Category: Cricket

Bore Draw – NOT!!, MTWD Piece, Surrey v Middlesex Day 4, The Oval, 9 May 2009

This turned out to be one of the most exciting days of cricket I have ever witnessed.

It was one of those strange situations in which everything worked out for the best.

Janie and I were all dressed up / picniced up with no place to go that Saturday, as we had Day 4 test match tickets for a Lord’s match which had somehow managed to conclude in three days.

So we went to the Oval and saw a screamer of a Day Four County Championship day there instead.

We attributed the resulting MTWD piece to Daisy feat. Ged:

Daisy watching cricket at Lord’s on a subsequent cold feet, cold hands  day

Here is that Daisy Feat. Ged MTWD report: Bore Draw – NOT!! – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – Bore Draw Not

If you want to see the scorecard, which barely does justice to this extraordinary match – click here.

Anything Hughes Can Do (Ramps Can’t Do Better), MTWD Piece, Following Surrey v Middlesex and England v West Indies Remotely, 7 May 2009

We sometimes struggled to find reporters MTWD reporters for away matches, so ended up resorting to somewhat detached reports.

It seems that “Hippity volunteered” to report on this particular day, from his vantage point on the bed at the flat.

Hippity’s vantage point

Younger readers (or older readers with early stages of memory loss) might need to resort to this Wikipedia link to learn/remind themselves what Ceefax was.

It is sad to reflect on Phillip Hughes, who played such a huge part in that early part of Middlesex’s 2009 summer and who was so sadly cut down in his prime just five years later.

Over to Hippity: Anything Hughes Can Do (Ramps Can’t Do Better) – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – Anything Hughes Can Do (Ramps Can’t Do Better)

In case anyone was wondering about the England v West Indies match – click here for the scorecard from that one.

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I Do Declare, MTWD Piece, Middlesex v Glamorgan Day 3, Lord’s, 24 April 2009

I took Michael Mainelli to Lord’s on Day Three of this  match, having taken Charley on Day One.

Hippity wrote up Day Three, having apparently jumped into my picnic bag in a fit of pique:

I Do Declare: Middlesex v Glamorgan Day 3 – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – I Do Declare: Middlesex v Glamorgan Day 3.

Middlesex CCC Season Is Up And Running, MTWD Piece, Middlesex v Glamorgan Day One at Lord’s, 22 April 2009

My article on MTWD tells the tale of the day – the first day of the county championship season for Middlesex.

MIDDLESEX CCC SEASON IS UP AND RUNNING – click here.

You get Charley The Gent and a passing mention of Nigel “Father Barry”, together with both of the lads’ wives with pseudonyms long since forgotten.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – MIDDLESEX CCC SEASON IS UP AND RUNNING

If you want to know what happened in the match, click here for the scorecard.

You can have various takes on a day of cricket. King Cricket, who takes a particular interest in rotund cricketers, wrote up the same day thus – click here.

Even more strangely, it seems that King Cricket published, that very same day, a short piece about Hippity and his cricket ball – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to King Cricket, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

A cricket ball in an unusual place

Stranger still, King Cricket published an abridged version of the MTWD piece at a (by King Cricket standards) lightening pace – i.e. within a calendar month – click here for King Cricket’s Middlesex v Glamorgan match report.

Just in case anything ever happens to King Cricket, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex v Glamorgan match report

Forums Galore, MTWD Piece, 13 April 2009

Just ahead of the 2009 season, I wrote a piece for Middlesex Till We Die (MTWD) about other cricket on-line forums:

Forums Galore – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – Forums Galore

 

Cricket Lovely Cricket? by Lawrence Booth, MTWD Book Review, 11 April 2009

As a warm up to the new season I read a book and wrote the following book review for Middlesex Till We Die (MTWD):

Cricket Lovely Cricket? by Lawrence Booth – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to MTWD, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

Middlesex till we die – Cricket Lovely Cricket_ by Lawrence Booth

Seaxe Club AGM 31 March 2009 & Middlesex AGM 7 April 2009

My diary says I went to both of these events and I believe it.

The Middlesex Till We Die website was silent on these matters, at least in the features section.

But we did have a discussion at least about the Middlesex AGM – click here for it.

If anything ever happens to that link, here’s a scrape of it.

The official site link is long gone. So we’ll probably never again know exactly what passed.

Middlesex Till We Die (MTWD) Beer Drinkers Guide Shout Out For Updates, 22 March 2009 & Consultation On Site Rules 30 March 2009

Thirsty lot, Middlesex CCC supporters/Middlesex Till We Die (MTWD) readers. I wrote a short shout out to the faithful to help update a guide to the local hostelries around Lord’s.

You can read that piece by clicking here.

If anything ever happens to Sportnetwork/MTWD, you can read a scrape of that piece by clicking here.

Undisciplined lot at times, so we needed to review the rules at that time. I wrote a consultation note about site rules and discipline, again by way of a shout out.

Click here for the piece about discipline.

If anything ever happens to Sportnetwork/MTWD, you can read a scrape of that piece here.

I’m going to guess that we had more feedback about beer than we did about rules.

A Cricket Bat At Rumtek Monastery, King Cricket Piece, Published 17 March 2009

This was the second piece of mine published on King Cricket.

It supports one of King Cricket’s themes – cricket equipment in unusual places.

The centrepiece of the article is a photograph I took of a monk at Rumtek Monastery in Sikhim who was wielding a cricket bat in our direction when Janie and I visited the place in 2005.

A cricket bat at Rumtek monastery – King Cricket – click here.

Just in case anything ever happens to King Cricket, I have scraped the piece to Ogblog – only click the link below if the link above doesn’t work:

A cricket bat at Rumtek monastery

Middlesex CCC Forum, Lord’s Long Room, 4 March 2009

An unusual timing and location for the Middlesex pre-season forum in 2009.

Timing – about a month before the AGM rather than as part of it.

Location – the Long Room, nach.

Barmy Kev reported on it at length on MTWD and I chimed in with some comments – otherwise, in truth, the detail might have been lost to my memory completely – I only vaguely recalled it even when I read the following piece:

Phil Good Factor At Forum – click here.

I’m not sure whether I made it to the Seaxe Club AGM (31 March) or the actual MCCC AGM (7 April) that year. I don’t recall them and I can see that I did a shout out to other MTWDniks such as Barmy Kev (unsuccessfully) to try to get cover for those.