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Yesterday evening I found myself with an hour to kill before collecting the wife from the airport, so I switched on the telly, hoping to find a spot of cricket. What I found instead was the BBC 6 o’clock News, … Continue reading
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Five lessons We Have Learned From the Ashes One England should play all home Tests against Australia either at Edgbaston or Trent Bridge. This may not suit southerners but there is sound logic to this: 1) Both are geographically placed … Continue reading
“To play county cricket,” Sir Gareth Sobers once said, “you have to love eating salad three times a day.” Is it salad that drives so many cricketers to end their own lives or is it the game itself, as cricket … Continue reading
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Here, among the very old, the very young, the unemployed and the unemployable, I sit in the part conference room, part railway waiting room quasi-splendour of Lancashire CCC’s new pavilion, opened on Tuesday afternoon prior to the YB40 match against … Continue reading
There must be a reason for this. Because it couldn’t happen anywhere else. Let’s be clear, cricket over-rides the rules of life. Nothing, but nothing, gets in the way of tea. It’s day 4 of a rain-affected well and it’s … Continue reading
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Chris Gayle recorded the fastest professional ton on Tuesday playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League. It took him 30 deliveries to get to this landmark. Friday was the second day of the four-day division two … Continue reading
