Islamabad – 195 for 5 […]
Game 17 – Islamabad United v Lahore Qalanders Islamabad – 198 for 3 Luke Ronchi(wk) – 48 from 31 balls Colin Munro – 87 from 59 Shadab Khan(c) – 7 from 5 Colin Ingram – 29 from 19 Asif Ali – 20 from 6 Rizwan Hussain – DNB Hussain Talat – DNB Dale Steyn – DNB Rumman Raees – DNB […]
Game 16 – Quetta Gladiators v Lahore Qalanders Lahore 209 for 5 Fakhar Zaman – `15 from 14 balls Chris Lynn – 27 from 22 Ben Dunk – 93 from 43 Mohammad Hafeez – A Golden Duck Samit Patel – 71 from 40 Sohail Akhtar – NO 0 Muhammad Faizan – DNB Seekkuge Prasanna – DNB Salman Irshad – DNB […]
Game 15 – Karachi Kings v Peshawar Zalmi Peshawar – 151 for 8 Tom Banton – Out for a Golden Duck Kamran Akmal – 4 from 8 balls Haider Ali – 4 from 2 Shoaib Malik – 68 from 55 Liam Livingstone – 25 from 20 Lewis Gregory – 25 from 22 Carlos Brathwaite – 8 from 5 Wahab Riaz […]
Game 14 – Islamabad United v Karachi Kings Islamabad – 183 for 3 Luke Ronchi – 85 from 58 balls Colin Monro – 1 from 5 Rizwan Hussain – 22 from 14 Colin Ingram – 16 from 12 Shadab Khan – 54 from 31 Asif Ali – DNB Faheem Ahsraf – DNB Ahmed Safi Abdullah – DNB Rumman Raees – […]
Game 12 – Multan Sultans v Quetta Gladiators Multan – 199 for 5 Zeeshan Ashraf – 8 from 11 balls James Vince – 29 from 24 Shan Masood – 46 from 32 Moeen Ali – 6 from 7 Rilee Rossouw – 100 from 44 Khushdil Shah – 1 from 2 Sohail Tanvir – NO 1 from 1 Imran Tahir – […]
Game 9 – Islamabad United v Quetta Gladiators Islamabad – 187 for 7 Luke Ronchi – 11 from 4 balls Colin Monro – 31 from 20 Dawid Malan – 10 from 9 Shadab Khan – 39 from 25 Colin Ingram – 63 from 40 Asid Ali – 15 from 10 Faheem Ashraf – 4 from 4 Amad Butt – 6 […]
Peshawar Zalmi – Multan Sultans Peshawar 123 All Out in 18.3 overs Tom Banton – 4 from 5 balls Kamran Akmal – 15 from 9 Haider Ali – 47 from 27 Shoaib Malik – 2 from 4 Liam LIvingstone – Out for a Duck 2 balls Liam Dawson – 22 from 23 Wahab Riaz – 9 from 7 Darren Sammy […]
Game 6 – Karachi Kings v Quetta Gladiators Karachi – 156 for 9 Babar Azam – 26 from 23 balls Sharjeel Khan – 6 from 12 Alex Hales – 29 from 27 Cameron Delport – 22 from 12 Chadwick Walton – 1 from 4 Iftikhar Ahmed – 25 from 18 Imad Wasim (c) – 8 from 10 Chris Jordan – […]
Match 4 – Quetta Gladiators v Peshawar Zalmi Quetta 148 for 5 Jason Roy – 73 from 57 balls Shane Watson – 8 from 10 Ahmed Shehzad – 12 from 12 Sarfaraz Ahmed (c) – 41 from 25 Azam Khan – 5 from 9 Mohammad Nawaz – 2 from 4 Sohail Khan – 2 from 3 Ahsan Ali – DNB […]
Match 1 – Quetta Gladiators v Islamabad United Islamabad – 168 All Out Colin Munro – Out for a Golden Duck! Luke Ronchi – Scored 23 from 13 balls Dawid Malan – Scored 64 from 40 Hussain Talat – Scored 19 from 22 Colin Ingram – Scored 6 from 6 Asif Ali – Scored 19 from 13 Shadab Khan (c) […]
It’s been a few days since Saracens played Worcester, I’ve been feeling rather disheartened since then, with the ongoing feeding frenzy from some media outlets after an interview by returning Chief Executive Edward Griffiths was twisted to suit whatever their agendas may be. One ‘journalist’ Laura Lambert, now seems to be going by her maiden name of Laura Scott, and […]
