Thirty four years ago today, I was a 10 year-old member of Chelmsford Cricket Club Colts section, and excited at the possibility of boarding the Colts’ team bus at Chelmer Park, for our ‘away-day’ at The Oval. We were going to see the second day’s play of Tony Greig’s England versus the West Indies in the [...]
On this day, 12th August, two London County Greats, WG Grace and WL (Billy) Murdoch made cricketing history. Wisden confirms that on August 12th, 1886, WG Grace scored the highest-ever Test score by an England batsman, when he made 170 at The Oval versus Australia. This trumped his previous Test best of 152, which he made [...]
I enjoyed one of life’s great privileges today – I went to Lord’s Cricket Ground and saw Cricket being played on a glorious summer’s day. To add to my enjoyment, I was in the company of two friends who were experiencing the very same pleasure for the first time in their lives. One of them, [...]
