Posts tagged with ‘county championship’

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May 19, 2011

Graham Napier goes mental against Surrey

Potential is a wonderful thing, but it’s downside is that it often remains that when it ought to be morphing into “achievement”. Graham Napier is one such cricketer who has long been held to have potential without ever taking it to the top level. Today, he showed it again.

May 18, 2011

Lancashire enjoy the Roses but find a thorn

Lancashire have had a good day on the pitch and a very bad one off it.

May 11, 2011

Somerset are formidable again

To say that the start of the season was disappointing would be an understatement – for Somerset it was traumatic. Two county championship matches, two innings defeats, 50 all out whilst following on against Warwickshire. Not good. But, since then they’ve won six in a row and counting.

April 25, 2011

Luke Wells makes a splash

A fourth innings run chase is a pretty good time to make your mark for the first time at any level of cricket. Having been thrashed by Lancashire in their opening fixture, as is their habit against the Red Rose, Sussex were staring down the barrel again at Chester-le-Street, facing a target of 309 and without key batsmen like Mike Yardy, Matt Prior and Luke Wright.

March 22, 2011

ECB puts Twenty20 on a diet

The reduction in the Twenty20 program to 10 matches instead of 16 at the group stage further hints at a sudden and unexplained outbreak of sanity amongst the county set.

April 28, 2010

Real Surrey Projekt: a slow start

I’ll be tracking the progress of Chris Adams’ Real Surrey Projekt this summer. Here’s some thoughts on a slow start to the season.

April 26, 2010

Re-inventing the wheel

Last year the ECB decided that the Pro40 had to go, yet this year Sussex are defending their title even though the competition no longer exists. Only at the ECB.

April 19, 2010

A website re-imagined

Like a half-finished Brian Wilson recording, the previous design incarnation of this site failed to live up to my notoriously fussy standards. So now a new design sweeps in like the proverbial new broom ahead of some exciting goings-on this summer.

October 21, 2009

Chawla signs for Surrey

Piyush Chawla will be Surrey’s overseas player for 2010, as they continue to try and hoover up the better county performers from last season.

October 19, 2009

Where will Hoggard go?

With Hoggy being released by Yorkshire, there will be a queue of counties all jostling each other to sign him up for 2010. Leicestershire have declared their interest, and now Kent have followed suit. In truth, there are probably 14 others who would love to have an experienced former England seamer on their books, especially one who is only 32.

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