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2 years ago, at the start of NovemberI had a very enjoyable day clay pigeon shooting with Chris Broad and his son Stuart. There were only a few of us there - a media day for Volkswagen - and both of them were on great form. Naturally, although Stuart had never shot before, he beat the rest of us - including Ian Valentine, who writes here, whose full-time job is for the Shooting Times. Photos below (you need Flash installed). A piece will be up at Cricinfo tomorrow or the day after.
I can see me enjoying shooting. It was tricky at first, and I never really got the hang of the “rabbits”. But the faster clays high up in the sky were pretty easy once you “followed through”. And yes, there were loads of cricketing clichés flying about all over the place. West London Shooting School - highly recommend it.
Corridor of Uncertainty number plates
2 years ago, at the end of October“I know that you’re a bit hard up for money to keep the blog going,” Hammy writes, “but to sell number plates relating to your blog? Really. Taken in Perth, Western Australia. I’ve been waiting for ages for the COU number plate to arrive and took a photo of the first one that I came across.”
Not guilty, m’lud. Donations and/or free hosting and/or beer and chocolate gratefully received though.
Cullen Bailey: frog in a blender
2 years ago, at the end of OctoberHave a look at this photo Cullen Bailey, the South Australia leggie.
Awful action. Part of the problem is the angle with which the photo has been taken…but nevertheless, where is he actually looking? Australia’s frog-in-a-blender
Kashmir willow
2 years ago, at the end of OctoberNice shot of a bat being made from Kashmir willow
Cricket in Barcelona?
2 years ago, mid-OctoberWell, of a sort. The Pakistan community in Raval, Barcelona, playing it on a zebra crossing.
India arrive home
2 years ago, at the end of SeptemberA quiet and dignified welcome by Mumbai to India’s World Twenty20 winning team. An understated reaction as ever.
More people
Even more people…
Cars and more, more, more people
Wicket-keeper with 10 broken fingers
2 years ago, at the end of SeptemberWell, eight broken fingers and two broken thumbs. This is David Morrison, a league wicket-keeper who like most Britons has been using that underrated medical solution to ease his joints: a frozen bag of peas.
‘My fingers still work, more or less. I can bend them all from the first knuckle, although I do have a physio who manipulates the joints to soften the tissue.’
Mr Morrison, a taxi driver from Scruton, suffered most of his injuries in his younger days wearing flimsy chamois leather gloves.
He said he had considered retiring from wicket keeping in 2002 but could not bring himself to walk away.
Last weekend he picked up both a Darlington and District League championship medal and a black eye when a 16-year old leg spinner caught him unawares.
‘I’ve told him that his eyes have gone, his fingers have all been broken and he’s far too old for wicket keeping, but he just won’t listen,’ said his long-suffering partner, Valerie Tait, a 62-year-old former landlady.
‘He’s back playing for Barton as if nothing’s happened – then he creeps home on Saturday night with yet another black eye.’
Via Metro.
Elias Henry Hendren
2 years ago, mid-SeptemberHere’s an old caricature drawing of Patsy Hendren, the former England and Middlesex batsman (and a bit of a leg end, it must be said. 170 first-class hundreds…)
More info on Patsy at Cricinfo. Drawing found at Flickr.
Australia claim the (Basra) Ashes
2 years ago, mid-SeptemberBack from my travels, where I was (nearly) blissfully ignorant of all things cricket, but for the annoyingly tantalising dish plonked on my Provincial mansion which streamed Sky News. I couldn’t resist a peak and, after enjoying the clipped report of Zimbabwe’s utter Aussie thrashing, my mood was deflated after watching a truly pitiful England rugby side get trampled over by South Africa.
But what’s this? The bloody Australians have fought back, beating England in the World Twenty20 and also in Basra. How dispiriting. Our soldiers have a hard enough time in Iraq without the exhausting ignominy of losing a game of cricket to them.
Andrew Miller, I presume, has done a report for Cricinfo via his many varied contacts, and there’s a gallery of the travesty too. Meanwhile, here’s a random photo.
What a difference a year makes
2 years ago, at the start of SeptemberHave a look at this. It’s Cricinfo from today, September 1 2007.
Now then. When you manage a site as popular as Cricinfo, it’s especially important we keep our headlines fresh, sharp - and above all, accurate. So when I noticed a colleague had altered the clusters and changed the top headline to “Ruthless,” it struck a chord. Ruthless? This England? Really?
But, in this series at least, they are and they have been. And who’d have thought it after the utter shambles of last year? What a difference a year can make.
Packed crowds at Bisham
2 years ago, mid-JulyAli Khurshid has taken a few cricket shots in the past - this was shot in Bisham, in Pakistan. Terrific shot, but not quite as good as his offering earlier this year (same location, see below).
Cricket in the foothills of a mountain
2 years ago, mid-JuneBit of a photography fiend, me, and this shot combines both my passions: landscape photography and cricket. Just look at it for God’s sake! The ground, for want of a better description, is at Sannox, on the Isle of Arran but yet again, the poor old Sannox team were left waiting by their Glasgow opponents. The local rag, The Arran Voice, said the team were “rightly cheesed off”.
Harmison and his blind guide dog
2 years ago, mid-June
While his master leads the England bowling attack, Steve Harmison’s dog, Magoo, participates in the British Dog Agility Championships.
Via Patrick and Pootergeek.
England unchanged
2 years ago, at the start of JuneSo England announce an unchanged lineup. No change there. I’ve not a lot else to add since I’ve been incarcerated in Devon enjoying things other than cricket, like the beach, and have read precisely nothing. So I just thought I’d pop my head in and say hello.
Hello. The blog will (should) be redesigned in a week or so thanks to Arun, a genius in India who’s kindly taken on the mantle. Anyway, well done everyone.
The Phillip Schofield report
2 years ago, at the end of May
It’s not Ken - it’s Phil. Phillip Schofield, king of daytime television, is the man behind the Schofield Report according to shocking revelations from Mike.
The ECB have been covering it up all this time - and there is increasing evidence that Fern Britton, Schofield’s partner in crime, might also have been involved in the report. The future of English cricket is in the hands of two people with Colgate-fixed smiles.
Here’s the truth
