Category: Match report

2 minute read Wickman from Royal Cricket writes: My sister in law and I are Surrey members so we decided to go to a 40 over game. I’ve only become a member this year, but I haven’t been organised enough to get to the Oval. So I was pretty excited about getting into

2 minute read Bert writes: Cricket offers so much more than any other sporting experience. Very often it poses a series of moral and philosophical questions worthy of any Radio 4 mid-afternoon programme. There’s the “how white can white possibly get?” type question, or the “is darkness a thing in itself, the absence

3 minute read Dandy 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 read Okay, 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 read 668 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 read Ged 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 read Ritesh 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 read Ged 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 read We 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