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Here's a timely one with the Ashes series in Australia about to kick off (tonight, in fact) and all England supporters filled with a mix...

You might recall, if you're inclined to notice obscure cricketing milestones, some headlines a few years back about England's Joe Ro...

I have two for you today - now in theory I could parlay that into two posts in a pathetic and transparent bid to bump the blog stats up, pos...

I was inspired by my mention of going to school in West Bridgford in the early 1980s to try and find the two schools I went to. We were onl...

Yes, it's esoteric cricket records and factoids time again. Is that in tribute to the climactic stages of the 2023 Cricket World Cup ...

A sporting one for you now - here's surprise Open Championship winner Brian Harman and former Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting ...

During the vast aeons of time that (it seemed) Australian opener Usman Khawaja was batting during the first Test match of the current Ashes...

A couple of updates on topics of regular interest (yes, all right, of interest to me anyway): firstly, following the review of Killing Miste...

It's been delightful, over the past few weekends, as COVID-19 lockdown restrictions ease, to be able to meet up with extended family aga...

I was prompted by the recent resumption of near-normal Test cricket in New Zealand, and in particular by the record-breaking feats of Kane ...

It's nice to see poor old Jeremy Hunt finally catching a break and someone else stepping into the breach to get called a cunt on bro...

I recall a question being asked on some cricket forum or other, possibly this one : who is the worst best player in Test history? In other w...

While I was retrieving the GPX info for the Sugar Loaf walk off my phone I noticed that there was another file on there. This one turned ou...

Here's one in commemoration of the Ashes series which kicked off yesterday: England opener Rory Burns and his (I think) relatively newly...

I know there's much speculation about the composition of the squad for the upcoming Ashes series in Australia, and England have a few he...

A few things that caught my eye in the last couple of weeks because they put me in mind of previous blog posts. Basically where Electric Hal...

Couple of follow-up notes on previous posts: It appears that virginity auctions are still a thing, or at least still a thing that people ...

Further additions to the list referred to in this recent post : in addition to Shoaib Malik and Alastair Cook's efforts in Abu Dhabi, b...

The recently-concluded Pakistan-England series in the United Arab Emirates yielded up, as well as some exciting cricket and a feeling that E...

One cricket stat that seems to have slipped under my radar is the remarkable achievement of Pakistan's Misbah-ul-Haq in Abu Dhabi in ...