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You’ll have had your tea, Hamish
By Will 3 months ago, No Comments; be the first!
We just got an email alerting us to a rather embarrassing typo that we’d missed, misspelling Amla as Hamish. I much prefer it.
No Comments »Cricket in the foothills of a mountain
By Will last year, mid-June, 1 Comment »
Bit 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”.
Can v NZ; Neth v Scot, World Cup
By Will last year, at the end of March, 17 Comments »
Canada take on New Zealand and Netherlands face Scotland in today’s games. I was depressed and alarmed at Zimbabwe’s listless, pathetic performance yesterday. They were shockingly poor. But as my boss noted, it’s not the players’ who are to blame. They’re just too young, too inexperienced. Nevertheless, they should not be in this tournament - morally or otherwise. Anyway, keep your eye on the scorecards below and leave your thoughts, like the winners you all are.
Canada v New Zealand scorecard
Netherlands v Scotland scorecard
Ken v NZ; Scot v SA, World Cup
By Will last year, mid-March, 9 Comments »
Kenya take on New Zealand today - can’t wait to hear how that goes. New Zealand looked good against England (not hard) but Kenya…well, I really fancy their chances. How they cope with the tournament’s most outstanding fast bowler, Shane Bond, will be interesting.
Scorecard links are below…then leave your thoughts.
Kenya v New Zealand
Scotland v South Africa
Aus v Scot. Can v Ken. World Cup
By Will last year, mid-March, 57 Comments »
Two cracking games today: Australia v Scotland; Canada v Kenya. I still fancy Scotland to upset somebody, perhaps not Australia though. Stranger things happen though.
I’ve a day off so will miss both of them…leave your own thoughts below.
57 Comments »World Cup, third warm-ups: live discussion
By Will last year, mid-March, 5 Comments »
The penultimate day of warm-ups. Bangladesh and Scotland ought to be a good game. Bermuda v Zimbabwe…less so.
Bangladesh v Scotland
Three Ws Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados
Bermuda v Zimbabwe
Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St Vincent
Canada v Ireland
Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Ground, St Augustine, Trinidad
Kenya v Netherlands
Trelawny Stadium, Jamaica
World Cup. First warm-ups: live discussion
By Will last year, at the start of March, 10 Comments »
So, the warm-ups are upon us. Today’s are as follows
Bermuda v England
Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St Vincent
Ireland v South Africa
Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Ground, St Augustine, Trinidad
Scotland v Sri Lanka
Three Ws Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados
Kenya v West Indies
Trelawny Stadium, Jamaica
It should be particularly fascinating watching, or hearing about, Scotland battle against Sri Lanka and Kenya’s match against the West Indies. Anyway, this is being posted a couple of days in advance so who knows what might happen between now and Monday afternoon. Waffle away in the comments below.
10 Comments »Do you care about the Associates?
By Will last year, mid-February, 25 Comments »
I’ve always been interested in the lower echelons of cricket, and was pleasantly surprised at the standard of cricket - in particular from Kenya, Scotland and Ireland - during the World Cricket League in Nairobi. But I remain realistic of their ability and a little clueless as to how they can develop and close the gap on Full Member nations.
What about you? This blog has never concentrated on any one aspect of the game - ok, so England have received a fair bit of attention - and most of you seem to have a broad interest of the game. Do you care about Ireland, Netherlands or Canada? Will you watch them in the World Cup? Do you follow their progress on other sites and, if so, which ones? Are you even aware Bermuda have a side?
Tell all.
25 Comments »Kenya bulldoze Scotland
By Will last year, mid-January, 4 Comments »
I’ve been closely following Kenyan cricket in the past few months, as I’m off to Nairobi in a couple of weeks to cover the World Cricket League. Non-Test cricket has always interested me, but I freely admit that only until quite recently did I realise it had such a following. Kenya’s game looks and sounds in very good order at the moment, too.
I didn’t watch today’s one-dayer between Kenya and Scotland - the first in the ICC Tri-Series at Mombasa - but followed it on the scorecard from our scorer at the ground, and from our man-on-the-spot, David Waters, who kindly gave us some colour. Scotland took a right pasting and there was a fifty from Ravi Shah, making his comeback, who is one of the very classiest (so I’m told) non-Test batsmen out there. It’ll be terrific seeing him and others in Nairobi, and also watching the standard of cricket (and the level of interest).
