Category: Cricket - Editorial (34 articles)
Cricket’s confusing parallel universe – How fixture scheduling and media coverage shape our domestic county game in the current sporting marketplace
Posted: 22nd September 2015
As the end of the domestic cricket season approaches, I sense a feeling of relief, not because I want the cricket to end but because, I won’t have to try…
Category: Cricket - Editorial
Another great day at the cricket – Essex and Surrey deliver a wonderful day of county cricket as I return to Castle Park, Colchester
Posted: 10th August 2015
The middle and off stumps flew out of the ground, one a split second after the other. We were going to win, weren’t we? A short while later it was…
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300 Test wickets and just a handshake – A look back at the 1964 English cricket season
Posted: 12th August 2014
Fred Trueman and 1964. That summer was a significant time for the Yorkshire fast bowler as towards its’ end, he took his 300th wicket in Test cricket. Fred was the…
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Not such a dog’s breakfast now, thankfully – A review of the ECB’s changes to the domestic cricket fixture list for 2014
Posted: 17th April 2014
Over the last few years, if anyone mentioned the domestic cricket fixture list to me, I’d react a bit like a dog with a bone about to have it taken…
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Sleeping with his feet up – Sir Ian Botham OBE walks again for charity
Posted: 24th October 2013
Respect to Sir Ian Botham OBE who is off again on another fundraising walk, this time across Sri Lanka. He was just interviewed on the radio talking about his current…
Category: Cricket - Editorial
