Wickets, Shots and Joy – My Favourite Photos of 2018
Some of my favourite cricket photos from the summer of 2019
Dear ECB – An Open Letter
An Open Letter to the ECB Sirs Who exactly do the ECB and Counties consider as the ‘target market’? I ask the question because I’d consider myself as the perfect ‘target’ and yet I feel disenfranchised and irrelevant to cricket administrators. Cricket is a huge part of my life and has been for fifty years. I played for 25 years […]
Leicester Tigers v Saracens
A Twitter competition saw 3 friends and I enjoying this match in some style. Total Motion Leicester Tigers official vehicle suppliers sent out a tweet asking for the 2 seasons the 2 teams played each other in the Premiership Final. Both games were etched in my memory having been devastated at one and elated at the second. The prize was […]
My Favourite Cricket Moments 2018 (September)
Finishing off a wonderful Summer of cricket!
Saracens v Sale Sharks
One of the joys/downsides of having so many international players in the squad is the way the starting XV is stretched during both the autumn Internationals and 6 Nations. The Premiership Rugby Cup softens some of the blow, but there are two Premiership Rugby games during this AI spell. The first for Saracens being Sale Sharks, the second Leicester Tigers […]
Saracens v Worcester
Round 3 of the Premiership Rugby Cup saw Worcester visiting Allianz Park, they’d had a good win home and away against Sale and Tigers. Saracens had beaten Tigers in a well contested game and drawn on a Friday night at Sale. More PHLOG than BLOG I’m a big fan of this style of game, it’s great to see the future […]
England v All Blacks
England take on the All Blacks at Twickenham in driving rain
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 […]
