Diary of a Vegan Cricketer (Week Six)
Six weeks in and have only played one league game, and I can’t buy a run (or any luck). Bowling is good, body improving each game, but need to focus …
Diary of a Vegan Cricketer (Week Five)
Almerimar is certainly no place to be a Vegan, one coaching session, a trip to Lords, T20’s should not be played in Whites! and availability issues before the season has …
Diary of a Vegan Cricketer (Week Four)
Playing as a Bowler for the first time, being a Vegan is really highlighting the issues of inclusivity, some great progress with the NBCC LGBTQ+ team and Church Eaton, but …
Diary of a Vegan Cricketer (Week Three)
The season starts (ish), first request to provide dietary preferences, (yet) another cricket app, 8:56 Foundation (@856Foundation), and a change of plans for the season! 2024 Season Week Three: April …
Diary of a Vegan Cricketer (Week One)
In January I ‘went Vegan’ or as I prefer to call it ‘plant based’ for two very simple reasons: I could not accept that any animal should suffer so that …
Off Season Review
Has been a very strange off season for me: I have hardly picked up a bat or ball other than when coaching, which has taken up a lot of my …
Dry January #37
Once again today will see me start my annual Dry January, the 37th consecutive year. My ‘record’ was two years dry around the time we moved to Spain, and this …
Season Review & Off Season Plans
The end of my third season since the ‘great comeback’ in 2020 aged 57 following a 33 year break from the game, and this was always going to be the …