This from Elizabeth updates that County clubs have spoken up. That someone thought it was ok to try and apply the gagging in the first place speaks of the undeniable disconnect with county cricket.
Could be watching some cricket next Friday.
Food for thought!
Here’s a bit of love for DevonCCC & The National Counties including the fixture card. Enjoy the championship games in July & August 🙌👏
Oh yes! Love Arundel, cricketing heaven. 😃
Oh hello, like the look of this. Red ball international cricket at Arundel. 😍
The naivety of some to believe that it was about anything else other than money.
I like how every two years at a T20 World Cup everyone goes “wow the associate cricket teams are much better than we thought, we should do more to assist their development and grow the global game” and then nothing changes
A cricket World Cup? Not another one !
Brian Lara was part of a question on today's episode of Pointless. Just explained to Mrs C, with gusto, how watching Lara was pure theatre, an absolute rollercoaster of brutality.
Worth paying good money to watch.
Watched a couple of games there. Lovely location. Lyndhurst is a most pleasant town too, just a short walk from the ground.
I've discovered there's a New Zealand pro cricketer called Peter Younghusband.
Marvellous name 😎 that's all.
Thanks 👍
I see there's 5 penalty runs on the England scorecard. What's happened?
As he's announced his retirement from international cricket here's some re-gurgitated blogging from a couple of years ago on Usman Khawaja and the quality of persistence:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2023/10/06/s...
They also have a penchant for playing Crazy Crazy Nights by Kiss, which always makes my day. 😃
Cant believe that song was never a hit in the US.
Simon Kerrigan
2025 was another enjoyable year of spectating and blogging. Thanks to everyone who read my blogging etc. Here's my favourite shots of the year:
Zak Crawley has now played more tests than the late Robin Smith. That tells you everything about England selection in the present day and in the mid 1990's.
Indeed.
Robin Smith was my childhood hero and I wanted to square cut the ball like he did. Absolutely gutted.
I am old enough to remember hundreds of county players being forced to play with a Kookaburra ball for weeks on end, while the Test side was in action at the same time and not using one.
Maybe it was a fever dream? Must have been.
Imagine Surrey scoring 800+ and a bowler going for 200+?
Bad dream!
England to prepare with pink golf balls ahead of day-night Brisbane Test.
Neither are the Australian bowlers though. A serious flaw in England's style of play is that the opposition bowlers too often remain fresh even if England have put up a reasonable total.
No doubt it's the County Championship's fault again.
New blogging: myself and Mrs C were in Bath a couple of weeks ago so we paid a visit to the Rec for some reminiscing on the ground.
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/in-memoriam-again-bath-recreation-ground/
New blogging: everyone has their favourite format of cricket. Personally, my favourite is a form rather than a format. A pithy piece on the beauties of evening cricket:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/s...
New blogging: everyone has their favourite format of cricket. Personally, my favourite is a form rather than a format. A pithy piece on the beauties of evening cricket:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/s...
New blogging: I've decided to not renew my Hampshire membership next year. Because what's the point?! Some musings on memberships and the direction of travel in pro sport.
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/s...
Evening all. Now for something, slightly, different: a review of the very interesting cricket book The Faintest of Tickles. Well worth a read:
yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/t...
Good news for the England men. If they get whumped again tomorrow the first tee of the golf course next to the Rose Bowl is about a ten minute walk from the dressing room. 👍
