County Cricket – Season 2020 – A draft
County Cricket fans have been waiting with baited breath for the release of the 2020 season fixtures, me amongst them. A draft has been issued laying out the season format, […]
Essex v Surrey – Where did that summer go?
It seems hardly feasible that I’m writing about the penultimate County Championship match of 2019, we’re in mid September and the season is very nearly done. Essex started this match […]
Warwickshire v Essex
Where to start with this one? Two captains made a decision to put their opposition in to bat this week, one, Tim Paine, won the toss at The Oval and […]
Kent v Essex – Wickets and Celebrations Galore!
Where to start with this one! Some might and do say that County Cricket is boring, this match was literally edge of the seat exciting! The first 2 days were […]
Kent v Essex – Proper Cricket is Back! (Part One)
My decision to give the Ashes a miss left me able to see more of Essex cricket this summer. Except the weather scuppered my T20 Blast plans! I believed the […]
For the Love of County Cricket
A catastrophe at New Road Worcester gave me a happy consequence, an extra day of county cricket in Chelmsford. Warwickshire had moved their game against my team Essex only to […]
The County Championship – Week 2 – Division 2
There were some crazy scores in Division 2 in this second round, there were 10 matches with 5,265 runs and 135 wickets taken! I’ve always tended to keep an eye […]
The County Championship Week 2 – Division 1
With my team , Essex, playing at The Oval I managed to witness 2 full days of County Cricket. The photos in this article will be from that game; I […]
Surrey v Essex -Day 2
I’d hoped for 3 things before this day started, for Ryan Patel to get his maiden century, for Surrey to be all out promptly and for the Essex batsmen to […]
Surrey v Essex – The defence of a title starts!
I joined Surrey as a member in 2015, largely with The Ashes in mind, in the years since I’ve formed a soft spot for Surrey in spite of being an […]
The County Championship Week 1 – Division 2
Today I watched an hour or so of cricket! Essex Second XI v Durham Second XI at the Cloud FM County Ground, goodness it was cold! But, I saw some […]
The County Championship Week 1 – Division 1
Work has returned to my life which means I haven’t seen a ball bowled in this first round of the CC, but, for my own records as much as anything […]
Essex County Cricket Squad 2019
The cricket season is here which means media days across the country, after a week of T shirt weather it was truly chilly for the Essex session. This is an […]
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 […]
My Favourite Cricket Moments 2018 (September)
Finishing off a wonderful Summer of cricket!
