Northants v Gloucestershire, County Ground Northampton, County Championship, Friday 25th May 2012 There was a pleasant piece about Wantage Road in The Guardian last week by Mike Selvey http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/may/23/northants-county-ground-cricket . He described it as “an airy but intimate ground, a proper county ground for county cricket without pretensions beyond its status or means” Which is about right (somehow the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Northamptonshire County Cricket Club’
Airy But Intimate (Northants v Gloucestershire)
Posted in Cricket, Sport, This England, tagged Cobblers, Cricket, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Mike Selvey, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Spontaneous Combustion on May 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
All’s Well That Ends Well-ish (Leicestershire v Northants)
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Josh Cobb, Lee Daggett, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Matthew Hoggard, Ned Eckersley, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Ronnie Sarwan, Wayne White on May 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Leicestershire v Northants, County Championship, Grace Road, Day 4, 12th May 2012 There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face … The classic shot of two batsmen leaving the pitch at the end of a game, being applauded off by the opposition and (though you can’t see this) getting a standing ovation [...]
“The Safety Of The Players Must Be Paramount” : A Story Without Words
Posted in Cricket, Sport, This England, tagged Alex Wharf, Cricket, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Michael Gough, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Rain, Umpires on May 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Leicestershire v Northants, Grace Road, County Championship, Day 2, 10 May 2012 Starring Michael Gough (the tall one with the umbrella) and Alex Wharf as “The Umpires” THE END
Asylum Seekers : Northants v Hampshire
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, David Willey, Hampshire County Cricket Club, Jack Brooks, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Rain, Ricardo, Snow, Thomas Octavius Prichard on May 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Northamptonshire v Hampshire, County Championship, County Ground Northampton, 3rd & 5th May 2012 I must be mad. I doubt whether there’s anyone who watches any amount of County Cricket who has not – at one time or another – had this thought. Cricket does drive some people mad, but those are generally the players, especially [...]
Making Hay While The Sun Don’t Shine (Northants v Kent & Leicestershire v Loughborough MCCU)
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Kent County Cricket Club, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Loughborough MCCU, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Ronnie Sarwan, Spring on April 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Northamptonshire v Kent, County Ground, County Championship, 12th April Leicestershire v Loughborough MCCU, Loughborough, 14th April Well, here we are on the 15th of April with – for most counties – a ninth of the County Championship over already. By the end of May half of it will be gone. I had been a little concerned that [...]
Cheerio, Cheerio, Cheerio!
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Autumn, Cricket, James Taylor, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Middlesex County Cricket Club, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club on September 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leicestershire v Middlesex, Grace Road, County Championship, 14-15 September 2011 It’s an indication of how quickly the darkness of Autumn seems to descend that although this, the last match of the county season, only took place a week ago it seems to belong to another season altogether. My expectation when I booked the time off was that [...]
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 »
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 [...]
From Major to Minor : Desborough C.C.
Posted in Animals, Cricket, Nature, Sport, This England, tagged Cricket, Desborough, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club on August 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Northamptonshire 2nd XI v Leicestershire 2nd XI, Desborough, 29th June 2011 Not the most urgent news regarding Leicestershire cricket this weekend, but for the record, and before the details vanish from my memory completely, the first of two minor matches I attended earlier in the season (though it’s the grounds, rather than the games, that [...]
Sunday Afternoon in the Park
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Jack Brooks, Kenneth Clarke, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Leicestershire v Northamptonshire, CB40, Sunday 24th July 2011 A match between two sides whose minds could be forgiven for being elsewhere. Northants are still in contention in this competition, but must be more concerned about their position at the top of Division 2 of the Championship. Leicestershire have only a theoretical interest in the CB40, [...]
A Welcome to the Indian Tourists from Kettering in 1932
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Fred Bakewell, Indian Cricket, Joginder Singh, Kettering, Motoring, Northamptonshire County Cricket Club, Reggie Northway, Unfortunate accidents, Vallance Jupp on July 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As the Indians arrive on our shores for their brief visit, let us glance back to 1932, when the first Indian side to play a Test Match in England (there had been an earlier tour in 1911) dropped in at Kettering to play Northamptonshire from the 4th to the 7th of what appears to have [...]
