I’ve been thinking long and hard about this, I watched a lot of cricket in 2017, I’m going to go month by month I saw so many top performances! This could well end up being more like a novel than an article. I’m only including cricket I saw live. I have an overlap in April … More My top cricket performances in 2017 – Part 1
I watched a lot of cricket this Summer and took thousands of photos, I can’y whittle them down to 10 is so am going to share these with you, trying to add in the player, date, venue and teams playing. Staring with the Champions Trophy, where I was lucky to see 7 games including the … More My Top Cricket Photos in 2017
I’m coming to this late after being out all day watching my county team Essex play for the last 3 days, they beat Warwickshire by an innings and 164 runs! I have to confess my allegiance as far as the Champions trophy final is concerned, I am English and England are my team, but Pakistan … More India v Pakistan – The ICC ChampionsTrophy Final
Match 6 of my Champions Trophy watching gave me the chance to see 2 of the best teams in the world for a second time. I was hoping both would play to their potential. Amazingly the trains from Chelmsford were working which gave me quite a nice day trip albeit with an early start. The … More India v South Africa
Match 5 of my Champions Trophy took me back to the Oval, I was very excited to be watching Virat Kohli and his India. I’d watched them play test cricket in England in 2014 and knew I would be watching a very different team. Virat Kohli has in the intervening years become one of the … More India v Sri Lanka
Logistics were interesting again to get to this match at Edgbaston, I had a dinner for the Chris Gayle Foundation to go to in London the night before and a game at the Oval the day after. With this in mind I booked an Airbnb near Euston and a Virgin Train to Birmingham and back … More Pakistan v South Africa
Having seen Australia ‘rained off’ at Edgbaston I was hoping for a better day at The Oval. The fact I didn’t get soaked did I suppose mean it was better, but the result for the cricket was to be the same. I was sitting in the new Peter May Stand which meant I was amongst … More Bangladesh v Australia
Having watched England kick off their Champions Trophy campaign with a win I headed back to my car in Hampstead to drive up to Birmingham for Game 2 between two Southern Hemisphere rivals. The forecast wasn’t the best and it’s accuracy will make this account more of a Phlog than a Blog. I woke up … More Australia v New Zealand
Having been at Lords to see England’s horror show against South Africa I was looking forward to a good game of cricket at the Oval in the opening Champions Trophy match. I’d only received 2 tickets through the ICC ballot, including the final, but access as a Surrey and England member and persistence with the … More England v Bangladesh
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