365 Sporting Days
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With only 2 days notice for the away teams I imagine travelling will have been a big ask. Lancashire had played at Lord’s and Somerset at New Road Worcester. From there Lancs went to the Ageas Bowl and Somerset Trent Bridge. I was in Newcastle to watch my rugby team Saracens win the Champions Cup, Trent Bridge is very nearly […]
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 day, so, a facts based, […]
There were 6 matches yesterday on a working day, today? Just the one as Sussex travelled up to Lord’s to take on Middlesex. With that in mind I’m going to write a little on Pakistan’s warm up match against Kent. Middlesex v Sussex 298 All Out Dawid Malan won the toss for Middlesex and put Sussex in to bat. Philip […]
6 matches today and as I look down the list I can see that 5 of them were decided by the Duckworth Lewis Stern Method. I tend to write these matches up in the order they’re posted on the BBC, which means my torture can come last. One of the benefits of the D/L method is that the result isn’t […]
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 before the weather intervened, in […]
4 matches today on the day the weather decided to be more April like than Summer like. That saw all 4 matches decided by the mystery that is the Duckworth Lewis method, I’m not expecting many Star Men from today’s proceedings. 4 matches today on the day the weather decided to be more April like than Summer like. That saw […]
Today I surprised myself by choosing to stay at home with my daughter who’s visiting from Paris rather than going to the Oval to watch Surrey v Essex. That meant I kept track online and missed out on what proved to be a low scoring game. There was no cricket yesterday, on Easter Monday, today on a working day there […]
Good Friday and a glorious day saw a local derby played against a decent crowd at the Cloud FM County Ground. This was in effect Round 2 of the Royal London Cup, in Round 1 all 6 teams who batted first went on to win the game, including Essex against Glamorgan. Ryan ten Doeschate won the toss for Essex and […]
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 elected to bat; they fell […]
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 put a match on a […]
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, in 4 of those the […]
A disappointing Royal London Cup Final
Kent v Yorkshire in their Royal London Cup Qtr Final – more Phlog than Blog
I’d bought a ticket for the Royal London Cup Final as soon as they became available, it was something of a result that Surrey, my second team, had made it all the way. Not so much of a result that the day was sandwiched between two Rugby World Cup games in Twickenham. I had a nightmare of a journey home […]
After an evening watching women’s international cricket it was back to the men’s game. Essex faced the might of Yorkshire in their Royal London home quarter final. Yorkshire’s batting featured Adam Lyth, Jonny Bairstow and Gary Ballance amongst others, one thing to be thankful for was that Joe Root hadn’t been included. With uncertain weather Ryan ten Doeschate put the […]
This is all a bit odd as I’m having to go back in time – less than a week but boy I’ve seen some sport in that time! But, I must keep a record of every sporting event I go to especially in 2015. (Can’t see me stopping in 2016) On top of this being a little after the fact […]
365 Sporting Days 