I seem to have been too busy watching cricket recently to write very much about it, or anything else, and the season seems to be hurtling to its conclusion faster than I can keep up with it. So, in attempt to clear the mounting backlog of matches, here is a largely pictorial account of two [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Derbyshire County Cricket Club’
Picture Post : Bedford Modern School and Queen’s Park, Chesterfield
Posted in Cricket, Sport, This England, tagged Bedford Modern School, Bedfordshire County Cricket Club, Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club, Chesney Hughes, Chesterfield, Cricket, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Festival Cricket, James Middlebrook, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club on August 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Who Invented the Dilshan Scoop?
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Bob Wyatt, Cricket, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, James Taylor, Paul Jones, R.C. Robertson-Glasgow, Scoops, Tillekeratne Dilshan, Tommy Mitchell on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“If the cricketers of A.D. 2000 have any time to read of their forerunners, it is not likely that T.B. Mitchell, the little Derbyshire leg-break bowler, will long detain their interest or much excite their wonder.” – R.C. Robertson-Glasgow in Cricket Prints. Back, for a moment, to our Wantaway (or possibly Not-really-wantaway) Starlet, James Taylor. This [...]
“The young man with, perhaps, a greater burden of expectation than anyone alive” – the Daily Mail
Posted in Cookery, Cricket, Sport, This England, tagged Cricket, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, James Taylor, Kate Middleton, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Prince William, Royal family, Weddings on April 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Leicestershire v Derbyshire, Grace Road, 29 April 2011 – County Championship, Day 3 And so it was that, at 11 o’clock yesterday morning, the golden-haired boy on whose shoulders the hopes of a nation rest walked out to meet his destiny. As he emerged with his partner, the merciless paparazzi at last had the picture they had [...]
Anti-climax at Grace Road, as Leicestershire win by ten wickets
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Matthew Hoggard on August 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Leicestershire v Derbyshire, Grace Road, County Championship, 6th August (day 4) I suppose I should have learnt by now that booking a day off work to watch the fourth day of a County Championship match is fraught with peril, but I fancied a long weekend, so decided to take a risk with this one. Throughout [...]
A 99 for Ramprakash (and a regular cone for me)
Posted in Cricket, Sport, This England, Trains, tagged Chesterfield, Cricket, Cricket grounds, Derbyshire, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Ice cream, Mark Nicholas, Queen's Park, Surrey County Cricket Club on July 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Derbyshire v Surrey, Queen’s Park, Chesterfield, County Championship, 28th June Mark Nicholas, in this month’s Wisden Cricketer (for the article in its full horror, see How to make 18 go into 12 ) writes “It would be no shame for some counties to relinquish their first-class status … Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire – to name [...]
News from around our County Grounds, as 20/20 approaches
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Lavatories, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Mike Brearley on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Time for a brief foray into photojournalism. The man the Australians – in less tense times – used to refer to as the Ayatollah - made the very wise remark, in his book The Art of Captaincy - “There is a danger, in these days of necessarily stringent regulations, of over-systemisation, of knocking down the [...]
Time stands still at Derby
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Ken Clarke, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Old Speckled Hen, Stopped clocks, Timelessness on April 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Leicestershire v Derbyshire, Derby, 18 April 2010 (County Championship, day3) I see that the Guardian has begun to run a kind of real-time blog about county cricket Cricket blog- (good to see them giving it some coverage, though I imagine once the internationals start we won’t be seeing much of Mike Selvey at Grace Road, which [...]
Historic day at Grace Road! Leicestershire v Derbyshire, County Championship, 14th August
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, James Taylor, Jigur Naik, Leicestershire, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Steffan Jones, Thrilling draws on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Couldn’t decide yesterday whether to watch Nottinghamshire v Warwickshire at Trent Bridge or go to Grace Road. The eyes of the cricketing world were on Trent Bridge – Bell, Trott, Sidebottom and so on – but I chose Leicestershire. The situation here was that Leicestershire had made a feeble showing in their first innings, Derby [...]
Northamptonshire v Derbyshire, County Championship, the County Ground (Wantage Road), 7 July
Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Cricket, Insects, Nature, Religion, Sport, This England, tagged Bees, Buses, Charles Bradlaugh, Cricket, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Lapdancing, Northampton, Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Playfair, Rain on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You may have noticed a little rain today, after a week or two of blazing sunshine. Why is this? I’d booked a day off work to go to the cricket. I usually try, in the course of a season, to get to a few grounds other than Grace Road. Trent Bridge is a particular favourite, [...]
