Staffordshire Relocated
Thought I would check on Play Cricket to see if they had posted the fixtures for Staffordshire Cricket yet (they haven’t) and got a bit of a shock to see …
Pre Season and Out
Two pre season games this week and a visit to the physio and whilst I have performed well with both bat (17 not out off 12 and 24 off 18) …
A Weeks R&R
A much needed week off from anything other than walking the dogs and some stretching gave me the opportunity (well no excuse really) to get some jobs done around the …
Has BazBall Saved The County Game?
I doubt many would disagree that in recent years the ECB’s thinking has been somewhat difficult to understand and the phrase “can’t see the wood from the trees’ has been …
Off Season Plans: Fitness, Rehab & Training
Here we go again another off season that starts with the need to rehab an injury I have been carrying since the second game of the season and which I …
Season Two: Reflections
Time for some post season reflections again, a season which in many ways mirrored last season, my first playing again after 33 year break between innings. Next Season then, what are …
Season Two: September Round Up
Final month of a very mixed season: dominated again by injury, but when I played I played much better than last season, introduced myself to Staffordshire Seniors, got more clarity …
The Forty Club
I mentioned in my July Diary that I had played for an invitational team against a Dubai Club and that I was becoming more involved (well aware really) of the …
Season Two: June Round Up
First game of the month was the first game of the season to be rained off. Mixed emotions as wanted to carry on from previous weeks form, but with regards …
Season Two: May Round Up
If last month was a mixed start to the season then May has been very mixed, very frustrating and very rewarding. Fair to say that following my limited involvement in …
Yorkshire County Cricket Club NED’s: My Thoughts
At the Yorkshire County Cricket Club AGM on May 28th members will be asked to vote on a number of new Independent NED appointments, a few ‘housekeeping tasks’ but not …
Season Two: April Round Up
A mixed start to the season! It was a nailed on certainty that after all the winter nets, the analysis of my game, the talking rather than doing that in …
What Next For England Cricket
A lot has (and is) being said about the future of England Cricket, and as usual lots of symbolic comparison to the deckchairs on the Titanic are being made. This …
Staffordshire Seniors Cricket
Returning to the cricket field last year, aged 57 after a 33 year break, I wrote several times that I had set myself the target of paying Seniors Cricket for …
What Next For ECB & Team England
I have been trying to write this post for a while but every time I thought it was ready England and/or the ECB shot themselves in the foot again. Mens …
Time to restructure County Cricket Membership
I am a Full Member at both Yorkshire and Warwickshire County Cricket Cub and from that fact alone you would get extremely good odds on me being white, the wrong …