Leicestershire v Surrey, CB40, Grace Road, 21st August 2011 “Q. Which counties do you least like visiting? A. Leicester because the away dressing room is tiny and the stairs are steep and particularly annoying.” – James Harris in September’s Cricketer The stairs are steep? Perhaps we should install a Stannah Stairlift for you? Elsewhere in this month’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Surrey County Cricket Club’
Lowly Worms Crushed Underfoot
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Charlie Fox, Cricket, Jason Roy, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Lowly Worm, Rory Hamilton-Brown, Surrey County Cricket Club, Zafar Ansari on August 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Hail the Conquering Heroes Come and Go : Pietersen and Ansari at Fenner’s
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cambridge University, Cricket, Kevin Pietersen, Surrey County Cricket Club, Zafar Ansari on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cambridge MCCU v Surrey, Fenner’s, Wednesday 11th May 2011 It isn’t often that this blog attends a match taking place in front of the eyes of the world’s press (in this case, a small camera crew from what, I think, was probably Look East (or whatever it’s called these days) – and Derek Pringle, of the [...]
Storm Clouds gather over Grace Road as Hoggard Strikes
Posted in Arts, Cricket, Music, Sport, tagged Cricket, Culture, David Smith, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Mark Ramprakash, Matthew Hoggard, Neil Davidson, Surrey County Cricket Club on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Leicestershire v Surrey, Grace Road, County Championship, day 1 (24 August) Storm clouds gathering – as Hoggard strikes (to remove one of the Surrey openers) – According to most sources – the Guardian, for instance - Chairman Must Go Says Hoggard – and Cricinfo, which suggested that Red Hoggo was planning a sitdown protest on the [...]
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 [...]
A thought from Charles Haddon Spurgeon and some excesses at the Oval
Posted in Baptists, Cricket, Drink, Pubs, Religion, Sport, This England, Trains, tagged Baptists, Binge-drinking, C.H. Spurgeon, Dissent, Excess, Hubris, Jacques du Toit, James Taylor, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Murals, Oval, Paul Nixon, Stag nights, Surrey County Cricket Club, Will Jefferson on June 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Surrey v Leicestershire, The Oval, County Championship, Friday 4th June Not, perhaps, a full report, but a few vignettes. The Oval tube station has a very pleasing aspect – art deco uplighters on the escalator, “classical” music played in the entrance hall (presumably to soothe the savage breasts that might otherwise congregate there and [...]
Send in the clowns : Leicestershire v Surrey at the Oval, 4th June
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Oval, Rory Hamilton-Brown, Stag nights, Surrey County Cricket Club on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To the Oval today, to watch Leicestershire putting “Cricket’s answer to Manchester United” to the sword, with some excellent performances from Jefferson, Taylor and Du Toit. A full report to follow, possibly. An incidental pleasure was watching Surrey (in their new T20 kit and under the direction of their new captain Rory Hamilton-Brown – he’s [...]
Leicestershire v Surrey, County Championship, Kennington Oval 31st July
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Charlie Chuck, Cricket, James Taylor, Leicestershire, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, London, Oval, Surrey, Surrey County Cricket Club on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seems like a long time ago now, as I sit listening to the rain fall, not watching the cricket and not listening to TMS, but yesterday I enjoyed a balmy day’s cricket at the Oval, where Leicestershire were playing Surrey. I didn’t watch anywhere near as much cricket when I lived in London as I [...]
Leicestershire v Surrey, Grace Road, 19th June
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Boeta Dippenaar, Chris Jordan, Cricket, H.D. Ackerman, Leicestershire, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Surrey County Cricket Club on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For my 50th post, it’s back to the cricket. Bit of a day for the purist this one, or the Leicestershire partisan. At the beginning of the day Leicestershire were 181-2 in their second innings, 17 ahead of Surrey. Our two Kolpaks, Ackerman and Dipenaar then batted on through til the late afternoon, both making [...]
Leicestershire second XI v Surrey second XI, Grace Road, 22 May 2009
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Chris Jordan, Cricket, Josh Cobb, Leicestershire, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Surrey County Cricket Club on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new experience for me today (or technically yesterday) - my first second XI match. Leicestershire used to play their reserve team matches at Hinckley : never got to that ground (though I think I went past it on my way to watch Poppies playing the Knitters at football in their new IKEA-style stadium). Now though [...]
