Nottinghamshire v Somerset, Trent Bridge, County Championship, 20th April 2012 I think it was the poet Stevie Smith who once wrote … “Why does it only rain when I go to Trent Bridge? It does not. I only go to Trent Bridge when I think it is going to rain.” Well, not quite. My choices [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club’
Dozing Demons And A Twisted Ankle (Notts v Somerset)
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, James Taylor, Marcus Trescothick, Nick Compton, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Peter Trego, Rain, Somerset County Cricket Club, Steve Kirby, Stevie Smith, Trent Bridge on April 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Vale : Taylor Minissimus
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, James Taylor, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club on December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So, farewell then, James Taylor, the man who has made more appearances on this blog than any other. But no longer. Not dead, fortunately, but he has passed out from the sight of the faithful at Grace Road by – as long anticipated on this blog and elsewhere – signing for Nottinghamshire with one year [...]
Polite, Refined, Beautiful
Posted in Advertising, Cricket, Media, Sport, This England, tagged Brian Bolus, Cricket, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Weddings on August 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
More from Trent Bridge. Polite, Refined, Beautiful. That’s cricket. It’s also your wedding at Trent Bridge. To make your wedding even more polite, refined and beautiful, I understand that – for a small extra charge - onetime Notts opener Brian Bolus is available to act as the Master of Ceremonies.
Taylor Shines On Debut
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Charlie Fox, Cricket, Durham County Cricket Club, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Rob Taylor on August 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Nottinghamshire v Durham, County Championship, Trent Bridge, 23 August 2011 The time delay that operates on this blog means that I’m unable to comment in detail on Leicestershire’s WELL DESERVED TRIUMPH! in the 20/20 Finals yesterday. But I wonder whether it was the threat of being replaced by a worm, as suggested in my last [...]
Varying Degrees of Absurdity at Trent Bridge
Posted in Atheism, Cricket, Philosophy, Religion, Sport, This England, Trains, tagged Absurdity, Adam Lyth, Albert Camus, Cricket, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Trent Bridge, Yorkshire County Cricket Club on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire, Trent Bridge, County Championship, 7th May 2011 My daughter, who is studying Camus at school, asked me the other day if I could define The Absurd for her. I failed, but I might have been able to give her a better idea by taking her with me to Trent Bridge on Saturday. (Camus was [...]
Smokers Gather Here : Signage at Trent Bridge
Posted in Cricket, Sport, This England, tagged Cricket, Eric Gill, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Signs, Trent Bridge on September 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
One of the unchanging aspects of Trent Bridge, that many have remarked on before and I was remarking on the other day, is its friendliness. The Oval, for instance, is many things but not, I think, friendly. The pavilion there is guarded by bouncers in dicky bows : the distinguished but cosy pavilion at Trent Bridge has [...]
Trent Bridge : those who care for cricket cannot escape
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Cricket, Sport, tagged Alex Hales, Ali Brown, Cricket, Lancashire County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Trent Bridge on August 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nottinghamshire v Lancashire, Trent Bridge, County Championship (day 4), 27 August 2010 “No one thinks about Nottinghamshire cricket topically nor in terms of a single year. There is an inescapable feeling of tradition about Trent Bridge that those who care for cricket cannot escape.” – John Arlott, 1970. I decided to give Grace Road a [...]
I think it’s all over (sometimes)
Posted in Cricket, Nature, Sport, Trees, tagged Cricket, Gloom, Leicestershire, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Market Harborough CC, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Trees on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I watched two (or part of two) limited over matches. Market Harborough v Loughborough on Saturday and Leicestershire v Nottinghamshire on Sunday. The county game was the first match of this season’s new competition, a sort of half-hearted revival of the old John Player League. It’s played over 40 overs on Sundays and Bank Holidays, which is sensible [...]
Leicestershire v Nottinghamshire, 19 May 2009
Posted in Cricket, Media, Newspapers, Sport, tagged Cricket, Duckworth-Lewis method, Guardian, Leicestershire, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Newspapers, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m cheating here. I couldn’t take time off work, so didn’t get to the match. Pleased, however, to see in my morning Guardian a scorecard saying that Leicester had won (according to the D/L method). Less pleased to read, a little later in the sports section, that Patel had sent a message to the selectors [...]
