The final day of the group matches in the Southern league saw Hampshire sitting out, but also sitting pretty at the top of the table with a home semi-final guaranteed. There was all to play for in all 4 games, with 4 teams still in with a shout of a play-off place. There’d been a … More The Royal London Cup – Star Men Watch – Day 16
Sunday 5th May gave us 4 Royal London Cup matches, a top spot was up for grabs, the match I was at was purely for pride between Kent and Essex. It may have been May but it felt more like November for most of the day at Beckenham, 5 layers and I was still cold! … More The Royal London Cup – Star Men Watch – Day 14
Yesterday was a Bank Holiday Monday, there were no Royal London Cup games. Today is a Tuesday, a work day, today there were 5 Royal London Cup games. Go figure! Again I was lucky enough to be at one, cue photos of players in red shirts! Durham 229 All Out v Lancashire 230 for 7 … More The Royal London Cup – Star Men Watch – Day 10
A Sunday and 7 matches, one of which I was at (You can probably guess which!) I’m sitting down to write this as Line of Duty is on the TV, I have work in the morning, so bed will be calling. However I’ve become slightly obsessed with getting these written and out on the same … More The Royal London Cup – Star Men Watch – Day 9
Only 2 games were scheduled in this particular ’round’ only one produced a result as the weather again behaved like an April day. Glamorgan v Kent A cricket match in Cardiff in April is always likely to be at risk. Chris Cooke won the toss for Glamorgan and elected to bat. 15 overs were bowled … More The Royal London Cup – Star Men Watch – Round 6
Easter Sunday saw 7 matches take place on another glorious day, including the ‘War of The Roses’. My County, Essex weren’t involved so it was a family day for me – here’s a round up of what occurred. Yorkshire 310 All Out v Lancashire 311 for 6 Dane Vilas won the toss for Lancashire and … More The Royal London Cup – Star Men Watch – Round 3
Good Friday and 8 games were played around the country, the match I was at – Essex v Middlesex had a really good crowd. We have member parking and it was full by 9:30 for an 11am start, then we had queues to get into the ground. Isn’t it funny what can happen when you … More The Royal London Cup – Star Men Watch – Round 2
I wasn’t going to do this, it may be hard to keep up with things in the next few weeks, but, I just have to, there have been some stand out performances today! Including a century from my favourite player outside of Essex and one for an Essex opener too. There were 6 matches today, … More The Royal London One Day Cup – Star Men watch!
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 on both divisions but deciding to do a write up for each round means I’m taking more notice, and I literally couldn’t believe my eyes … More The County Championship – Week 2 – Division 2
Having been at the horror show that was the 3rd ODI between these 2 teams at Lords I was hoping for a very different performance from the home team. Captain Eoin Morgan had said before the 3 match series started that all in the squad would get a game, that meant that several of the … More England v South Africa – T20 – Sophia Gardens
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