Cricket Thread

Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Sorry, I know this thread is supposed to be about the Test (mainly), and the match is poised in an interesting way.

But I'm very, very out of touch with county cricket, and it's very hard to follow from abroad, unless you're hooked up to satellite tv (I'm not). Curious to know: what gives a county like Surrey its leverage?
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You can watch every County Championship Game on YouTube for free. Same with the T20 Blast and presumably the same for the One Day Cup.

All you need to do is find the home teams YouTube channel.

I.e.

Lancashire - https://youtube.com/@lancashirecrickettv?si=C1q2JOxG7a8WatXf

Northamptonshire - https://youtube.com/@northantsccc?si=dNdub1z0EHyZHNdc

Etc

It's not as good as a TV game hosted on Sky but the coverage gets better by the year.
 
crooky said:
You can watch every County Championship Game on YouTube for free. Same with the T20 Blast and presumably the same for the One Day Cup.

All you need to do is find the home teams YouTube channel.

I.e.

Lancashire - https://youtube.com/@lancashirecrickettv?si=C1q2JOxG7a8WatXf

Northamptonshire - https://youtube.com/@northantsccc?si=dNdub1z0EHyZHNdc

Etc

It's not as good as a TV game hosted on Sky but the coverage gets better by the year.
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Many thanks. Was completely unaware of that.
You can see why nobody goes to the grounds any more!
 
AliBobbyJ said:
Mentioned this before but in his Autobiography Neville Cardus writes about his time as assistant cricket coach at Shrewsbury School just before the First World War; his descriptions of walking across the cricket fields of a summer evening to gather the stumps or of sitting by the river with a book are about as evocative of a bygone England as you can get.
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The other side of bucolic cricket, of course, is brilliantly represented by that match in The Go-Between. With all the unspoken needle between “gentlemen” and “players” ( plus the fact that Alan Bates is knocking off Julie Christie, who's playing Edward Fox's wife, and they're both facing each other in the match).
Incidentally, just occurred to me that that story's situated in the Edwardian England you're talking about. As you'll know.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Many thanks. Was completely unaware of that.
You can see why nobody goes to the grounds any more!
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I actually think it encourages people to go.

Before I'd have little idea of what happened in the other games and go in a bit blind. Now I can watch the occasional games and having that extra context, it makes me more likely to go to a game or talk about it to my mates etc.
 
What mug goes to the 4th Day of the test and decides to leave the ground to get a train home at the drinks break at 16:40….
 
jimharri said:
You are that soldier? Deary me. Don't tell me that you left early on 13/5/2012 as well.
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It was sadly. In fairness play was a bit flat and we both had two hour plus journeys to look forward to so I suggested leaving.
If it’s football I’m in the never leave early brigade!
 
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