4 Comments »Blind faith of cricket fans
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of November, No Comments; be the first!
A Scotsman has sold his house to follow England in the Ashes.
In case you mis-read that, I’ll type it again. A Scotsman has sold his house to follow England in the Ashes. Here’s the big winner:
He got £180,000 for his pad and is now jobless, homeless and watching England get a pasting in Australia. It could only happen to a Brit. More at the Mirror.
No Comments »Cricket in Scotland
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of September, 2 Comments »
I’m not entirely sure this is a cricket ground, but it’s tagged as such…and either way, it’s a terrific shot which works very well in black and white. Dramatic.
Where shall I go on holiday?
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of August, 15 Comments »
NB: nothing to do with cricket…
I’ve got a couple of weeks off in October so I need to start planning for a holiday. Where should I go? Italy is high up on the list, as usual, but so is New York (Ryan, reply to your emails dammit), Antigua, Scotland and others. Tight budget, not into five-star hotels - although, of course, if you happen to be working at British Airways or another airline and wish to bump me up to First Class, do get in touch. Suggestions, please! (maybe I’ll run a poll…or not)
15 Comments »Beach cricket in Scotland
By Will 2 years ago, mid-August, 3 Comments »
This is superb! On a beach near Fife in Scotland; even in August, Scotland can be a chilly place. But it’s always beautiful. I spent so many holidays in my youth on the west coast of Scotland - an incredible country. Check out the larger photo too.
Scotland’s poor smokers
By Will 2 years ago, at the end of March, 3 Comments »
Yes it kills you. Yep, it’s bloody expensive and lulls you into a fall sense of unbridled satisfaction. It smells, it lingers, it stains. But it’s our/their/your right. Pity Scotland and her happy smokers, for today marks the beginning of the end.
I know it’s wrong. In fact, me and a mate were accosted by an elderly drunked in the pub the on Friday who had, after 50 years of puffing, finally given up. Well done that man. I usually resent the preaching of recently-quit smokers, but his insistence was too pressing. Much of his ramblings were incomprehensible, no doubt fuelled by another equally wonderful poison, but he did make one useful observation: smoking is the biggest con around. It is. And we’re all the more pathetic for it. However ridiculous as it sounds - and I tell my brother this on an almost weekly basis - we enjoy it!
As I lit up another one, and supped on my beer in a remarkably cheap pub which does beer for £2.80, it got me thinking. 2006 will be the year I quit - it will - but nevertheless, I despise the nanny state and dictatorship we live in. Maybe the government are covering their arses for the eventual influx of law suits (”no one told me it would kill me!”) from society’s gluttonous creatures. Nevertheless, it makes me angry that someone in government can tell us - law-abiding, polite, hard-working tax-payers - not to smoke.
Oh, and by the way, the bars housed on the Thames in Parliament are exempt from the upcoming ban on smoking; those very same minions will happily puff on their cigarettes while the rest of us suffer in the stupifaction of better health and a nicotineless existence.
Yes it’s bad, but it’s also our choice. Meanwhile, Jacques Kallis has just hit his 24th hundred (vain attempt to make this rant related to cricket, which it clearly aint)
Apologies, shan’t rant about non-cricket matters here again.
3 Comments »The BBC and football’s intrusion on our summer of cricket
By Will 3 years ago, mid-August, 3 Comments »
The BBC, who now must be regretting their decision not to fight for the TV rights of cricket in Britain, published an interesting piece on football’s intrusion on our summer of Ashes fun. The Beeb are a non-commercial organisation, despite taxing us each year for the privledge of watching TV, yet their fondness of Football has always irked me somewhat. BBC Radio Five Live is an excellent station, but the dominance Football has had on our airwaves has been depressing for a cricket fan…until this summer! It has been encouraging to see the Beeb spend so much time on cricket on the radio; even their newsreaders seem to have been taught the rules of the game.
They no longer look surprised when uttering “England ended with a score of four HUNDRED and fourty four runs today.” Massive emphasis on HUNDRED. It’s a cricket score, BBC people - they tend to get into the hundreds you know.
Also noteworthy today was the news that the BBC are to broadcast their first cricket match on TV for six years. Before you get excited, it’s only available to the lucky Scots, for their one-day game against the mighty Australians. The Telegraph have more on this.
Are the BBC regretting handing over the rights to Channel 4 (in 1999), and now Sky? You bet they are…
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