I am very very tense today. The last day of the last match of the Ashes series, and we need to bat till tea in order to be fairly sure of claiming a draw for the match, and the Ashes for the series.
I was delighted to see Warne finish his over from yesterday, and [...]

I’ve just read Serene England glimpse the promised land about the Ashes and the way today has gone.
I have to say, that’s a wonderful piece of writing, even if it is very nationally biased The way it was described made me, someone who loves the game and has played it for around 13 [...]

Geraint Jones has been taking a fair bit of stick in the Ashes this year for his keeping. He’s dropped a few chances, and is widely acknowledged to be picked because he can bat a bit, rather than because he’s the best keeper we’ve got. But of course, he’s not scoring all that [...]

Time for one of my occasional cricketing posts, though this time not about my own playing (though I will mention the weekends games at the end ;)). In their infinite wisdom, the powers that be have decided to introduce football style subs into one day cricket.
The idea being, that you declare your starting XI, [...]

A Bank Holiday, sunny weather, 3 cricket matches and drinking on a Monday night is not a good combination for working on the Tuesday morning.
Yesterday was baking hot, so I was quite thankfull that we batted first and I could lounge around in the sun for a while, before having to bowl later on when [...]

Skip my long, drawn out story below if you like, and just go and see the new Wellington Federation of Sports Clubs web site, setup by me using Drupal and a few tweaks. A huge improvement over the old site, and some additional improvements to be made yet. I’m hopeful though, that it [...]

It may only be mid-February, but that means indoor training for Cricket is starting on Sunday!
8 weeks till the start of the league season for us I believe, so time to blow away the winter cobwebs and complain about how much my shoulder and legs hurts from bowling again.

Well it’s that time of year again, despite the fact we’re currently experiencing about the best period of weather we’ve had since around May, the cricket season is drawing to an end, one more weekend of friendly cricket left till next April.

The last couple weeks league games have been the kind of games I’d rather forget.
Dropped to the 2nd team, through some poor bowling and a couple other players becoming availible, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. On the one hand, I had been opening the bowling for the 1st team, bowling at a decent [...]