Cricket Thread

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Er......

Oh but you're so damn good with your prescient powers… so must have been someone who's hijacked your username.


;-)

 

[jimharri]

It’s amazing the change in him in this innings. Hopefully a coming of age moment for him.

Like to see him get a Michelle here.

 

[jimharri]

Oh but you're so damn good with your prescient powers… so must have been someone who's hijacked your username.


;-)

 

[crooky]

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?

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.

 

[jimharri]

Like to see him get a Michelle here.

Calling @Lovebitesandeveryfing!

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

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.

Many thanks. Was completely unaware of that.
You can see why nobody goes to the grounds any more!

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Calling @Lovebitesandeveryfing!

A stopped clock is right etc…

 

[jimharri]

From 61/0 to 143 all out; it's not great. And it looks a good day for batting as well; negligible cloud, and a docile pitch.

 

[jimharri]

A stopped clock is right etc…

Where did I leave that salty meme?

;-)

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

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.

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.