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Tag: The Oval

Cricket

Surrey vs Hampshire – Day 2

15 Apr 2022
LV County Championship - Friday 15th April 2022 - The Oval It's back! Last week the start of the county championship was heralded by snow flurries in some parts of…
Cricket

Southern Braves v Trent Rockets

21 Aug 202121 Aug 2021
Friday 20th August 2021 - The Hundred Eliminator at The Oval, London It was probably not the show-piece event that the organisers had hoped for. After the drama of the…
Cricket

Oval Invincibles vs Trent Rockets

9 Aug 20219 Aug 2021
Sunday 8th August 2021 - The Hundred at The Oval, London Farcical...that is the only word that can describe most of what happened at The Oval on Sunday. If the…
Cricket

Surrey vs Gloucestershire

1 Jun 20211 Jun 2021
Sunday 30th May 2021 - The LV County Championship - The Kia Oval, London I'm going to be honest here. Four day cricket has never been my thing. Images of…
England…

2016 – A year in football

1 Jan 201730 Dec 2016
So that was 2016.  A year most will remember for famous people dying, although the stats will show that no more than a normal year (our love of Social Media…
Cricket

Bank Holiday blues as Surrey are thwarted by the rain

5 Jun 2012
I couldn't hold out any longer...two weeks without any sport and I was a broken man.  So I made my excuses from Her Majesty's BBQ in the garden and headed…
Cricket

It’s just not cricket

10 Jul 201015 Jul 2010
Can you imagine Manchester United playing Chelsea in a home game at The Emirates, or West Ham playing Everton at Anfield?  It simply would not happen unless there was a…
Cricket

A double dose of disappointment

20 Jun 201024 Jun 2010
England woke up on Saturday 19th June to a dark cloud hanging over most areas.  The events the previous evening in Cape Town had taken the wind out of the…
Cricket…

The return of the JBO 4

26 Aug 200914 Nov 2009
The Jolly Boys were back. After the return of Take That, Duran Duran and more recently the Reynolds Girls, it was time for one of the most formidable acts of…
Cricket

Access all areas

14 Jun 200914 Jun 2009
I wasn't going to do a report from the cricket today but after Danny managed to get to the Oval early and bag us our own Executive Box (to be…
Cricket

Twenty20 Part 2

14 Jun 200914 Jun 2009
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Cricket

Well I’ll be (E)damned! – 20 observations from the Twenty20

7 Jun 20097 Jun 2009
There seems little point in providing a blow by blow account of the Twenty20 games as there is so much media coverage of it already.  But having attended the first…

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