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 …
What Next 4 Yorkshire County Cricket Club Members
What started off as a potentially explosive week for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and cricket in general in England, fast became a highly emotive week for Cricket in general. Still …
Cricket Diary: Old Haunts
Another cancelled match. Another failure with the bat. Another blow on the finger. Another familiar old ground and a few beers with an old foe! The Week That Was No …
Cricket Diary: Mid Season Already
Picked up another two bruises this weekend: one on my inner left thigh, one on my right forearm. Any guesses which one resulted in my dismissal? Monday evening I netted …
Cricket Diary: The Art of Drinking
One of the unexpected pleasures of my return to cricket has been a number of trips down memory lane although not always directly cricket related to be fair. Monday saw …
Cricket Diary: Reflections
Last week I consumed more beer, bread and pastry in three days than I normally do in a year so I sit here typing this weeks diary fighting an urge …
Cricket Diary: An Allrounder!!??
I cleaned the patio on Sunday. Not the most exciting start to a diary post I agree, but a month ago I would have given you long odds on me …
Cricket Diary: Drinking In The Rain
I have news, we have a new boiler. This is news, but is not the news though. The new boiler is way more powerful than the vintage one we inherited …
Cricket Diary: A Weekend Without Cricket Is a Weekend Without Radox
Amazon sell a pack of 10 (5 pairs) of Hot Hands Hand Warmers for £3.99 (£3.79 if you set up a monthly subscription), which are air activated and provide up …
Cricket Diary: H Is Revealed
Amazon sell a pack of three Red Smoke flares for £23.95. This is not a random fact I just happen to know, but the result of a morning researching distress …
Cricket Diary: On Golden Spond
Starting at the end. A great win for the Penkridge 4s, which for some of a certain age may sound a little like the Guildford 6, for which I apologise. …
Cricket Diary: Down To Earth With A Bump
Not quite as promising a week as last week to be fair, but more of that later. Week started off trying to train the dogs that if they needed to …
Supporting The NHS This Cricket Season
I am returning to the cricket field this year for the first time in 33 years, aged 57, I am going to donate money to the NHS for every run …
Development Cricket: My Thoughts
My hope this year is that I can get involved in ‘Development Cricket’ at both Penkridge Cricket Club and Barlaston Cricket Club. I played for Barlaston Cricket Club as a …