Cricket Corner

[JSngry]

So I'm tuning in early toe The Hundred Final and there's something going on like a Super Bowl halftime show on a smaller scale and I don't mean that as a compliment? Zara Larsson? A lot of women rubbing their asses?

Let's get on to the game please!

[mjazzg]

I'd even forgotten it was on today 

[JSngry]

Big crowd there!

[mjazzg]

One of the biggest cricket grounds too. I'm there for a day of a Test Match three weeks today, will be packed again

[JSngry]

Enjoy!

[Royal Oak]

Well, the English Cricket season started today. It almost always starts under grey skies, in barely double-figure temperatures, with gloomy fielders wearing two jumpers. Pensioners, schoolchildren and the unemployed sit huddled in coats and hats in near empty stands. 

Today however, the weather is unseasonably glorious in the UK, and is forecast to remain so for a week or more yet. I shall be mooching to Old Trafford next weekend to use my first Lancashire CCC membership for 35 years.

[Rabshakeh]

20 minutes ago, Royal Oak said:

Well, the English Cricket season started today. It almost always starts under grey skies, in barely double-figure temperatures, with gloomy fielders wearing two jumpers. Pensioners, schoolchildren and the unemployed sit huddled in coats and hats in near empty stands. 

Today however, the weather is unseasonably glorious in the UK, and is forecast to remain so for a week or more yet. I shall be mooching to Old Trafford next weekend to use my first Lancashire CCC membership for 35 years.

Is there cricket at Old Trafford too?

[mjazzg]

10 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Is there cricket at Old Trafford too?

Yes, but not at the self-styled "The Theatre of Dreams" complete with internal waterfall. But next door.

Edited April 5 by mjazzg

[Rabshakeh]

22 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Yes, but not at the self-styled "The Theatre of Dreams" complete with internal waterfall. But next door.

Hopefully they can get their own waterfall too, soon. 

[adh1907]

Hoping to visit Lords tomorrow to see Lancashire beat Middlesex! Sunny day forecast and only a fiver to get in. Shame there’s no Jimmy bowling. 
 

Anthony 

PS RIP Peter Lever

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, adh1907 said:

Hoping to visit Lords tomorrow to see Lancashire beat Middlesex! Sunny day forecast and only a fiver to get in. Shame there’s no Jimmy bowling. 
 

Anthony 

PS RIP Peter Lever

I missed the news about Lever. He was a feature of my early teenage cricket watching on TV, that run up.

[Royal Oak]

17 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I missed the news about Lever. He was a feature of my early teenage cricket watching on TV, that run up.

He was before my time, although when I was browsing Cricinfo about him, I see he turned out for Lancs in a 1983 NatWest trophy game. I wondered if I saw him, but now on reflection, I realise I'd have been at school that day.

10 full test internationals on show that day - Ian Botham, Viv Richards, Joel Garner, Clive Lloyd, David Lloyd, Vic Marks, Graeme Fowler, Frank Hayes, Mike Watkinson and Peter Lever.  Despite the quality on show, Lancs laboured to 163/6 off 60 overs, Somerset taking 53 overs to knock them off.

Edited April 6 by Royal Oak

[adh1907]

I saw him for Lancs against a touring Indian side at Old Trafford. From checking, it appears this was May 1974. I have the scorecard somewhere. Quite how I got off school for the day (dropped off by my parents), who knows! Nice weather for Manchester I recall. Lever was Agnew’s hero, I have heard him speak in awe of him. 

[Royal Oak]

Imagine watching four full uninterrupted days play, without a result. No wonder non-cricketing nations think it a strange game.

Edited Monday at 06:43 PM by Royal Oak

[JSngry]

Major League Cricket (T20) begins in the US on June 12. We'll be having plenty of matches in Grand Prairie, and I definitively plan on going to one, probably more. It's a great way to spend an evening!

https://www.majorleaguecricket.com/news/187

[adh1907]

2 hours ago, Royal Oak said:

Imagine watching four full uninterrupted days play, without a result. No wonder non-cricketing nations think it a strange game.

Middlesex Lancs at Lords. I enjoyed the fourth day, it was a close match. Amazing weather. Sunburnt in April. Nearly hit by a six, I lost sight of it in the sun and it clattered down nearby. 
 

[miles65]

I've got a 4 day ticket for Lancs vs. Middlesex at the real Old Trafford in September. Hoping to see Jimmy Anderson bowl.

[Royal Oak]

21 hours ago, adh1907 said:

Middlesex Lancs at Lords. I enjoyed the fourth day, it was a close match. Amazing weather. Sunburnt in April. Nearly hit by a six, I lost sight of it in the sun and it clattered down nearby. 
 

I thought we may sneak it until Wells was out. 

20 hours ago, miles65 said:

I've got a 4 day ticket for Lancs vs. Middlesex at the real Old Trafford in September. Hoping to see Jimmy Anderson bowl.

I may see you down there...

[Royal Oak]

A nice enough day at OT today. Cricket was mediocre, about 85% of the ground was unoccupied, and seats were hard. However, the atmosphere was pleasant, the sun shone bright until 1500, and the toilets were very clean.

Lancashire have decided that spectators can now mill around on the field during the tea interval, so I had a walk about for ten minutes.