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 …
View From The Boundary Edge
I mentioned in my recent post confirming the return of my Cricket Diary in 2022 that it would be concentrating on my life on the field – over the white …
Cricket Diary
Returning to play cricket in 2021 aged 57 following a 33 year absence from the game was one of the best (and worst) decisions that I have made. Neither my …
Time to stop selecting and start building the Test Team
The background to this post is the not unexpected early finish to the first test in Australia for the England Team. Well I say not unexpected, and I am pretty …
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 …
What Next @ Yorkshire County Cricket Club
I write this the day before the Digital, Culture Media and Sport Select Committee formal meeting, chaired by Julian Knight, on Tuesday 16 November which will hear oral evidence on …
ECB Scheduling
Like many I am divided in my views over The Hundred. It was entertaining, but it wasn’t exceptional either in terms of quality of the games or the innovations. I …
Approach To Development Team Cricket
I have shared some thoughts regards Development Cricket already, along with a suggestion for a Development Officer within each club. Having played for a couple of teams for a few …
Cricket Debate: I Couldn’t Care Less Who Wins The IPL & The Hundred Should Recognise This.
I love watching the IPL but have no interest at all in who wins, which is strange for me because as a rule I don’t watch sport unless I actually …
Lockdown 3.0: Preparing For Re-Entry
Last Lockdown 3.0 post, and hopefully last Lockdown post ever – you and me both – as this week welcomed the first milestone on our release back into the wild …
Twitter Sphere: It’s NOT online that is killing the High Street
A not so quite, or pleasant week, on Twitter this week with the lowlight being the abuse I got for a joke I made with an actual friend! This was …
Lockdown 3.0: Impact Of COVID-19 on an (anti) Social Drinker
Earlier this year, at the end of January surprisingly, I completed my 34th consecutive Dry January, not that it was called that when I started! To be honest whilst I …
Lockdown 3.0: Street Party Spanish Style
Standing in the queue to be vaccinated it struck me that maybe the reason that the UK is doing so well is that we do like a queue! Throw in …
Twitter Sphere: Vigils, Protests & Rules
The tragic death of Sarah Everard dominated my Twitter timeline this week, which possibly says a lot about the profile of people I follow, but also highlighted once again just …
Twitter Sphere: Anger All Around Us.
I have, thankfully and by design, been very quiet on Twitter this week. That is not to say that Twitter has been quiet or that I have not been aware …
Lockdown 3.0: 1% is a big FAT F*** You to the NHS, and us!!
I clapped them, I stayed inside for 12 months to save them, I even understood when they saved Boris, all the time getting angrier and angrier that successive Governments had …
Twitter Sphere: Cats, COVID-19 & Cricket
Whilst Cats, COVID-19 and Cricket have dominated by Twitter feed this week (not unusual to be fair) by far the most important, and distasteful, issue has been the cyber bullying …
Lockdown 3.0: VDay In Site
Vaccination Day looms. My father has had both of his vaccinations (Pfizer), my mother her first (Oxford) with the second scheduled for April, and Sandra her first (Oxford) with her …
Cricket Debate: The Hundred – How Not To Reward Loyalty
In no way am I the first to put digits on the keyboard to share some thoughts on The Hundred, and in no way will I be the last. It’s …
Lockdown 3.0: Vaccinate, Vaccinate, Vaccinate!
Am beginning to think that Twitter should introduce some for of pre sign up test (to ensure people can read) and maybe some entry level of intelligence could be set …
Cricket Debate: RIP Your Best XI
I have discussed the rotation policy before (and no doubt will do again), but for now I think we need to accept the “good old days” are long gone of …
Cricket Debate: A Modified Toss
The second test at Chennai last week between India and England provided enough debating points to a) prove the enduring value of Test Cricket and b) keep even the most …
Cricket Debate: This Week On Twitter – Getting Children Interested in Cricket, and Rotation Policies
I have enjoyed myself on Twitter this week, or more accurately I have enjoyed being on Twitter this week which is not something I have said (or felt) for a …
Lockdown 3.0: It’s a vaccine, not a cure!
Another week in Lockdown completed, and while the end is still nowhere in site in terms of a full, unfettered return to the wild, the light at the end of …
Cricket Debate: No Balls, DRS & Wasting Time
The coverage of the first test between India and England on Channel 4 was without doubt a welcome return to “Free To Air” (FTA) TV for the sport, and generated …
Lockdown 3.0: What will your “new” normal include? And when?
Another week ticked off, but as to how many more we face who knows? Certainly not this government, or social media, or the so called experts expressing their opinions on …
Lockdown 3.0: What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About Broadcasting Cricket
Back in March 2020 as the UK entered it’s first, and let’s be honest only thing remotely like a, Lockdown much was made of the opportunity for a ‘new’ normal: …
Lockdown 3.0: White, Middle Class and Middle Aged – The New Endangered Species!
Lockdown 3.0 continues, as does life, in a well established pattern now. The “trick” it seems is to do less and take longer doing it. To be fair this is …
Lockdown 3.0: How COVID-19 Has Changed My TV Viewing
Like many, I suspect, I have watched a number of old films again since March 2020, but somewhat ironically not Groundhog Day. No real reason why not, I enjoyed the …
Lockdown 3.0: How Was Your First Week?
I ask because I am a little concerned that I missed the memo cancelling the Lockdown. Walking the dogs back in March in our allotted hour per day we bumped …
Lockdown 3.0: What Different From Previously
Here we go again then, yet another Lockdown. I think this is Lockdown 3.0, but who knows with all the various tiers that we have accelerated through in recent months? …
Memberships v Members Bonds
Same Old, Same Old best sums up the Government, Public and Business approach to the relaxing of what the UK called Lockdown. I say it that way as I don’t …
COVID-19 Diary: Care Homes
Up front, to start with, for the avoidance of ANY doubt, let me be 100% clear – I am 100% against Care Homes for all cases other than those where …
COVID-19 Diary: The New World
I have said before that I doubt that very much will change post COVID-19 as the pressure will be on to return to ‘normal’ as quickly as possible. I mean …
COVID-19 Diary: Sport Without Spectators (Audio)
Is sport really sport without spectators? For the fan it’s more than just a game: Bragging rights after a win, downing a few pints with your mates after a loss, …