Cricket Burble

 Played yesterday for a Hertfordshire over 60s side at Stotfold. Beautiful ground where Letchworth Garden City play some of their home matc...

   Kent Village Cricket League sounds pretty, well Village actually but not so. Most clubs have a County II or Academy player or two and ...

If KP wants to get back into the Test Team by scoring shed-loads of runs he's obviously wise to face 2nd Division attacks. But wouldn...

 Is the pointlessness of limited over games between mis-matched sides. What is the point of Afghanistan trying to "chase" Austr...

Love this headline....!!   I hope Ballance doesn't become another victim of mismanagement by the England selectors/hierarchy and k...

Time will tell, but I suspect that they'll have zero impact on the end winner.   I may well have written on here before about how - a...

I see that the ACT XI allowed our tourists to bat without bothering with a toss. That shows true understanding of your duties as the host o...

Funnily enough I found myself wondering why MS Dhoni was still playing Tests earlier in the Australia/India series - he's now made th...

Obviously I haven't read it and I'm not rushing out to buy Kevin Pietersen's book.   But it's almost impossible to avoid ...

that Yorkshire has a player called Ballance and one called Leaning ?

   I suppose it's because I used to drink with the secretary of The Institute of Journalists that I'm very aware of the occasiona...

There was all that stuff written about how Andrew Gale wasn't allowed to lift the County Championship trophy because of his various d...

  It's accepted that we are all addicts on planet cricket but when we care about the result it's often very painful to watch cric...

  You may or may not have noticed that it's been announced that the England women's rugby 7s team squad has turned professional ,...

Azeem Rafiq, it was announced last week, will be leaving Yorkshire at the end of the season in search of 4 day and one day cricket aft...

Having talked about an Aussie who is clearly very unlucky not to get picked for his country, now we come to Ravi Bopara of England.   I c...

When you live on the other side of the world it's fairly easy to come to the conclusion that Australian batsman Phil Hughes is pret...

I'd like to say that we already have a Jack Russell painting on our wall but the reality is that the painting we have of our wedding ...

Only a couple of weeks ago, Ravi Patel, and old boy of Merchant Taylors' School, was called up by England Lions for their forthcomin...

We've all been there....trying to explain the laws of cricket to someone that starting from zero knowledge.   It's tough to say t...

Only last week on tour with the OMTs did the subject of England's spinner come up.   Although I think Moeen Ali has done a fantastic ...

Alastair Cook said to Mark Nicholas that people were probably quite happy watching the England players hook and pull when it went betwe...

Prior has apparently quit cricket for the rest of the summer to try to get fit....it's on Sky TV but not even on Cricinfo yet. ...

If I hadn't watched England get out to 3 pull/hook shots in the last 15 minutes I wouldn't have believed it possible for internati...

Interesting to hear the debate on TMS about who could replace Alastair Cook should he go as captain - if it happens wouldn't Englan...