Tag: Cricket
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England vs South Africa
Tuesday 19th July 2022 – One Day International- The Riverside, Chester-le-Street It’s normally fun to be a record breaker. As a youngster I grew up on watching Roy Castle and his trumpet on Record Breakers, one of the three TV shows we all wanted to be on (one of which was Mike Reid’s Runaround, the…
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Surrey vs Yorkshire – T20
Wednesday 6th July 2022 – The Vitality T20 Blast – The Oval, London A few weeks ago someone said to me that the only things that was likely to stop Surrey in the T20 this season was their own complacency. At the time, with a 100% record from their first eight games I agreed, although…
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Surrey vs Kent – T20
Friday 1st July 2022 – The Vitality T20 Blast – The Oval, London It was as if we’ve never been away. A sunny Friday night’s cricket in front of a sell-out crowd at The Oval watching the oldest rivalry in county cricket. The result may have been irrelevant with Surrey already guaranteed a home quarter…
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Sussex vs Surrey – T20
Thursday 23rd June 2022 – The Vitality T20 Blast – The County Ground, Hove Another day, another few missing players. That’s been the recurring backstory of Surrey’s unbeaten start to the season as they headed down to the seaside to face Sussex at Hove. Cricket at the County Ground in Sussex always seems to take…
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Kent vs Sussex – T20
Friday 24th June 2022 – The Vitality T20 Blast – St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury Where there’s time, there’s hope is a saying trotted out when there really is neither hope or time. For Kent’s hopes of being the first county to retain their T20 Blast trophy, the moment where hope was overtaken by the lack…
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Netherlands vs England- One Day International
Each side has to play a three game series against eight of the other sides in the Super League. India, and the top seven sides thereafter, will qualify automatically. The remaining five teams will play in a qualifying event, along with five Associate sides from League 2 and the Challenge League, from which two sides…
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Kent vs Surrey – T20
Cricket has come in for some stick this week for its ticket pricing policies which has left empty seats at some grounds, none more so than on Thursday night at The Oval. But Kent’s pricing structure of £25 for adults is about right. The advantage when a team is poor is that you stand a…
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Surrey vs Hampshire – T20
There are few more in-form T20 players in England at the moment than Will Jacks and Sam Curran. Jacks followed up his half-century from Tuesday night with a thirty-ball 50, which included four huge sixes. Not to be outdone at the other end, Curran plundered a similar 50 as the two put on 131 in…
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Surrey vs Gloucs – T20
Surrey v Gloucs – T20 – The Oval – Tuesday 31st May 2022
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Price is only an issue in the absence of value*
The title of this little ramble is one of my favourite phrases. I will often use it when I am talking to sales people who have lost a deal and cite that someone came in an undercut us. Naturally, there are a percentage of deals that are lost purely on price – customer A has…
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The ICC T20 World Cup
I’m not sure that any objective of increasing the interest in the game in the UAE will work on the back of this tournament. There wasn’t many neutral local fans – the support came from expats or migrant workers by the looks of the games we saw. It perhaps was a bizarre choice for the…
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Yorkshire vs Sussex Sharks
Chester-le-Street’s premier pub/hotel and just a ten minute walk away from the Riverside. Whilst the majority of the crowd wouldn’t be local, for most it was “only” an hour and a bit’s drive or 90 minutes on the train from Leeds. The closest hotel to the ground is the imposing Lumley Castle which sits on…
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Southern Braves v Trent Rockets
rather than rowdy, with none of the shenanigans we saw at Lords in the opening games. There were fans from seven of the eight Hundred sides that I saw – the conspicuous absence of anyone wearing a London Spirit top or hat perhaps down to their poor performance in the competition after the hype before…
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Trent Rockets vs Manchester Originals
We’d arrived just as the Manchester Originals had completed a thumping nine wickets win in the Women’s game. Ok, so we took our seats to watch that having first enjoyed some toasted cheese sandwiches and a gin and tonic from a converted van (imagine getting stuck in a traffic jam next to that!). Instead of…
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Nottinghamshire vs Northamptonshire
travels, Grantham was as rural as you could get. Whilst the ground sits almost alongside the A1 it’s a country road walk to civilisation, with nothing around the ground apart from England’s green and pleasant land. Despite this was the one and only game the ground would be hosting, Notts had brought in plenty of…
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