3 minute readGed writes: I prepared a splendid picnic, though I say so myself, for me and Daisy to enjoy on the Saturday of the Lord’s Ashes Test. Breakfast muffins stuffed with juicy coriander prawns was the centrepiece of the midday feast. The main event, though, was focaccia-wiches, containing Big Al deLarge’s
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Middlesex v Worcestershire at Uxbridge – match report
2 minute readDumbo, Ged’s Suzuki Jimny writes: Not all that long after taking Ged and Daisy to Ireland, where I got to watch my first snippet of a cricket match at Clontarf CC, Ged asked me to take him to Uxbridge to see day two of Middlesex v Worcestershire. I was very
Continue readingEssex v Australians at Chelmsford – match report
3 minute readMy name is Ivan. I am Ged’s smart phone. One of the few things I cannot do is take a selfie; my friend Ida took this picture. I wear a protective cover in the style of an old-fashioned calculator. I am told that this is a joke. I went with
Continue readingLord’s Cricket Ground tour – not a match report
2 minute readBert writes: This website has a number of obsessions. Cricket is one, obviously, but there’s cats and fat cricketers and ankylosing spondylitis and all sorts of other stuff. And there is the apostrophe, with particular reference to the correct use thereof. The thing is, I don’t think this is especially
Continue readingAnyone For Real Tennis? – England v New Zealand match report
2 minute readGed writes: Two days after my last-minute-dot-ticket-office, cocktail-avoiding day at the Lord’s Test with Charley the Gent Malloy, I returned for my long arranged Sunday visit with Daisy. The weather forecast had been dreadful, but we woke up and indeed arrived at the ground on a beautiful sunny Sunday. Daisy
Continue readingScarborough Cricket Festival match report
2 minute readEd writes: I went to the Scarborough Cricket Festival. Here’s nearly proof. Yorkshire playing Durham in a top-of-table Div 1 encounter. Your proverbial 32-pointer. We bought our tickets at the turnstiles. At the same time, my Dad was at Trent Bridge. His ticket was more fancy. We asked where we
Continue readingCocktails For Two – England v New Zealand match report
2 minute readGed writes: “Have you brought the actual bottle of red wine you forgot to bring last time?” I asked, as I arrived to find Charley the Gent Malloy in the front row of the Mound Stand. “Absolutely – here it is,” said Charley, showing off a very appealing-looking bottle of
Continue readingAshes match report – day one at Trent Bridge
3 minute readBert writes: There is a law around these parts, that match reports must not UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES mention the actual cricket. Normally, this presents few problems. Cricket is largely incidental, both to a day at the match and to this website. “About the cricket, but not ABOUT the cricket”, best
Continue readingClontarf Second XI v Laois match report
4 minute readDumbo The Suzuki Jimny writes: My name is Dumbo. I am a little Suzuki Jimny, making my living by being Ged Ladd’s car. In our neighbourhood I have lots of big relatives, mostly Range Rovers, commonly known as Chelsea tractors. Those big posh Range Rover fellas claim that they are
Continue readingDay three of the 2015 Edgbaston Ashes Test – match report
4 minute readBert writes: The final day of the Edgbaston Test wasn’t supposed to be that. In fact, at tea on day two, there was considerable doubt as to whether the final day would actually happen at all. Not that there wouldn’t have been a final day, of course, that doesn’t make
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