No alcohol allowed

Jun. 3 | Spot the missing part in this statement.. “A hot summer’s night spent watching the most traditional English game with a sumptuous picnic” ALCOHOL…Wine, Pimms, Magners, Gin & Tonic….BEER! Here we were in the Garden of...

Never look a Whitgift horse in the mouth

May. 22 | Two stories have dominated domestic cricket this week both relevant to my choice of heading down to Whitgift School for the Clydesdale Bank CB40 game between Surrey and Hampshire. On Thursday as Surrey took on Essex in the LV County Championship on the...

We all believe in Unicorns

May. 16 | I once played cricket at Sir Richard Branson’s house. Honestly guv. He has a cricket pitch on his estate in Kidlington complete with a pavilion styled like a Hawaiian beach cottage. I even smacked the ball around a bit too, scoring 33 before...

The waiting is over

Apr. 2 | WORLD CUP FINAL – PREVIEW We’re there – we’ve made it to the end of the World’s longest competition. Granted there’s been some dull group games but on the whole I think it’s been a cracking tournament. And actually it couldn’t...

The first semi final is decided

Mar. 24 | The first semi final is decided And they don’t really get bigger than this one. It’s Pakistan versus India on which will take place on Wednesday 30th March in Mohali. To say there’s no love lost between these two sides might be somewhat understating...

World Cup Cricket – Quarter Final Preview 1

Mar. 22 | World Cup: The Business End: Quarter Finals Preview (1) You thought they’d never end but they have. The group stages of the World Cup and we’re into the knockout stages. The ICC have pretty much got their way, the format was designed so that...

Day 27 – The saviours of 50 over cricket

Mar. 19 | England have done it again. They were involved in absolute thriller today in their must win game against the West Indies in Chennai. After winning the toss and electing to bat on what looked like a pretty good Chennai pitch, they got off to a steady...

World Cup Day 26 – Too easy Sheila

Mar. 16 | The Aussies convincingly dealt with Canada earlier beating them by 7 wickets in the group A match in Bangalore. Canada won the toss and sensibly chose to bat first on a pretty good deck – they were bowled out for a pretty respectable 211 in the 46th...

World Cup Day 24 – A wonderful display of compassion

Mar. 14 | World Cup Day 24 A wonderful display of compassion from The Ball is Round management meant that TBIR cricket correspondent yours truly was given the weekend off. Here’s a brief round up of what happened over the weekend (days 22 and 23) and today –...

World Cup Day 21 – A lesson in how to make life difficult for yourself

Mar. 12 | So going into today, all we had to do was beat Bangladesh and we were into the quarter finals. Of course, England have a new role in the World Cup, the hired entertainment so naturally we conspired to lose by 2 wickets. In pursuit of England’s modest...