Category: Match report

3 minute readDandy Dan writes: Eager to avenge his defeat in last summer’s Test, Ben had spent some of the considerable amount of time that he had on his hands in preparing slightly more professional equipment than we had at our disposal last year. Unfortunately, given that he’d been away from Blighty

2 minute readOkay, we know we say not to mention the cricket in your match reports, but can there at least be some cricket that you avoid mentioning from now on? We’re including this one because it’s largely about food and because it contains some happy news and some good advice. Try

2 minute read668 writes: I started at Newcastle station. “A day return to Seaton Carew, please” “Why do you want to go there?” the ticket guy quizzed me, with genuine amazement and some concern. “Umm, to watch some cricket.” “So you’re not taking a kayak ride then?” “No,” I said. “There is

3 minute readGed Ladd writes: I had been invited to a 30th anniversary reunion at school for this day. The thought of a formal school reunion horrified me, so I arranged to be at cricket during the day and at the theatre in the evening, to ensure my unavailability. I had met

2 minute readRitesh writes: This was my third game at the ground during this year’s IPL. At the previous game, my marriage was almost destroyed when the missus and I had to wait in line for an hour and subsequently had to sit on hard concrete rafters approximately at square leg. So

2 minute readGed writes: A week or so before the match, I e-mailed King Cricket for some advice: “I find myself on business in Manchester Thursday/Friday and have engineered an early evening gap in my activities Thursday so I can see most (at least the closing stages) of England’s T20 semi final.

2 minute readWe write: After several days of maft, day three of the second Test between England and Bangladesh began with wet sunlight. It dried up mid-morning and upon arriving at Old Trafford just after 1pm, we were delighted to see that there was a Wainwright Cask Ale Tent. We paid it

2 minute readDandy Dan wanted to include whispering to Amjad Khan that his was one of the worst debut performances for England that he’d seen, but felt that was far too much to do with the cricket. Instead, he writes: The day started with a feeling of the unknown. I’d invited a

3 minute readGed Ladd writes: When you arrange to go on holiday to Yunnan Province in South West China, you don’t expect much in the way of a cricket experience. Daisy and I ended up in a village named Ringha in the high hills of Yunnan, otherwise known as Greater Tibet. There,